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Feb. 25, 2019 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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Hey everybody, Stefan Molyneux from Free Domain.
Just a couple of superchats I missed from yesterday.
Some great questions.
The first from Devinson A. McFarlane said, Steph, I'm looking to get involved in politics.
What are your thoughts on civic nationalism?
I'm majoring in political science, paralegal studies advice.
Well, it's a brave decision and I wish you the very best.
I am glad that there are people out there who are making good decisions about getting into politics.
I know that's a bit of a change from my earlier arguments, but demographics has shortened the window in which we can save the West.
So here's what needs to happen for those of you involved in politics, or just in general.
So all these cultures are coming crashing in to the West.
Now some of them are coming because they like Western values, individualism, universal morality, and so on.
And some of them are coming just because they like free stuff.
The way that the West is being broken up and Balkanized is because a lot of the leftists and Marxists and you name it ists.
are undermining Western self-confidence by continually portraying white people, Christians, Europeans, and European derived societies as the great moral evildoers in history.
You know, the rapists, the colonialists, slave owners, slave takers, and so on.
This is all false.
If you really want to look at a slave trade, a slave trade in society that was unbelievably brutal, you can look at the blacks in Africa who captured the slaves and sold them to Arabs and to Muslims.
Muslims in general would castrate the male slaves that they brought over.
Only one in ten would survive that horrendous operation.
And this went on for a long, long time, far longer than the European slave trade.
The European slave trade lasted a very short amount of time, certainly in terms of blacks.
And only a couple hundred thousand, sort of 400,000 or so blacks were taken to America from Africa.
A hundred million or so were taken to The Middle East, and there aren't really any there anymore, so we all know what happened there.
So, you know, the Arab slave trade was about 200 times larger than the European slave trade.
Plus, of course, the Arabs took more white European slaves than white Europeans ever took black slaves to America.
Millions of white slaves were taken.
In fact, it got so bad during the Dark Ages.
The Dark Ages had a lot to do with Muslim invasion and conquest and control, particularly of the sea lanes, that it became hard for Europeans to live near the sea because They would constantly be raided by slave ships from the Middle East or the Arabian countries or Muslim countries.
And so, yeah, if you want to start talking about slavery, you can talk about the blacks in Africa who had a robust slave trade.
And you can talk about the Muslims.
But, of course, they don't want to focus on that because there's no money in that.
There's no particular guilt or self-remorse or anything like that.
Nobody's going to the Muslims to say where are our reparations for a slave trade that went on and was much more brutal, went on for far longer, was much more brutal than European slave trade and so on.
And so for the people who are coming to the West there may be an impulse for reasons of political power and undermining the West to To dismiss the West, to oppose the West.
And I'm engaged in these battles on Twitter.
You should follow me, really, on... at Stephan Molyneux.
I'm engaged in these battles a lot on Twitter.
So, for instance, there's this falsehood that Churchill starved millions of Indians to death.
Right?
I mean, Indians from India, so on.
It's all false, right?
And one of the clues is that this occurred during World War II.
So there was some terrible weather, of course, bad crop failures.
Indians ate their seed crops and then got really hungry.
It was in the Bengal region, I believe.
And there was some frustration from Churchill for sure.
He was in the middle of fighting a war against the National Socialism and making one of the worst devil's bargains in history, which was allying with the Soviet Communists under Stalin.
But anyway, he did try and redirect ships that were desperately needed for the war theater to bring food to India.
And he did try and save, but of course, you know, there was a lot of corruption in India as there still is today.
And a lot of the bureaucrats in India, the Indian bureaucrats, not the white ones, stole the food, sold it on the black market.
It didn't get to the people.
And why it is the responsibility of Churchill to feed the Indians is utterly beyond me.
But he didn't go in and personally eat everyone's food and prevent them from... I shouldn't laugh, but I mean, so ludicrous.
Churchill starved millions of Indians.
Like, nope!
Indians are responsible for feeding themselves.
And the British came to their aid when there was bad weather and crop failures and bureaucratic corruption and so on.
And he did send ships to India.
But, so just, you know, Churchill, not a perfect guy, don't get me wrong, but all the Churchill haters will now swarm the comments, but it is, you just have to push back hard.
You know, whites, European whites, Christians and so on, ended slavery around the world, for the most part.
I mean, there's still some slavery in Haiti, there's still some slavery in Middle Eastern countries and so on.
But as far as it being a universal institution that, I mean, So white Christians participated in slavery the least, treated their slaves the best, and spent untold amounts of blood and treasure to end the evil practice of slavery worldwide.
So naturally, of course, the only people blamed for slavery are whites.
It's pathetic, it's ridiculous, it's historically completely inaccurate, but it's profitable because whites are very self-critical, to a fault, in fact, and whites are very morally sensitive, and so You know, go to Saudi Arabia and talk about how they've treated minorities in the past or how they treat Christians in their own countries.
Can you go build a church, a Christian church in Saudi Arabia?
Why are they so Christophobic?
Christianophobic or whatever you want to call it.
But anyway, so people bagging on whites, criticizing whites and so on is a coward's hobby.
Everybody knows it.
And so just stand up for the benefits that whites have brought to the world, the benefits that whites have brought to science, as I've said before, over 95% of the scientific advances from 800 BC to AD 1950, it's a long time, really, well over 2,000 years, 2,500 almost, no, 2,500 over.
So 95% plus, it was about 97% of the advances came from Europe and North America, not including Mexico, and the vast majority were white males.
So there's no modern world without white males.
And that's just a basic fact.
I mean, simply the fact that a white male invented antibiotics has saved the lives of literally hundreds of millions of non-whites around the world.
Can whites get a little thanks?
Nope!
It's just colonialism and exploitation and rape.
And there's this fantasy that somehow India is poor because whites stole, someone again was saying, $45 trillion worth of Indian wealth.
No, it's nonsense.
He was actually saying that Indians were not poor in 1600 when it was less than $800 per capita.
of income that they had in 1990 dollars in 1600.
That's per capita, not per productive worker, which means you've got to feed a large family on far less than two dollars a day, or less than two dollars a day.
Feed and housing, clothing, and so on.
So the idea that there was all this wealth around the world and the whites came and stole it and that's why the whites were rich is not the case.
The whites became rich because of IQ plus free market in general.
A lot of other factors as well, but the ones that predicted the most are IQ plus free market.
If you look at Singapore, well, I talked about this in the live stream, so.
Just defend ferociously the value of white, Western European, largely Christian, civilization to the world and don't back down.
Don't back down at all.
Don't succumb to guilt.
Don't succumb to the sort of pathological self-criticism and altruism that characterizes a lot of Western thinking.
It's the leftover from the self-flagellation of the monasteries, I believe, in the early Middle Ages.
But just stand tall and don't back down and don't be bullied.
into hating your own culture in your own history.
So, Faisal said, do you believe that states are or could be a valid form of collective property analogous to a joint stock company?
It seems to me that possessions, property rights, title and sovereignty are all valid forms of self-ownership.
No.
A state is A collective fantasy that violates the non-aggression principle.
That's what a government is.
A government is a group of individuals who give themselves a particular label, a series of titles, and then claim the right, nay, in fact, the obligation to violate the non-aggression principle.
You can't reform slavery into the free market.
You can't reform rape into lovemaking.
You cannot reform theft into charity or earning simply by changing titles and labels.
The state exists as an entity which violates the non-aggression principle.
It's immoral.
It, of course, is destructive, as we're all seeing, and you can't do that.
Somebody says, Steph, tell us something about yourself.
No one else knows.
Thanks.
I will, in a sec.
It'll come up later.
Andrew Thomas said, been donating monthly since 2016.
I'm really wondering what happened to the show's format.
Like, where's Michael?
You two had a great dynamic.
Yeah, it's true.
We worked together for a half decade and it was really enjoyable.
He's a great guy.
But I, you know...
You've got to change.
You have to grow for me.
And I got a little bit tired of the call-in shows.
I'm still doing some.
And I wanted to get out of the studio more.
And I wanted to do more documentaries.
I've got a bunch in the works.
And I wanted to do more speeches and so on.
And I'm really not... There's not a huge number of people that I really want to interview anymore.
So there was just less requirement for a producer.
And so it was a great and productive relationship.
Love the guy to death.
But he has moved on.
So the show's format, I definitely want to work for you, but the way that I work for you as well is to stay interested in myself, to stay interested in what it is that I'm doing myself.
You can see people who don't change formats end up burning out.
And listen, I've been doing this for 12 years, and a lot of it has been, you know, call-in shows and interviews and current events and so on, and I just wanted to change things up to make my interest level stay the same.
So I am, in updating the format to some degree, I am continuing to work for you because otherwise I would get bored to the point where I would either not do
Good job, or I would just stop doing the job and and do something else that I found more more interesting So I'm trying to stay interested trying to stay dynamic trying to stay alert Which is why I'm doing the live streams now and super chats and so on like this, which is fun I used to do YouTube comments way back in the day, but it's been a long time since I did that and Just not a lot of production requirements for these kinds of shows so so that's where that is a Brian has asked and
With consideration to the current state of our culture and its future, would you rather raise a daughter or a son?
That's tough.
That's tough.
You know, we didn't find out the sex of our child, my wife and I, before we had.
I first realized this when I was in the delivery room.
And it was a wonderful, wonderful day.
Great day.
It's tough.
There's costs and benefits to both.
And I think that the anti-male attitude of society at the moment makes it very tough to raise a son.
On the other hand, statistically, I'm more likely to get a genius with a son than a daughter, though it certainly could happen.
My daughter is wicked smart.
And so I was sort of 50-50.
There's benefits to both.
And now that I've been raising a daughter for over 10 years... And it's funny.
I was just talking to her the other day, actually.
I never really... I said, you know, I never really think of Raising you like I never really think of raising you Because I don't there's a few course corrections here and there, but you know it's not it's not a Raising situation or guidance is massively needed because like any more than I needed to really teach her English I just spoke to her in English and explain a couple of words, but she doesn't understand then she looks stuff up on her own and now she's blowing through a novel a day sometimes and I I didn't really have to work on teaching her English, I just spoke to her English.
In the same way, I don't really need to raise her or teach her values, because I manifest those values in our daily life, and so she just absorbs them that way, so.
I don't know.
51-49, maybe?
Preference to Dora?
Phoenix Son said, Defense distributed versus GWAL.
3DGuns filed distribution as a First Amendment speech right.
It is a Second Amendment case built on First Amendment grounds.
Thoughts?
3DGuns filed distribution as a First Amendment speech right.
Yes, I think that's fine.
I think it's great.
A rabbit says, are you an alpha male?
Stefan is like, check out the jawline.
Yeah, well, of course, but I'm a more subtle alpha male because most of the alpha males around there are sort of chest beating and driving around in sports cars and bagging models.
And, you know, that's sort of endless adolescence of people like Leonardo DiCaprio.
They are considered to be the alpha males, but that's not really an alpha male.
That's just a hedonist.
So who is the real alpha male is the person who influences culture and society significantly.
So, yeah, as far as that goes, absolutely.
I mean, I have convinced probably over the years 100,000 families to stop hitting their children.
I've convinced people to homeschool.
I've convinced people to have children.
I get regularly invitations to and photographs of people who got married because they met through philosophy and had conversations about values ahead of time.
And I know that I have significant influence in various political halls.
So yes, as far as having an effect and an influence on the world, which to me is the real definition of alpha.
Yes.
Because it's a positive influence, it's alpha plus virtue.
Jordan4270 had a couple of funny, they weren't super chats, but I just saw them as I was gathering these, they were pretty funny.
He said, God damn it, Stefan, Hilary Swank, smash or pass?
Answer me!
And because he had five exclamation marks and it was all caps, I will.
So Hilary Swank, very talented actress.
I gotta tell you though, this is just a personal taste thing, so it has nothing to do with philosophy.
This is something that nobody knows about me.
See?
I'm going to tie this all together.
But now, I have a knot.
Great attraction to very toothy women.
You know, like that FBI woman.
Just very toothy women.
You know, like you smile and it's like the row of tombstones.
It's the giant chiclet domino teeth.
I just... When I kiss a woman and her teeth click... I don't know, it's just like I have a couple of things which are just like... For me.
Like they used to be these old do... Hey, here's something else nobody knows about me.
They used to be these old do-it-angs.
I don't know if they still have them anymore, but everyone with tablets, but...
They had three hole punches, and they'd have these little metal strips that would come up, and you'd just sort of fold them back to hold your papers in place.
And every now and then, I would scrape my nail, particularly my thumbnail against the edge of those.
Just gave me the willies.
And so, yeah, toothy women, you know, like playing tongue hockey with jaws does not work for me, though I'm sure she's a wonderful lady.
So I can't do the toothy.
I can't do the toothy girls.
So, all right.
He also said, this is kind of funny, he said, Stefan, sometimes I like to dye myself orange, paint myself green, sit in a hole, and pretend I'm a carrot.
Is this a win?
Yes or no?
I would say yes, in that you are self-actualizing as a carb-based vegetable, but I would also say that it is a win until, I suppose, somebody comes along who's cosplaying as a giant bunny, and then you're kind of lunch.
Somebody wrote, Stefan is all of our dads.
That's an old Tom Likas thing that people used to call him dad.
And it's funny, you know, because I mean, I'm 52.
I still feel like I'm in my 20s.
And physically, I'm doing fine.
So, you know, I don't have any aches and pains in particular.
So, you know, being dads to people, it's a lovely compliment.
Don't get me wrong.
I think it's wonderful.
And I think I can provide some dad wisdom, certainly can provide some dad humor.
And so I really, really appreciate that.
And it's funny.
Here's another thing people didn't know about me.
had a fantasy when I was younger.
So with Rick, one of the bands that I really liked, didn't like them when they first came out, was a band called The Police.
You know them, right?
So Sting, Andy Sumner, and the drummer Stuart Copeland.
I actually saw him give a speech once when I submitted a film and I'd made to the Hollywood Film Festival.
But The Police, I didn't really like the albums when they first came out and I remember when Roxanne came out and it was played constantly when I was in junior high school, I think, and Zenyatta Mondato was... The airy high vocals were just not doing it for me.
And then, I can't remember why, I just started to get into the music, went back to the earlier stuff and really, really liked the music.
And I used to have this fantasy about, and I don't know why, it was like sitting in this Victorian mansion talking about philosophy with Sting in a turtleneck sweater, like Sting was in a turtleneck sweater, I don't know what I was wearing, and that we would sit there and discuss Dickens and 19th century philosophy and so on in a Victorian mansion and I considered that to be a wonderful, positive thing.
I suppose he was a bit of a dad to me in a way.
And, uh, that, but you know, now I, I mean, I think Sting is a fairly wretched person in terms of just being, he seems pretty pro communist and, you know, anti Pinochet and, and, and pro Russia when Russia was being difficult.
And anyway, so it was, um, yeah, pacifist and leftist and, uh, Not critical of immigration or Islam or anything like that.
So he's kind of a cuck.
But a great singer, great entertainer, great songwriter.
At least he was.
I don't know.
He hasn't done anything in forever other than some pretty bad musical.
But anyway, so I appreciate that.
You know, if I can provide some dad wisdom to people, I think that's wonderful.
And so anyway, Mr. X-Ray said, Hi, Stefan.
I was wondering what your favorite or least favorite coding language to work with is.
Well, I chickened out of assembly.
Oh, actually, no.
I did start doing assembly very back in the day.
So when I first did computers, because our school was very primitive, it had a computer lab.
But when I first took computer science, I had to start off by coloring in cards.
Like literally, you would color in cards and that time the cards would go off, be processed overnight and come back with the results.
And that's, you know, I had a computer at home where I was learning how to code.
And I remember I failed that course so hard.
I think you could have doubled my marks and I wouldn't have passed just because I just didn't go, didn't care, didn't whatever, right?
I just thought it was so ridiculous.
I enjoyed coding at home and I was creating screen savers and drawing programs.
I created a A walk-around adventure program, I created something like Zork and did all of that.
And I really loved coding.
I didn't quite make it to machine-level coding, assembly coding.
Oh, I also created a space exploration game.
I created a game which was basically missile command but with ASCII graphics on a PET computer with 2K of memory.
Like, that's the thing you had back in the day.
You really had to worry about memory.
Now, you don't have to worry about it at all.
There's just so much RAM everywhere.
But back in the day, you really had to worry about memory.
And we used to have to do things where you'd try and high-load programs above 640K in DOS to free up memory.
And that was pretty wild.
But way back in the day, my first computer came.
It was an Atari.
I went with the 800, not the 400, because I wanted the real keyboard.
And this was when my grandmother had died and left me a little bit of money.
My mom did kick in a little bit more, and I was able to buy that computer.
It came with 8K of RAM, and I remember taking it up to 32K of RAM by buying from a guy in a parking lot.
Pretty sure it was legit, but it was a guy in a parking lot.
32K of RAM cost like, I don't know, 80 bucks, which was all the world back then.
And I used to go in Saturdays to this computer lab and just code all day and swap.
And people thought we were playing games and stuff.
And no, genuinely, that's what I did.
I would code.
I do remember loving the game Star Raiders on the Atari.
It was a fantastic game.
And the guy who made it never made a penny, really, from it.
It's just some guy who made it.
And it was amazing.
I mean, it fit in 8 or 16k.
It had a little RAM module that you put in.
It was an incredible game for all of that.
It had player missile graphics and all that.
I learned to code in BASIC.
Beginners Applied Symbolic Instruction Code.
And I know that nobody over the age of 12 is supposed to program in BASIC, but that's what I did.
And I loved BASIC and love BASIC.
And it got better and better as time went along.
And I had an Atari 520ST.
And that was my last Atari because it was $800 to buy a hard drive.
And like it came with a 3.5 inch Discs you put in.
I never programmed that because I was in grad school and I was pretty busy.
But I did write my first novel on that.
And it was a good computer, although I always had problems with the mice.
It was so frustrating, the mice would just stop working.
Because it was roly-poly mice.
So I had the Atari 520ST, which was a great computer, but it was $800 to buy a hard drive, and for that I could buy a second-hand 286.
Which I did, which already had a hard drive built in.
And didn't, again, didn't do any coding for quite some time.
Really got back into coding when I started working with Access 2.0, which was a Microsoft program back in the day.
And this is before there was a lot of online tutorials and the help stuff wasn't that helpful and there was no type ahead where you push the dot and you get the drop down of available commands.
And I just remember like learning how to read my first database record, adjust it and write it back to the database.
Took me like seven hours straight of just experimentation and trying to work with it.
And, you know, after that I could sort of code in my sleep.
So I worked a lot with Visual Basic for Access.
I also programmed something which would generate complex reports in Word.
It's called the Report Generator.
So you have data in the database, but I wanted one people wanted it to be able to produce complex reports that you could then edit in Word So I would do remote control of word and insert data as tables and text and so on and it was really a great demo situation and Then I started working with some visual basic just in terms of having modules to add into the central database program then I started working with a
The website of Visual Basic was ASP.NET at the beginning.
I really, really enjoyed that.
Just working, creating not just the code but the interface dynamically was really powerful.
And I had, I created a program that would read the database and its forms, right?
So the forms were all in Access and the little boxes you type into the drop-downs and so on.
I would scan all of those and then I would recreate the interface on the web, the navigation and the record navigation and the saving and the printing, because I would dynamically create RTF files on the fly and then send them to the browser.
So it was really cool insofar as we could sell the Access version for people who had Windows, but then for people who wanted to come in remotely, it automatically generated the interface to the database on the fly.
And this worked very well because we also were able to change the labels.
So when we worked with Chinese companies that we were able to very quickly, within a day or two, we could produce, whether they wanted it in English or Mandarin, we could produce the interface either way.
It was really spectacular stuff at the beginning.
I also wrote a program that dynamically changed the database based because we had to customize it for each program.
So it was really, really, you know, not to toot my own horn too much, but really advanced stuff, spectacular stuff.
And I really did enjoy Creating code to change code.
Creating code to change interfaces and all that.
That to me was really cool and helped a lot in terms of getting systems out in a reliable manner.
Like all of the reports were created programmatically and it was query by form was a big thing.
So you bring up a mirror of the existing form, you type stuff in, you hit apply and then you can query underlying data.
I'm sure that's pretty obvious, right?
So if you want to search for all of your underground storage tanks in Alabama, then you'd go to the underground storage tank screen, you'd hit the QBF query by form, and I would dynamically create a form on the fly that you could use to query the underlying data.
And I had other code where if you double-clicked on any date field, it would bring up A calendar, which you could use to enter dates.
If you double-clicked on any number field, it would bring up a calculator that you could use to calculate.
And then when you applied, it would bring the date or the data back down.
Anyway, I could talk about this stuff all day because I was very, very proud of all that coding.
And there's a reason why we sold this system.
Well, it started, the first system sold for $500,000.
And then we were selling systems for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
I think the biggest, most expensive system went for over a million.
And you know, I had a whole bunch of coders and all of that, a lot of whom were really, really smart and hardworking, but I did the bulk of it and it was just lovely.
I mean, I loved coding and I still do love coding.
The last thing I did was a wizard that allowed you to create your own XML file to query.
Like if you like the historical shows, you could get those.
If you like the colon shows, you could just get those.
And I just loved it.
It's such a wonderful cathedral of logic and reason and cause and effect.
And speeding things up is wonderful.
And, oh, it's just delicious.
And it was great.
You know, we had real challenges.
We had, like, complex data structures and queries and then we had a company that needed to store everything.
Historically, that was changed for audit reasons.
And so I created code that created tables from the queries and then took things from the form right before the update, dropped all the old values into the table that mirrored the queries.
And then put all of the values from the fields into the actual tables and that kind of intercept and having it automated.
When I could automate something, I get this complete thrill.
When I could speed something up, I get this complete thrill.
It's really quite addictive.
So yeah, so I'm a visual basic guy.
I guess you could say for the most part.
So I hope that helps.
Anna Wallstein says, can we bring our governments to court because my country is not a safe place anymore?
Yeah, well, I think you can.
I think you can try, but it probably won't do very well, because the courts are run by the government, so it's kind of tough.
All right, what do we have here?
Oh, thoughts on Elon Musk and Tesla? - Uh.
Yeah, I mean Elon Musk is a smart guy and he's from South Africa, I think, rightly.
I'm not a big fan of – didn't he smoke drugs on Joe Rogan?
Like I'm not a big fan of that kind of stuff because you kind of want to give your investors – like the investors are the people that you work for and so you kind of want to give the investors some confidence in you and I don't think that that's a particularly great way to go.
Does Stefan smoke tobacco?
No, my only drug really is caffeine.
And I have maybe two cups a day, max, maybe two and a half.
And that's sort of, because if I have too much, if I have too much caffeine, I get a little jumpy and it's not particularly enjoyable.
So, uh, let's see here.
Let's just see what else we have in terms of questions that I may have missed.
Stefan Molyneux, were you disappointed to be overlooked for the lead role in the Freddie Mercury movie?
Uh, no, not really.
I can't possibly.
My legs are fairly muscular.
My exercise of choice for cardio is a bike machine just because it's easier on the joints and it's good for heart rate and I can read or watch something or play a tablet game or something because it's kind of boring.
So, my legs would never be that thin, and it's not something that, obviously it was kind of a joke question, right?
But, what are you trying to say about my teeth?
I paid my dues!
So, let's see, Dan L said, doesn't history show that democracy and libertarianism are incompatible?
Once the franchise is universal, people just vote for ever larger government.
Yes, for sure.
So it used to be you had to be a white property owner, white male property owner, in order to vote.
Because they said, I mean, the founding fathers were very clear about the lessons of ancient Greece and ancient Rome.
The democracy is disastrous as a whole.
And so the reason why they said you had to be a property owner is that if you give the vote to everyone, then the poor outnumber the rich.
So the poor will just take away the property of the rich and everybody will end up poor.
That's the way things work.
And yeah, I mean certainly it doesn't make sense if you're not a taxpayer to have to vote.
It's called the conflict of interest.
Can you objectively vote on the welfare state if you believe that your very livelihood and the lives of your children are dependent upon the continuation of the welfare state?
Well, no, of course you can't.
So, but of course government runs on conflict of interest.
That's basically how things get done.
Fatarska said can you explain the UPP argument against salt and explain why it doesn't apply to hate speech e.g.
speech people didn't consent to hearing I don't know what that means speech people didn't consent to hearing I mean if you're on the subway and there's an announcement If you're at the airport and there's an announcement about some flight that's not yours, is that hate speech?
Speech people didn't consent to hearing?
I don't know what... And that's not the definition of hate speech, as far as I understand it.
There isn't really a definition of hate speech other than if it offends those who aren't white and male, then it's called hate speech.
The UPB argument against assault.
So I have a scar on my neck from surgery to remove a tumor that was on my salivary gland on my left side under the jaw.
Now, if somebody just stabbed me in the neck, that would be assault, but because I consented to it, it was surgery.
So assault is when you don't want someone to violate you, quote, physically, right?
And so assault cannot be universally preferable behavior because assault has to be something you don't want to have happen.
If assault is universally preferable behavior, it ceases to exist as a category because everybody wants to hit and be hit at the same time.
But if you want to be hit, You know, fight club style.
Hit me, right?
If you want to be hit, it's not assault.
Like there's times in which you can consent to being hit or at least reasonable expectations of being hit.
Like if you play hockey, you might get thumped up against the board.
There might be a fight.
People don't get charged with assault.
If you're in a boxing ring, of course, or you're doing taekwondo or karate or something like that.
Oh, that's a pretentious way of saying it.
What was that from trends?
Anyway.
So assault has to be something that one person doesn't want.
Therefore it can't be universally preferable behavior.
I don't know what it means in terms of hate speech, but hate speech is not.
Assault.
People can publicize their opinions and so on, and you can always avoid those opinions.
You can mute people, you can block people, you can stay off particular sites, you can avoid that kind of stuff.
And if you don't avoid it, like if you go into a public forum and there's speech there that you don't like, I don't really know how you can be bothered.
You know, like if you are standing You're peeing, right?
You're a male, you go to the urinal and you're peeing and some guy presses up against you.
That's kind of creepy and weird and nasty and you'd want to tell him to not do that, right?
On the other hand, if you're on the subway and someone presses up against you in rush hour, particularly if you've been wedged in there by those little Japanese people who look like croupiers shoving people into subway cars, well then that's the price you pay for not having a car, right?
So you save a lot of money by not having a car But one of the negatives of not having a car is during rush hour, you will be squished up against other people.
And that's just the way it is.
There's this old comedian, this woman who said something about traveling on the New York subway.
She said, well, now that our groins have been mashed together for 45 minutes, you want to start a family?
Kind of funny.
So that's just the reason.
So if you go onto the subway, you can't say, listen, man, you're violating my personal space.
But you can certainly say it when you go into the washroom, right?
When you're peeing at a urinal.
So, this basic reality that if you go into a public space, you may be exposed to arguments or perspectives that you don't like, but that's the inevitable result of going into A public space.
Space.
Like if you go to a rock concert, can you really complain that it's loud?
If your neighbor is playing music that loud, then you can complain.
And what was it?
Someone in England was repeatedly playing Whitney Houston's... Oh gosh, what was it?
Not the Children Are Your Future one, but the other one from The Bodyguard.
Oh, the old Dolly Parton song.
I will only be in your way.
I will always love you.
Don't worry, I'm not going to break into it.
So, and that person ended up going to jail in England for repeatedly playing that song at high volume.
For seven days they went to jail because it was really bad for their neighbors.
That's kind of abuse, right?
But if when Whitney Houston was alive, you went to see the concert, she's gonna sing that song, it's gonna be pretty loud.
You can't put her in jail for playing that song loud, right?
So, there's just environments where you go and it's kind of understood.
Like, you don't have to sign a contract.
Like, you have to sign a contract for your cell phone, but you don't have to sign a contract when you go into a store that says, I'm gonna buy things, not steal them.
It's kind of...
Understood, right?
Kind of understood.
And in a restaurant, you don't sign a contract that says, this meal is not free, I promise to pay for it.
It's just understood.
And you don't pay ahead of time, you pay at the end, right?
It's just the way things are, but you're expected to pay.
And you don't sign a contract when you go and take gas.
You understand, right?
So there's just things that are reasonably understood.
If you're in a public space where people have free speech, then you're going to be exposed to things that are offensive, things that are unpleasant, things that are nasty.
You know, like I find The term white privilege to be horribly offensive.
I find endless accusations of white racism and slave-owning colonialism and so on and how negative and horrible it all was only and always and forever directed at whites rather than say other groups, other racial groups, other ethnic groups, other religious groups.
I think it's horrible.
I think it's reprehensible.
I think it's disgusting and I would not want it censored at all.
Right?
So that's an important consideration.
There's no UPB against freedom of speech.
Alright, let's do one or two more.
Harambe Jr.
said, was wondering if you could do a debate with Jay Dyer on the validity of God.
He's a formidable debater and I think it would definitely add to the conversation and your resume.
Yeah, I've had a couple of invitations to debate the existence of God, but I'm not.
It's a really, really old hat for me.
I kind of started off with this hard atheism, this strong atheism, and I've written books and I've done endless videos on it and so on.
I really don't want to revisit all that stuff from years and years ago.
I'm sorry, I just, at some point, even the Barenaked Ladies don't want to play Enid one more time.
And also, I have a much more positive relationship with Christianity than I did in the past, so it's not something that I really would want to do.
Devon Spittle, AKA.
Do you ever feel like Wilson from Home Improvement when you help people on your calling show?
Thanks for all your hard work.
So that's, didn't you just see the hat from the guy and gosh, Buzz Lightyear, Tim Allen, a ridiculous amount of charisma, a very funny guy.
And no, no, not at all.
I am incredibly honored that people call me in for advice on significant issues in their life.
That is an incredible gift to me.
I take that honor, that vulnerability, that all of that with incredible seriousness.
And so, no, I never feel that at all.
I did, you know, when I was doing – Four-hour calls a week with people, it just wasn't the format.
So now I do it once, one-on-one, and so on.
And those shows, it's funny because those kind of call-in shows, with very, very few exceptions, like Debate with the Flat Earth Guy, not popular on YouTube, very popular on podcast downloads.
It was tough to stop the call-in show because it is the most popular thing in the podcast downloads.
But the other thing, too, is I've got more than 500 of them in the past.
They're not hugely time-sensitive, so if you like those, you can go find them pretty easily.
So no, I'm incredibly honored that people trust me with feedback on their most sensitive issues.
Mark Payne says, I'm depressed.
Should I try to get happy before trying to get rich, or vice versa?
What's your opinion on happiness versus usefulness?
Depression.
You might be depressed.
Like, you know, when I tweeted last night that if you're isolated, if you're lonely, it's as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
I mean, it's really, really bad for your health.
And so someone said, oh, I guess that just cures my crippling social anxiety and so on.
So depression, social anxiety, the first place that I would suggest looking is not within yourself, not necessarily even within your history, just in your immediate social environment.
Your friends, your family, extended family and so on.
Maybe your work.
Maybe you're depressed.
Or maybe you're just surrounded by horrible people.
Maybe you're socially anxious.
Or maybe you're just surrounded by dangerous people.
And the first thing you can do, like you want to take the environmental aspects out of things to begin with.
And That's really, really important.
There's an old, I think it's from Charles Dickens from way back in the day, where he said, you know, you could have existential angst or you might just have trouble digesting a bad potato, you know.
And so when it comes to negative emotional experiences, the first thing that I would do is look at my social environment.
And it took me a long time for me to learn this, but I want to pass that wisdom along, I guess, kind of dad style.
No, look, try and clean up your social environment first.
If there are people who are negative or horrible to you or don't believe in you or ignore you or ignore anything deep or valuable about you, then try and fix those relationships.
If you can't fix those relationships, then you have a choice.
You can choose to be depressed as the result of being around negative people or socially anxious because you're around dangerous, hostile or indifferent people.
And you can accept the negative emotional experience in return for the pretense of a relationship, or you can say, I'm striking out across the desert to find better companions, which was certainly my approach.
And I'm literally almost never looked back.
I have no regret, no regret at all.
I just wish I had done it sooner in my life.
So I would, uh, I would work on your social circle first and, uh, figure out how, how do people around you make you feel?
How do they react to you being unhappy?
Do they sit down and help?
Do they try and figure things out?
Or do they just laugh at you?
Do they ignore you?
What?
What?
So I would focus on all of that first.
James Murphy said, since monthly income tax receipts are needed to service debt, what if 25% of the makers decided to take three to six months off from work, how long to a government yells uncle?
Well, it would be very quick.
It would be very quick.
But getting people to do that is always a challenge.
Chris Nugent said I have three rules of virtue.
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