March 8, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| All right. | |
| Let's get to your comments. | |
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| Sorry, I lost my... | |
| All right. | |
| Oh, so this is the guy. | |
| That's okay, Steph. | |
| Challenge accepted. | |
| I'm going on a date tomorrow with a lovely lady. | |
| We had quite the chat today and have been talking over text for a while now, changing my life's focus. | |
| To being an amazing husband and father makes day-to-day decision-making so much easier. | |
| Good, good. | |
| Yeah, like I was talking to a guy today. | |
| Let's keep it abstract. | |
| I was talking to a guy today. | |
| He wants to reconnect with someone in his life that he's kind of estranged from. | |
| And I said, well, what is the benefit for the person you're estranged from having you back in his or her life? | |
| What's the benefit? | |
| You have to look at things from the outside in. | |
| You have to look at things from the outside in. | |
| So you have, like, with the guy, so the guy's got the schizophrenic brother, and again, with great sympathy, I say, you have all of this history with your brother. | |
| You have all of this connection. | |
| You have all of this sense of obligation and guilt. | |
| And most times, sentimentality is not what is the right thing to do. | |
| The biggest problem with sentimentality is how do I explain this to other people? | |
| How can I explain this to other people with regards to my own mother? | |
| My mother is old. | |
| She's unwell. | |
| She's had mental health issues. | |
| She's been institutionalized. | |
| She's sad. | |
| All of these things are true. | |
| All of these things are true. | |
| If your primary moral concern, and I say this having fallen down this pit many times myself, so I say this with all humility, if your primary moral issue is, oh my God, how am I going to explain this? | |
| Let's say I meet some woman. | |
| Jeez, okay, I meet some woman. | |
| And I really like her. | |
| She's very thoughtful, moral, and sensitive. | |
| And then I say, Oh, God, I don't have anything to do with my brother. | |
| He's schizophrenic. | |
| Oh, my God, she's going to think I'm so cold. | |
| She's going to think I'm so mean. | |
| She's going to think I'm thoughtless and callous and I don't care about, like, and then it's even worse. | |
| We internalize. | |
| So much of sentimentality is, how the fuck do I explain this to myself? | |
| How do I explain this? | |
| How do I explain this moral decision to myself? | |
| I can't explain it to myself means I have no free will to say no! | |
| Can you explain it to yourself? | |
| If you can explain it to yourself and you're comfortable with your decision, or as comfortable as you can be with difficult decisions, can you explain it to yourself? | |
| If you say, I can't possibly explain not seeing my schizophrenic brother to myself, you have no free will. | |
| You can't choose. | |
| Because sentimentality has turned you into an NPC. It's turned you into a programmed robot. | |
| I don't have an excuse. | |
| I can't think of a reason. | |
| I can't. | |
| Explain why I don't want to see my brother. | |
| I can't come up with a convincing story that makes it okay. | |
| Therefore, I have no choice. | |
| But to pour resources into this bottomless hole. | |
| And, oh man, so much of what I do, and I thank you again so much for your support, but so much of what I do is around trying to restore free will to you by giving you objective moral principles and counter-narratives to other people's Arguments. | |
| Other people's arguments. | |
| You know, I mean, the entire purpose, in my view, of the welfare state, for instance, was not to help the poor, since it doesn't. | |
| The entire purpose of the welfare state was to buy votes and get enough people dependent upon state redistribution of wealth that you can't undo mass immigration for people not looking for a better life, but looking for free money from the government, right? | |
| That is really the ultimate bait and switch. | |
| Several jurors in follow-up interviews said they only voted to convict him because they feared the race riots if he got off. | |
| Yeah, and wasn't there a BLM protester who ended up getting in by saying he could be neutral? | |
| Could be. | |
| Thank you, Chris. | |
| I appreciate that. |
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