Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux - Good is Evil
Aired: 2024-11-18
Duration: 05:01


=== Convince Others to Stop Stealing (01:36) ===

[00:00:00]  This is the true history of what is commonly called morality.
[00:00:07]  If you were the only thief in the world, imagine how easy your job would be.
[00:00:12]  There would be no locks, no security systems, no passwords, no police.
[00:00:18]  You could just take stuff and people would probably just assume they lost it.
[00:00:24]  On the other hand, if everyone in the world was a thief, everyone would half-starve.
[00:00:29]  No one would create more than they consumed in the moment, because it would just be stolen.
[00:00:35]  So, if you want to be a great thief, the greatest, perhaps, your best strategy would be to convince everyone else to stop stealing.
[00:00:46]  Not because you think theft is wrong, you are after all a thief, but because you don't want the competition to Thus the most brilliant thieves invent property rights to make theft easier and more profitable.
[00:01:04]  If everyone is a counterfeiter, money is worthless.
[00:01:08]  If you want to be a great counterfeiter, the greatest perhaps, your first step is to convince everyone else that counterfeiting is immoral, wrong, evil, and must be punished.
[00:01:21]  Then you must convince everyone that your own counterfeiting is moral, good, virtuous, and must be rewarded.
[00:01:31]  This is what George Orwell called doublethink.

=== Disarm And Enslave (03:24) ===

[00:01:36]  In order for us to accept such madness, the wheels of our minds must first be broken by indoctrination, by government, schools.
[00:01:48]  Ethics.
[00:01:49]  Virtue.
[00:01:50]  Morality.
[00:01:52]  These were not invented and inflicted from any desire to spread goodness, but rather to disarm and enslave others.
[00:02:01]  To disarm and enslave you.
[00:02:08]  The sequence is always the same.
[00:02:10]  Invent a universal standard of good behavior, and then create an invisible exception for yourself and your friends by calling it something else.
[00:02:23]  Okay, all right, theft is wrong.
[00:02:25]  Thus, those in power have to call their theft taxation.
[00:02:30]  Thou shalt not kill.
[00:02:32]  Okay, all right, murder is wrong.
[00:02:35]  Thus, those in power have to call their murders wars.
[00:02:41]  No kidnapping!
[00:02:43]  Okay, all right, kidnapping is wrong.
[00:02:46]  Thus, those in power have to call their kidnappings incarceration.
[00:02:52]  Violence is wrong.
[00:02:54]  Okay, all right, using violence to get what you want is wrong.
[00:02:58]  Thus, those in power have to call their violence spanking or laws.
[00:03:06]  Do you see the pattern?
[00:03:08]  Create a universal moral rule and then create an exception for yourself and your friends.
[00:03:17]  It's very easy to test this theory, walk up to an average citizen and ask him if using violence to solve problems is good.
[00:03:23]  He will say no.
[00:03:25]  Point out that the state initiates force all the time in the pretense of solving problems, he will immediately start to defend the state.
[00:03:34]  It is inevitable.
[00:03:37]  People defend moral rules and then defend the most blatant violations of those same moral rules.
[00:03:45]  This is how we are controlled.
[00:03:48]  This is how we are propagandized.
[00:03:52]  This is how money dies.
[00:03:54]  This is how freedom dies.
[00:03:58]  This is how we die.
[00:04:04]  Someone gives you a moral rule.
[00:04:06]  The first thing to do is to examine not the rule, but the exception.
[00:04:10]  Who is not bound by that rule?
[00:04:13]  Who gets to do the exact opposite?
[00:04:16]  It will always be those in power.
[00:04:19]  That is why moral rules exist.
[00:04:24]  Any thinker who actually tries to apply universal moral rules universally is considered insane, bizarre, ridiculous.
[00:04:34]  Because the purpose of universal morality is the exception, the violation.
[00:04:43]  Governments disarm citizens by denying them weapons, while retaining monstrous weapons in the hands of the state.
[00:04:52]  It is the same with morality.
[00:04:57]  Open your mind.
[00:04:59]  Open your eyes.