[barrysteve]

Manners and conduct existed before eugenics and continues to exist after eugenics. You can't pull one blighted moment in the 1920s as proof the whole idea is faulty.

There is little accuracy in your description of events. Peterson said we share serotonin with lobsters and it fuels a victory/defeat set of behaviours. If you drop the serotonin from his idea, it's no longer what he was talking about.

Your description falls to my mind as a velvet blanket to hide underneath from scary racist and nazi ideas that have nothing to do with Victorian era manners and metaphors about behaviour, expanded out of natural science.

You can't draw a 'perimeter' around the wind.

[kristopolous]

I genuinely appreciate your engagement but this exact thing is what I was trying to avoid as a time suck.

This type of literature has been a hobby of mine for years and recently I've noticed that I've given myself some expertise.

Hopefully I'll be motivated to write a more complete volume in the future. It takes many pages to build proper context here.

Thanks. I've read your reply but I'm trying to be judicious with my time these days.

[barrysteve]

I don't mean anything toward you, by my comment. We obviously come from different traditions, and I can't really ever find agreement with how your argument is structured. My conclusions could be wrong, but I won't ever really know without a lot more reading of your thought, which we're both not going to give time to do. I should be more careful how much meaning I load onto the word "you" in comments, I only meant to criticize your written beliefs.

Good luck.