Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux - 1925 Philosophy Questions in 6 Minutes
Aired: 2011-06-06
Duration: 06:19


=== Would Politicians Tax the Rich? (05:22) ===

[00:00:02]  Who, in your opinion, is the enemy?
[00:00:06]  Willful ignorance.
[00:00:09]  Was 9-11 an inside job?
[00:00:12]  The US government was responsible for 9-11 through the admitted murder of millions of Muslims overseas and the continual propping up of Middle Eastern dictatorships.
[00:00:23]  I don't have the expertise to judge the science behind 9-11, and it doesn't really matter.
[00:00:28]  There are enough documented and admitted crimes that we don't need to chase after hard to prove ones.
[00:00:35]  Which strategy for liberty?
[00:00:39]  Peaceful parenting.
[00:00:42]  Do you need God to be good?
[00:00:45]  You cannot be good with God.
[00:00:47]  You can only be obedient, which is amoral at best.
[00:00:53]  Would you circumcise your son?
[00:00:55]  Hell no! And I would not cut the ear off my daughter either.
[00:01:00]  Would you like to see the government taxing the rich rather than the poor?
[00:01:04]  No amount of violence will solve our social problems.
[00:01:07]  It doesn't matter who the target is.
[00:01:11]  Is there a God? No.
[00:01:16]  What do you consider yourself politically?
[00:01:19]  Anti. Is it okay to jail children violently for experimenting with cannabis?
[00:01:27]  No, but somebody should probably try and help the parents who may not be doing that great a job.
[00:01:34]  If you had to pick one way to solve the national economic crisis, what would it be?
[00:01:39]  Politicians need to put the guns down.
[00:01:44]  If you had to describe love and its corollaries, compassion, justice, social justice, empathy, equality, etc., how would you do it?
[00:01:50]  Well, I've got a whole book called Real-Time Relationships, The Logic of Love, where I talk about this in more detail, but very briefly, love is our involuntary response to virtue if we ourselves are virtuous.
[00:02:03]  The best underdog of all time, the masses.
[00:02:09]  Who would you like to see win the 2012 presidential race?
[00:02:15]  The majority, i.e.
[00:02:16]  no politicians. Tattooing a minor is illegal in the US, do you think?
[00:02:23]  Piercing of minors should be illegal too.
[00:02:25]  I don't believe in laws. There are far better ways of protecting children than pointing guns at the parents.
[00:02:32]  Why am I so fucked up?
[00:02:36]  Because you were propagandized by the state, lied to by priests and politicians, and then exploited by the national debts of a vampiric democracy.
[00:02:51]  Bernard von Nothaus committed the crime of making a virtual currency, and the US government labels him an economic terrorist.
[00:02:58]  Who is the real terrorist?
[00:03:00]  False philosophers.
[00:03:02]  Mostly academics.
[00:03:06]  Who should be Ron Paul's VP candidate in 2012?
[00:03:10]  Sam Harris, to balance his religious fundamentalism.
[00:03:15]  Should our elected officials be subject to the same polygraph testing requirements as our police?
[00:03:20]  No, because there are much better liars.
[00:03:25]  Have you ever contributed to a Ron Paul money bomb?
[00:03:28]  No, I don't like the last syllable.
[00:03:32]  Would you grant anyone the power to deprive you of the things you need to survive?
[00:03:36]  No. If new technologies would arrive that would extend life indefinitely, provided that you would be rejuvenated to a healthy 20-30-something, would you do it?
[00:03:47]  Absolutely. Should products and services be provided at gunpoint?
[00:03:53]  No. Only self-defense.
[00:03:58]  Do you find anime girls to be sexy?
[00:04:00]  No, those Bambi eyes sort of creep me out.
[00:04:05]  What is the worst government program?
[00:04:08]  The law. What is your opinion of Bradley Manning?
[00:04:15]  He is a tragic and instructive sacrifice.
[00:04:19]  Please tell us who you would most likely support for the Republican nomination for president in 2012.
[00:04:26]  A hand puppet?
[00:04:28]  A ghost? Santa Claus?
[00:04:31]  Or Gandalf? Who's your favorite economist?
[00:04:36]  As long as he's not writing history, Murray Rothbard.
[00:04:39]  His historical writings are pretty dull to me.
[00:04:44]  Do you support a tax increase for Americans making over $250,000 a year?
[00:04:50]  Only if they are government employees, at which point the tax should be 100%.
[00:04:54]  What is your preferred web browser?
[00:04:58]  Chrome for speed. Firefox for stability.
[00:05:03]  What kind of anarchist are you?
[00:05:05]  The philosophical kind.
[00:05:10]  Who do you think won the first Republican presidential debate?
[00:05:13]  Everyone except the economically productive.
[00:05:17]  We need your help.
[00:05:19]  What topics should the Canadian Awareness Network now focus most of our resources on to create some real change in this country?

=== Opposing Force Initiation (00:54) ===

[00:05:25]  Child abuse. What is your favorite hot drink?
[00:05:30]  Mmm, a nice latte.
[00:05:34]  Is it a valid parental right to amputate healthy body parts from children?
[00:05:39]  No, and this includes their brains, i.e.
[00:05:43]  sending them to public school.
[00:05:46]  Or church. If you could work on a movie, which job would you most want?
[00:05:53]  Writer! It's the only one that matters!
[00:05:57]  Do you support the Patriot Act?
[00:05:59]  I oppose the initiation of force in all its forms.
[00:06:03]  Should you be arrested for dancing at the Jefferson Memorial?
[00:06:07]  Only if you're voguing.
[00:06:11]  Do you want genetically modified food on your plate?
[00:06:15]  I want me and the free market to decide what I eat, not the state.