June 24, 2025 - Dennis Prager Show
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| So first, let me state what I have often. | |
| If you can't make generalizations, you have no wisdom. | |
| That's the ability to make generalizations means the ability to make sense of life. | |
| It's a big deal. | |
| What is a generalization? | |
| It is when you see a pattern. | |
| I believe that I have a gift, and so I don't take credit for it. | |
| I'm calling it a gift. | |
| I see patterns based on a few examples. | |
| I'll give you one of the biggest examples in my life. | |
| In my twenties, I was on an airplane, and I was seated next to a woman who had a vegetarian meal. | |
| And wanting to make conversation, I just said to her, Are you a vegetarian? | |
| Not everyone having a vegetarian meal is vegetarian. | |
| And I asked her, yeah, she said yes. | |
| So my enjoyment in life is to find out why. | |
| Whatever the issue is, why? | |
| So I asked her, and may I ask why are you a vegetarian? | |
| She said, sure. | |
| Because we have no right to kill animals. | |
| And I and I remember thinking when I heard that part, that I respect that. | |
| We could live on non-animal food. | |
| So she says, we have no right to kill animals. | |
| But she didn't stop there. | |
| She said, who are we humans to say that we are more valuable than animals? | |
| I remember my shock. | |
| I was shocked. | |
| I had never heard that before. | |
| And so I said to her, well, wait a minute. | |
| I totally get it that we may not have a right to kill animals when we have an alternative. | |
| Source food, food, food source. | |
| But we're not more valuable than animals? | |
| Well, let me ask you a question. | |
| Thinking this was a rhetorical question. | |
| Which would you say first if both were drowning? | |
| A person or an animal. | |
| Or I think I specifically said a stranger, or your dog, or a dog, or your dog. | |
| I guess it was your dog. | |
| And there was no answer. | |
| She just was, she was just quiet. | |
| I said, I'm sorry, did you hear my question? | |
| She said, Yes, I'm thinking. | |
| And the skies opened up. | |
| And I thought, she's just thinking? | |
| You mean there's something to think about? | |
| Would you save a dog or a person first? | |
| And then what I did based on one example is I made a gigantic generalization that this woman represents vast numbers of people because we live in a secular age. | |
| And when you drop people being created in God's image, you end up with human animal equality. | |
| That's that's the based on one experience. | |
| One example, I made this gigantic generalization. | |
| I've turned out to be right. | |
| So the question isn't can you generalize from one or two examples? |
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