Feb. 16, 2020 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Alright, so for those of you who are catching this, I am going to be in about 10 minutes going to do an Ask Me Anything on Discord, because although it's called Discord, I actually like to sow cord. | |
| Not Discord, but cord, as in cords of wood. | |
| Of which the flame you can use to light your philosophical bonfires. | |
| All right. I guess we can let that one go. | |
| So you can go to discord.gg forward slash blue politics. | |
| That's discord.gg forward slash blue politics. | |
| And that is how you can get onto the AMA. I'm sure it's going to be quite exciting. | |
| I will be broadcasting it soon. | |
| Through this channel as well. | |
| And you can follow me there. | |
| Just let me know. Let me just go over here to the tube of Eunice and just see if it's coming through. | |
| You guys can hear me just fine. | |
| I'm sure that you can. | |
| And I hope you're having a lovely evening. | |
| I hope that you will be able to join us for this lovely Ask Me Anything. | |
| I do really enjoy the Reddit stuff. | |
| I've done a couple of them before. | |
| And it's been really, really enjoyable. | |
| We've got a couple of mods who are going to be grabbing the questions. | |
| And naturally, of course, I said I only want questions from my Sycopedia article. | |
| And yeah, it's going to be all Trollfest all the time. | |
| With any luck. With any luck. | |
| That is going to be the approach that we are going to take. | |
| So I hope you'll be able to join me there. | |
| And I will, of course, be watching some of the comments here as well. | |
| And yeah, it looks like we are going. | |
| And how nice is that? | |
| Let me just have a look here. Oh, all the new technology. | |
| It's just too exciting for words. | |
| But yeah, and it's looking all right, looking all right. | |
| Let me just see. | |
| I'm just going to play a wee bit of system audio because I really want to make sure that the system audio is coming through as well. | |
| So just let me know if you can hear this. | |
| No, it's coming. Hi everybody, Stefan Molyneux from Freedom Man. | |
| I'm here with Thomas. Thomas, why don't you tell us, I guess, the significant challenge that you're facing and we'll see what we can do. | |
| All right. Did you hear that thing about Thomas? | |
| Just let me know. And I also wanted to thank Jay Dyer, who came by. | |
| And it was... | |
| Sounds good from New York? Okay. Waving. | |
| Hello. Wave back. Wave back. | |
| And yeah, Nick Fuentes got toasted from YouTube. | |
| You know, this is going to be a tough, it's going to be a tough while. | |
| It's going to be a tough while. | |
| There's a lot that I disagree with that guy about. | |
| A lot, you know, he's a young guy. | |
| I remember he's only two years older than, oh, David Hogg. | |
| So, yeah, he's got to waste. | |
| Did you assign a mod yet? | |
| Hey, you know, if anybody would like to be a mod, let me know. | |
| And All In Live wants me to shout out his channel. | |
| He do coronavirus updates daily. | |
| Do you know that I heard that you can get sick even after you've recovered? | |
| In other words, it's not like, you know, there are like a hundred different varieties of the common cold. | |
| I've had about 104. And, of course, once you get that common cold, you're fine afterwards, right? | |
| But, my gosh, is it ever rough when it comes to... | |
| Pick a background, yeah. | |
| Is it ever rough when you can't even solve that problem by getting it? | |
| You can just get it again. So that's what I've heard. | |
| So, yeah, that's not particularly great. | |
| Debate Chris Martinson about coronavirus, Steph. | |
| I assume you mean coronavirus, not corona the beer. | |
| But, I mean, debate what? | |
| I mean, he seems to have pretty good information, and he's pretty skilled in the subject matter, as I figure out. | |
| So, have you ever played the game Pandemic? | |
| Not online, although I do believe that it is something that occurs in real life these days at the moment, so... | |
| Yeah, the bot spam in the chat during my last debate was insane. | |
| Sorry about that. I was really focusing on the debate with Jay Dyer, which was fun and enjoyable, but it was a little rough. | |
| It was a little rough for the spam. | |
| I got to it later, but not before, so we will figure that out. | |
| And I have not watched the channel Dr. | |
| John Campbell. And debate Vaush. | |
| Yeah, so Vaush, I think he's a communist. | |
| He and I are going to be debating next weekend. | |
| And I hope that you will do it sort of the same way that we did it before. | |
| We're going to be doing that debate next weekend. | |
| Let me just double check. I think it's Sunday night, 8 p.m., if I remember rightly. | |
| I'm going to just double check on that. | |
| And... I don't have that. | |
| No, that's today. Okay, hang on a sec. | |
| 23rd. It's the 23rd, which we will be doing. | |
| Which is... Yeah, it's Sunday night, 8pm. | |
| I'm going to be full-on debate with a communist. | |
| And... Found you from Gemma O'Doherty. | |
| Yeah, well, she's a very brave... | |
| Very brave woman who works in Ireland and did a lot of work on the election. | |
| And... Let's see here. | |
| So let's see here. | |
| Is respect subjective or objective or a mix of both? | |
| How do you know when someone deserves your respect? | |
| Well, there's sort of two answers to that, right? | |
| So one is you know that they deserve your respect when they accord with values of, you know, virtue and integrity and honesty and not just blind courage but knowing when to push, when to pull, when to advance, when to retreat. | |
| You know, courage is a complicated thing. | |
| You don't want a deficiency and be a coward. | |
| You don't want excess. And be foolhardy. | |
| And so when people are caught with rational values, then they are deserving of your respect. | |
| But there are times when you feel like you respect someone and you're not exactly sure why. | |
| There are times when somebody is deserving of your respect, but you don't feel it. | |
| Like respect is a feeling, not just a moral judgment. | |
| And it's fine to have abstract moral judgments like, you know, I should ideally be attracted to this person, but I just don't find them attractive. | |
| That is the peculiar mix of intellect and emotion that we all have to wrestle with in this life. | |
| So the way that I work with it is if somebody is deserving of respect, then I will give them respect. | |
| If I don't feel the respect but they're in accordance with my values, that either means that my emotions are somehow out of whack with my values or the other person's behavior is out of whack with my values and my emotions are telling me of the difference. | |
| So it can be quite complicated, but... | |
| Let's see. Oh, that's funny. | |
| Let's see here. Well, you know, it is the interesting question of whether, say, people in Ireland, whether they want to continue or not, whether they want to survive or not. | |
| And you can't really create that in people. | |
| They can become so demoralized by endless propaganda that they don't want to continue. | |
| And that's particularly an issue. | |
| Let's see. Does Discord take over audio? | |
| Yeah, I don't know what's going to happen. | |
| I'm going to try. You should definitely run it through Discord. | |
| I'll try and run it through here as well. | |
| But I don't know if I can sort of split it all, whether I can send the audio to Discord and to here as well. | |
| We'll see. But I just wanted to drop by and just remind you guys of the debate that's coming up and say hi to everyone, of course. | |
| And... What are the best ways to deal with a situation where you're being told you're hateful and you already struggle with self-hate? | |
| Do not be in a situation where somebody is telling you that you're hateful. | |
| Because usually they're not kidding. | |
| And hateful is a dehumanizing term that is a prequel to emotional or verbal or even physical abuse. | |
| Do not stay in a situation where somebody is abusing you to that degree for sure. | |
| Alright. Okay, so we've got another minute or two. | |
| Please don't forget to head over to this. | |
| I will give you the link one more time before I drift over there. | |
| And again, I will try to run it through here as well, but we shall see how that's going to go. | |
| So let's just see here. | |
| What have we got? I should have really written it down. | |
| You know, slightly more... | |
| Okay, discord.gg forward slash bluepolitics. | |
| You can run it from your browser. Of course, if you've got Discord, you can go there as well. | |
| And I will try to... | |
| I will try to run it here too. | |
| Again, I don't know how it's going to work, the split focus between here and Discord, but love you guys too. | |
| Please nip over there and I will see you guys over there in just a minute or two. | |
| Thanks so much, of course, for listening and for watching and for supporting. | |
| Please don't forget to go by freedomain.com forward slash donate to help out the show. |
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