By borisheir on Skatehive
Introduction While I’ve written previously on the subject of hierarchy, my recent exposure to the ideas of Jordan Peterson has inspired me to share some thoughts that seem to me complementary to his, coming to the subject from a somewhat different direction. Serious students of applied ethics will probably note that my analysis, while not as detailed and multi-dimensional as Mr. Peterson’s, is intentionally truncated in certain ways in order to “spotlight” those analytical features most useful in the practical application of my formulation. Most of my comments below are demonstrably “factual”, but the subject- matter requires me to also include certain “opinions” that I hold – by which I refer to beliefs that I have reason to believe are true, but which I have, as yet, not “proven” in the strict scientific sense of the word, such proof being beyond the scope of the resources that I have available. Let us begin this discussion by outlining some basic definitions, so we are literally tal