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March 3, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
08:34
People Just Say All Men Are Bad
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Yeah, I mean, it's very sad, and it is a wild thing, and I honestly don't understand it if you guys have any thoughts, but, you know, the fact that people are so easily programmed to go against their instincts is pretty wild.
The fact that just people are just like, you know, you can just say to women, oh, men are your enemy, men are patriarchs, men control you, men are privileged, and they have all of the power, and you're helpless and have been exploited, and then women are just like, yeah, we hate them men, right?
I mean, it's like...
I mean, men understand that there are bad men, which is why we fight against them.
But putting all men in the category of bad men rather than there's a small minority of bad men, which women need good men to protect them from, and therefore you have to choose good men to be safe against bad men.
All men are bad.
It's just, I don't know.
How are people so easily programmed?
I don't really get it.
And there's some evolutionary reason that I'm sure I'll puzzle out or maybe you guys can help me out with.
Why are people so easily programmed?
Why are women just so programmed to just dislike men?
I don't really quite get the evolutionary purpose of that as a whole.
Dislike men.
Dislike men.
Men are bad.
Men are bad.
Men are exploiters.
I mean, it doesn't help the genes, right?
All right.
Let's get to your questions, comments.
Steph, there's a website called the Library of Babel.
It contains every book ever written and every book that will ever be written.
I don't know what that means.
In my school, says Cameron, what happened in the dance situation was literally no one danced.
We all just stood around until the music stopped.
These are the kids that are now in their mid-twenties and have never asked to go out.
What is the cause or solution to this?
Here's a storyline about the cat in Downton Abbey.
Yep, the cat.
The hot guy who...
There's the hot, cold guy who likes you despite himself.
That's Pride and Prejudice.
And also in Pride and Prejudice is the guy who claims to like you but only wants to get in your pants.
All right.
So, the solution to this?
Well, I mean, there is no solution until the welfare state is no more or is severely diminished.
Steph, what do you think will be the tipping point where women will start being held accountable for bad decisions again?
Yeah.
I mean, it's the fundamental issue with regards to, right?
Which is, I want to be equal to men.
I want to be protected from bad decisions.
I want to be equal to men.
I want to be protected from bad decisions.
But you can't have it both ways.
I mean, you can...
In sort of theory, you can in contradictory abstractions, and you can when the next generation is being pillaged to pay for your bad decisions or your bad mistakes.
But...
All right.
Oh, to answer your podcast, hell is not enough.
This guy says, no local churches that I know have received direct government money.
Slash USA. ID and such a thing would create vocal outrage.
However, I do see some churches that sponsor or partner with food banks which may be getting semi-trucks of food through the USDA. Well, no, but in America, all churches receive subsidies because they're not taxed.
And do you think that the government just decided not to tax churches for reasons of compassion and virtue and theology?
now.
He wrote, somebody else writes, the churches slash Christian organizations receiving direct government money.
For the most part, those organizations are wearing the skin suits of Christianity, but have abandoned their original mandate to spread the gospel, and now instead fill bellies and do not say souls.
The corrupting money of the government is on the periphery of Christianity in the U.S.
It's not overt like in Germany and Britain, where the Anglican Lutheran churches receive direct money from the government.
No, the Christian organizations in the U.S. are receiving massive amounts of money for government, particularly for resettlement.
Now, the problem for me, you know, I'm no theologian, right, but just in general, the problem with religion at the moment is that women are blocking men from enforcing moral standards.
There's an old movie, it's not a very good movie, Susan Sarandon and Kevin Costner, some baseball movie, with sloppy kisses the last three days.
And in it, you know, the woman says, I mean, she's basically been...
A bit of a tort when it comes to sleeping with baseball players.
And she says, Hannah, everybody deserves to wear white on their wedding day.
Everybody deserves to wear white on their wedding day.
So that to me is, you know, boiled down into a foundational nutshell.
That is the issue.
Is that men want to enforce standards and women want this sort of pathological empathy stuff.
In general, tons of exceptions.
So men want to enforce standards and women want hugs and forgiveness.
Sometimes men are too harsh and they need the hugs and forgiveness stuff, and sometimes the hugs and forgiveness stuff becomes pathological and you need some standards.
So men and women have sort of offshored some of this empathy slash standards, right?
Because the enforcement of standards hurts people.
And so if all you're caring about is people being upset, you can't enforce any standards.
On the other hand, sometimes standards can be too harsh and punitive and not hear the other person's point of view.
And so you need to listen more and maybe have some more sympathy, right?
So it's a balance, right?
But for a variety of reasons, and particularly in the church, men cannot enforce standards.
And when men cannot enforce standards, we don't want to play the game.
And this is true with dating as a whole.
This is sort of a fundamental thing.
So when you grew up, as I did, in the glorious anarchy of adult-free, no-money-out-in-the-woods childhood entertainment, then You have to invent all of these rules for your games and then you have to have a way of punishing people, punishing the boys who don't follow the rules, right?
So, if you're playing tag and you tag some kid and he says, you didn't touch me or you only touched the tip of my shirt and that doesn't count, like, who wouldn't follow the rules?
Okay, you just don't invite him.
He's now ostracized because men don't want to play games where they cannot enforce the rules, i.e.
marriage, right?
You can't enforce the rules.
Right?
A woman has an absolute right to the man's income.
The man has no right to anything the woman may or may not provide in the marriage.
Not a single shred.
Right?
So, men never want to play in games where you can't enforce the rules.
Because then it's not a game.
It's just an exploitation.
So, we would spend a lot of time figuring out what the rules were.
And I wrote about this in my novel, Almost the Battle of the Garden.
So, great.
Piece of writing, in my humble opinion, about how the rules are enforced in games without referees.
And arguing about rules and rules enforcement is foundational, because if you can't enforce the rules, there is no game to play, and no game to play is a catastrophe for boys, which is one of the reasons why boys graduate Or gravitate.
So gravitate more towards video games, because in video games, the rules are all enforced, right?
I mean, there's sort of punk buster stuff for people who are cheating that way, but in general, the rules are enforced by the computer, by the servers, by the program, the programmers, and so on.
So the rules are enforced, and therefore the boys want to play the game, which is why boys Move more towards video games and move away from dating.
Dating can't enforce any rules.
If the woman has, like, you know, five guys on rotation and she kind of ghosts you, then there's no rules.
Even if civilized interaction or behavior or thoughtfulness or anything like that can't enforce any rules.
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