Dr. Jordan Peterson, the right-leaning Canadian psychologist and professor, recently appeared on FOX News to discuss the ‘Daniel Penny Effect.’ This is the idea that people will be less likely to help another person in need for fear that they will end up in trouble. No good deed goes unpunished, as the old saying goes.
Peterson suggests that the heart of this problem is the left’s tendency to treat criminals as victims instead of actual crime victims.
FOX News has details:
Jordan Peterson breaks down ‘Daniel Penny Effect,’ torches liberal mindset of treating criminals as ‘victims’Author and psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson analyzed the influence of the “Daniel Penny Effect” on people’s willingness to put themselves at risk to help others following Penny being found not guilty in New York.”I think that’s a good example of someone acting in accordance with his character,” Peterson said of Daniel Penny, a 26-year-old Marine veteran and architecture student who confronted a 30-year-old homeless man with schizophrenia who barged onto the train shouting death threats while high on a type of synthetic marijuana known as K2.”It’s dangerous to interfere in a violent situation and you have to be a bit of a hero to do it and obviously Penny is in that category and that’s something that’s deeply characteristic of him,” Peterson told “The Ingraham Angle.”…Peterson spoke about the “Daniel Penny Effect” as a result of Penny’s treatment by the justice system in New York City. He argued that while he does not believe that people will act substantially different as a result of Penny’s case, he still said the the political left in the U.S. wrongly believes in the “victim status of criminals.”
Watch the segment below:
This recent tweet from Peterson is unrelated to his appearance on FOX News but seems appropriate to include here.
While all of Peterson’s points are well made, it is worth noting that when a woman was recently set on fire in the NYC subway by an illegal immigrant, there was no Daniel Penny type figure to step in and rescue her. Is there any wonder why?
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