March 22, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
03:25
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| Alright, so he says, sorry, 500 character limit. | |
| Yes, our parents def have responsibility. | |
| Question. How to navigate making progress helping my cousins with their kids while not applying those same principles to their parental relationships? | |
| How to navigate making progress helping my cousins with their kids while not applying those same principles to their parental relationships? | |
| So, one of the things that you want to do as a whole in life, When you're asking a question is, are you asking for the impossible? | |
| This is sort of a fundamental question, right? | |
| Are you asking for the impossible? | |
| So you're saying, how do I transfer universal principles without applying them universally? | |
| You can't do it. | |
| How do I transfer or inculcate or encourage universal principles without applying them universally? | |
| How do I have a scientific theory that explains the roots of gravity but excludes the moon and the earth? | |
| Well, if it's a universal theory, it's going to encompass the moon and the earth. | |
| So, how do I get people to be moral, which is universal? | |
| How do I get people to follow universal moral principles while carving out massive sections of their personal relationships? | |
| Spoiler! You can't! | |
| What are you doing to me? | |
| I really want to transfer universal moral principles to my cousins and their kids while specifically excluding their own parental relationships from these universal principles. | |
| You can't! | |
| And you can waste a lot of time if you want, and you can appear to be a rank hypocrite if you want, because you will be. | |
| And look, again, I'm not a perfect person. | |
| I have my hypocrisies and so on, so I'm not saying this with any sense of superiority, but I sure wish people had told me this shit when I was younger. | |
| You can't. | |
| How do I tell my cousins that parental moral responsibility is universal and absolute, but doesn't apply to their own parents? | |
| I'm sorry, but do you see how funny this is? | |
| It's tragic comic, but it's funny. | |
| You can't! | |
| You can't. | |
| And you can either have it implicit, or you can have it explicit. | |
| This, uh, these contradictions, this, uh, these are the ones that we have. | |
| And we're going to have to go through this. | |
| Someone says, parents, mid-rant at me, phone rings, all civil and polite, and the call ends, rant and abuse start up again. | |
| Yep. Sure. | |
| They have control. | |
| My parents were jerks. | |
| They could not help being awful because they did not want to change. | |
| What? They could not help being awful because they did not want to change. | |
| I don't understand that. | |
| That's a real Gordian nut. | |
| That's a real Gordian nut. | |
| All right. | |
| You are welcome for the help. | |
| Thank you, Nick. | |
| My name is Nick. | |
| What does that mean? |
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