June 6, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Everybody should prefer stealing. | |
| But if people want it to be stolen from, it's no longer stealing. | |
| The category collapses. | |
| It's a self-detonating argument. | |
| It cannot be universalized. | |
| The same thing with rape, assault, and murder. | |
| So, excuse me. | |
| You can disbelieve in UPB in the same way that you can disbelieve that two and two make four. | |
| But if... | |
| I think two and two make five or the color blue or a dragon, right? | |
| Then you would say, not that they're wrong, but that they're crazy. | |
| If somebody were to say to you, the earth is shaped like a banana and a dodecahedron and my armpit at the same time, you wouldn't take that person seriously. | |
| They would have no place in a rational discussion. | |
| So people can reject UPB, but only by saying that two and two make blue. | |
| Or that it's true that all men are mortal. | |
| It's true that Socrates is a man, but it's not true that Socrates is mortal. | |
| It's like, well, no, if all men are mortal and Socrates is a man, then Socrates is mortal. | |
| It's a basic syllogism, right? | |
| We're talking deductive. | |
| UPB is not inductive reasoning. | |
| It's not probability. | |
| It's not odds. | |
| UPB is... | |
| It's deductive logic. | |
| It's not inductive. | |
| It's not odds are. | |
| So people who reject clear deductive reasoning are never taken seriously at all. | |
| Right? | |
| All birds can fly. | |
| A pigeon is a bird. | |
| Therefore, a bird can fly. | |
| A pigeon can fly. | |
| Right? | |
| I mean, whatever. | |
| I mean, you could say, I don't know, emus and ostriches and so on, right? | |
| If somebody just say, well, it's true that I owe you $1,000, but I don't owe you $1,000, people say, like, what? | |
| you just contradict. | |
| So it's true that people can reject UPB, but only by casting themselves out of any rational discussion. | |
| If somebody were to say, I believe that gases both expand and contract when heated. | |
| Say, well, no, no, come on, it's got to be one or the other. | |
| It can't be both, right? | |
| If somebody at the equator says, North is both this way and the opposite of this way, We would say, I don't know what's wrong with your brain, but this is not, right? | |
| It's not, right? | |
| So people can reject UPB once it's widely accepted and so on, and logically true. | |
| People can reject UPB, but nobody would take them seriously. | |
| They'd be completely ejected from rational discussions. | |
| You'd just be like, people would just roll their eyes and say, well, you have some emotional problem or some mental problem or some brain problem, so you can't, like, if somebody says Japan is in Africa, you don't, like, no. | |
| Like, have you seen that guy? | |
| He's on YouTube, and he asks the most blindingly obvious questions, like, in what country is the Panama Canal? | |
| Japan. | |
| Yes. | |
| He says yes at the end of it, with a face of despair. | |
| A face of despair. | |
| So, philosophy can prove secular ethics through UPB. | |
| So, God is the unity upon which moral claims are based. | |
| That's a definition. |
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