March 8, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| So, you have an incredible inheritance of intelligence, you who listen to what we talk about here. | |
| This is a very high IQ show. | |
| So, you have an inheritance. | |
| You were given the most staggering gift, which is intelligence, human intelligence. | |
| It's the only intelligence we really have. | |
| The highest gift possible because your ancestors had kids. | |
| You kind of got to pay it forward. | |
| It's just a decent thing and an honorable thing. | |
| A positive thing to do. | |
| So, if your brother, let's say you have him move into your house, and he stresses you out, and he's kind of crazy, and he needs to have a rage room, and he breaks things, and you're tired, and you're stressed, and you can't date, and you don't do well at work. | |
| Well, who's that helping? | |
| It doesn't make him better. | |
| It just makes you worse. | |
| So, let me tell you something. | |
| Here's a very, very significant Important thing to think about when you're trying to engage in any relationship whatsoever. | |
| Is there a net positive in the interaction, right? | |
| Is there a net positive in the interaction? | |
| It's really, really important. | |
| Of course, by definition, two people trading in the free market, it's win-win. | |
| Otherwise, it wouldn't happen, right? | |
| So by definition, in the free market, trades in the free market, both people are better off because they're voluntarily trading, right? | |
| You want the dollar more than... | |
| The pen you have, the other guy wants your pen more than the dollar he has, so you're both better off, right? | |
| So, with regards to your brother, even if you accept the responsibility, which you don't have to with regards to what your parents created and then wrecked, I think, possibly, you have to say, okay, if I pour heart, mind, and soul into my brother, what is the net calculated positive outcome? | |
| Well, let's say he is 20% happier. | |
| I know this sounds like utilitarianism and pragmatic happiness calculations. | |
| Just bear with me and we'll address that in a sec, right? | |
| Just look at this. | |
| So let's say your brother is 20% happier and you're 50% unhappier. | |
| That's a net negative of the happiness in the world. | |
| And I know we can eyeball these things or we can sort of whatever, right? | |
| So look at this calculation. | |
| Now, let's say that, and there's also genetic calculation, your brother is very unlikely to ever have children. | |
| If you devote yourself to taking care of your brother, then you also become very unlikely to have children. | |
| You're miserable, you're bitter, you're angry, you're frustrated, you're resentful for an obligation you never chose. | |
| You did not create, you did not make, you did not have him as your child, and you did not break him as your child. | |
| So, listen, sentimentality. | |
| Sentimentality destroys more men and women and cultures and civilization. | |
| Sentimentality is one of the greatest and most toxic environmental virulent pathogens in the world. | |
| You must fiercely, fiercely, fiercely guard yourself against sentimentality. | |
| Sentimentality generally arises when you have a moral absolute That is based upon appearance rather than results. | |
| Well, but he's my brother. | |
| I have to take care of him. | |
| How will it look if I don't? | |
| What will people say if I don't? | |
| Can I justify it to myself? | |
| Right? | |
| Sentimentality is when you provide resources based upon the desire To look good rather than do good. | |
| You know, like I'm passing by this guy. | |
| He's homeless. | |
| I'm going to give him 20 bucks because I just feel so bad that he's homeless. | |
| I feel so sad that he's homeless. | |
| That's all about you. | |
| It's not about what's better for him, right? | |
| If he's just going to go and take that 20 bucks and buy drugs or pay that 20 bucks and go gamble or pay that 20 bucks and go buy liquor, you're not doing him any good. | |
| It's just about you want to feel good and the sentimentality is the moral self-praise you give yourself. | |
| for performing an action regardless of the actual good it's adding to the world. | |
| Do you see what I'm saying? | |
| I'm not saying do you agree, but I don't want to over-explain or under-explain. | |
| Do you sort of get where I'm coming from? | |
| And sentimentality is, oh, how could you? | |
| But she's your mother. | |
| Your mother is a saint. | |
| Your father, this is your father. | |
| You have to take care of your father, right? | |
| It is emotional bullying. | |
| Shock and horror and so on, right? | |
| This is the old thing. | |
| It's like, well, but if you want to get rid of socialized medicine, people are going to die in the streets. | |
| And look at people's general health. | |
| Jesus, Lord, God Almighty. | |
| Sorry for the name in vain stuff, but holy crap. | |
| Let me tell you guys something. | |
| I was just looking this up. | |
| Just the other day, my wife and I were just kind of curious because, you know, we were in pretty robust health and so on, right? | |
| And I was kind of like, hey, I wonder how many people, Over, like, in sort of our age group, sort of late 50s, 60s, what kind of health outcomes are going on, right? | |
| I thought I had saved it, but I didn't. | |
| Let me just have a look. | |
| It's insane. | |
| I want to make sure I get the actual math. | |
| Oh, that's wild, man. |
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