In a video recently, Jordan Peterson the altruist and collectivist, offered that enlightened self-interest is the same as living a life of self-denial and service to others.
Actually, it is the other way around. When one is an egoist and individualist, one announces that pursing one’s own interests are one’s primary (not sole ethical obligation) moral obligation. But self-interest is best served when the goals are self-realizing, serving God and creating love and cosmos in the world.
This is not so much a life of service and self-sacrifice in serving others, but individuators, if the majority of adults in a free country, will be reasonable enough and temperate enough to compromise with neighbors, usually working out disputes to most everyone’s satisfaction.
Paradoxically and perhaps the only successful way to serve others occurs as adults maverize as enlightened self-actualizers.
Sorry, Jordan. Your insights amaze, but your conclusions suck.
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