Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux - 38 Philosophy Questions in 6 Minutes
Aired: 2019-07-13
Duration: 06:18


=== Need vs. God (05:16) ===

[00:00:02]  Who, in your opinion, is the enemy?
[00:00:05]  Willful ignorance.
[00:00:08]  Was 9-11 an inside job?
[00:00:12]  The U.S.
[00:00:12]  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.
[00:00:27]  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?
[00:00:38]  Peaceful parenting.
[00:00:41]  Do you need God to be good?
[00:00:44]  You cannot be good with God.
[00:00:46]  You can only be obedient, which is amoral at best.
[00:00:52]  Would you circumcise your son?
[00:00:55]  Hell no!
[00:00:55]  And I would not cut the ear off my daughter either.
[00:00:59]  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.
[00:01:10]  Is there a God?
[00:01:11]  No.
[00:01:15]  What do you consider yourself politically?
[00:01:19]  Anti.
[00:01:21]  Is it okay to jail children violently for experimenting with cannabis?
[00:01:26]  No.
[00:01:27]  But somebody should probably try and help the parents who may not be doing that great a job.
[00:01:33]  If you had to pick one way to solve the national economic crisis, what would it be?
[00:01:38]  Politicians need to put the guns down.
[00:01:43]  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.
[00:02:02]  The best underdog of all time, the masses.
[00:02:08]  Who would you like to see win the 2012 presidential race?
[00:02:14]  The majority, i.e.
[00:02:16]  no politicians.
[00:02:20]  Tattooing a minor is illegal in the U.S.
[00:02:22]  Do you think piercing of minors should be illegal too?
[00:02:25]  I don't believe in laws.
[00:02:26]  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.
[00:02:50]  Bernard von Notthaus committed the crime of making a virtual currency, and the US government labels him an economic terrorist.
[00:02:57]  Who is the real terrorist?
[00:02:59]  False philosophers.
[00:03:02]  Mostly academics.
[00:03:06]  Who should be Ron Paul's VP candidate in 2012?
[00:03:09]  Sam Harris, to balance his religious fundamentalism.
[00:03:14]  Should our elected officials be subject to the same polygraph testing requirements as our police?
[00:03:19]  No, because there are much better liars.
[00:03:24]  Have you ever contributed to a Ron Paul money bomb?
[00:03:27]  No, I don't like the last syllable.
[00:03:31]  Would you grant anyone the power to deprive you of the things you need to survive?
[00:03:37]  If new technologies would arrive that would extend life indefinitely, provided that you would be rejuvenated to a healthy 20 to 30-something, would you do it?
[00:03:46]  Absolutely.
[00:03:49]  Should products and services be provided at gunpoint?
[00:03:53]  No.
[00:03:54]  Only self-defense.
[00:03:57]  Do you find anime girls to be sexy?
[00:04:00]  No, those bambi eyes sort of creep me out.
[00:04:04]  What is the worst government program?
[00:04:08]  The law.
[00:04:11]  What is your opinion of Bradley Manning?
[00:04:14]  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?
[00:04:29]  Santa Claus?
[00:04:31]  Or Gandalf?
[00:04:33]  Who's your favorite economist?
[00:04:36]  As long as he's not writing history, Murray Rothbard, his historical writings are pretty dull to me.
[00:04:43]  Do you support a tax increase for Americans making over $250,000 a year, only if they are government employees, at which point the tax should be 100%?
[00:04:56]  What is your preferred web browser?
[00:04:58]  Chrome for speed, Firefox for stability.
[00:05:02]  What kind of anarchist are you?
[00:05:05]  The philosophical kind.
[00:05:09]  Who do you think won the first Republican presidential debate?
[00:05:12]  Everyone except the economically productive.
[00:05:17]  We need your help.

=== What Job Would You Most Want? (01:00) ===

[00:05:18]  What topic should the Canadian Awareness Network now focus most of our resources on to create some real change in this country?
[00:05:24]  Child abuse.
[00:05:28]  What is your favorite hot drink?
[00:05:30]  Mmm, a nice latte.
[00:05:33]  Is it a valid parental right to amputate healthy body parts from children?
[00:05:39]  No.
[00:05:40]  And this includes their brains, i.e.
[00:05:42]  sending them to public school.
[00:05:45]  Or church.
[00:05:49]  If you could work on a movie, which job would you most want?
[00:05:52]  Writer!
[00:05:53]  It's the only one that matters!
[00:05:56]  Do you support the Patriot Act?
[00:05:58]  I oppose the initiation of force in all its forms.
[00:06:02]  Should you be arrested for dancing at the Jefferson Memorial?
[00:06:07]  Only if you're voguing.
[00:06:10]  Do you want genetically modified food on your plate?
[00:06:14]  I want me in the free market to decide what I eat, not the state.