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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (8 children)

He isn't free to leave the profession because part of his con is that he is using his professional status when he writes something or says something as a psychologist.

His worth as a propagandist is that he can attach that professional status to his messages, if it's "disgraced" psychologist, or "struck off" psychologist then it has less impact because he has been found to have broken his professional conduct to the point where he lost the title.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have no high regard for the guy, but are you seriously, like seriously seriously, trying to tell people that Jordan Peterson depends on his professional title for... literally anything?

Are you saying that without it, he will lose a non-trivial amount of... anything?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He won't lose out on his current game as people watch him already, but when he wants to write a book and say J. Peterson, psychologist he won't be able to and that is a selling point for books and being taken seriously.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So if the argument were about whether a license was important, in the general case, as a selling pointl for books, I would have no choice but to concede.

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