The University of Toronto in Canada wants staff to use alternative pronouns, and has been backed by legislation.
Important Debate Terms
Freedom of speech: The right to express any opinions without censorship or restraint
Gender Pronouns: The pronoun in which someone refers to themselves as
Transgender: Someone who believes their gender does not correspond with their birth sex
On the Side Against Pronoun Legislation
Jordan Bernt Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto.
He believes in the freedom of speech and is against legislation that determines what words he and others are allowed to use
The values, or what is accepted by culture, is increasingly moving towards accepting the lgbt
This can be seen in the graph below
The virtues of the argument include common sense, which is also a commonplace among the viewers who share this view
“Kindness” is the term social justice warriors use when they want to control what other peoplle think or say
Jordan Peterson
On the Side For Pronoun Legislation
Pete Peet identifies as non-binary and is a New Zealand citizen with a passport using an unspecified gender. He is also a professor of physics at the University of Toronto
Kindness
A.W. Peet takes the emotional route to get his point across
He urges everyone to be kind and that it is just a basic human courtesy to call someone by their pronoun
He then goes on to suggest, “it’s not that hard to put people’s pronouns in your phone”. When he can’t remember what the pronoun is, Peet will just look it up in his phone
This can be described as “virtue signaling”, by trying to show the audience that he morally correct.
Since his argument is based on morals, that directly correlates with people’s feelings, and people want to feel good, so this is a commonplace among the audience that supports Peet.
The commonplace is high morals, and this would show their virtues are morally correct, but not everyone has the same definition for morals
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