July 4, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
03:27
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| All right. | |
| How do people maintain Christian values or even UPB without being prey to weaponized empathy? | |
| So weaponized empathy is when people demand that you feel for them and thus give them resources. | |
| And if you don't, you're a cold-hearted, selfish, unempathetic person. | |
| So the reason we do that is not out of empathy, but out of fear. | |
| So the reason that we give to the poor, like, and I don't mean voluntarily, I mean like through the welfare state, through sort of coerced redistribution. | |
| The reason we do that is because if we don't, at this point anyway, maybe you could argue in the 60s or 70s, but now the reason we keep giving to the poor is that the poor will riot if we don't. | |
| Right? | |
| So it's just easier for politicians to keep giving to the poor because they'll riot if we don't. | |
| Hey, remember the whole peace dividend, the military-industrial complex works the same way. | |
| If we have genuine peace, then we don't pay the warmongers, and the warmongers want to keep provoking and promoting war so that they keep getting paid. | |
| So weaponized empathy is, you know, if there's some relative you don't particularly like and they demand that you come over for their birthday or whatever, and you don't really want to go, you say, oh, well, I'll be nice and I'll go. | |
| It's like, well, no, the reason you don't want to go is because, oh, the reason why you go is because you don't want that person to start being mean to you or spreading lies about you or accusing you of being cold-hearted and unempathetic and attacking you, attacking you. | |
| So most charity is a bribe to keep people from abusing you. | |
| Not all, but most charity is a bribe to keep people from abusing you. | |
| So it's not weaponized empathy. | |
| It's a payoff to prevent an attack. | |
| Like, you know, if you have a little shop in Sicily and the Gumba comes by and says, it's a nice little shop you got here. | |
| It'd be a real shame if something happened to it. | |
| You know, there's been a lot of fires in the neighborhood lately, but don't worry, we can make sure that fire doesn't happen to you if you just pay us a thousand bucks a month. | |
| It's nothing. | |
| It's less than your fire insurance, right? | |
| So whatever, right? | |
| So you don't give the Gumba the money because you want to make sure his kids get his braces. | |
| So you give the guy money so that your shop doesn't get burnt down. | |
| And we are generous, quote generous, a lot of times because we don't want our relationships, our reputations to get burned down. | |
| We don't want the unpleasant process of somebody yelling at us or calling us a bad person. | |
| And so we fundamentally pay the money so we don't see the ugliness in those around us. | |
| I'm not talking all generosity and so on, but we pay so that they continue to pretend to be nice so we don't see what they're really like. | |
| Because if we see what they're really like, we might have some difficult decisions to make, right? | |
| All right. | |
| Let me get that. | |
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| Live with Steph is the best. | |
| Thank you, Steph. | |
| Thank you, Hanu. | |
| I appreciate that. | |
| I appreciate that. | |
| Son of Sam heard voices from the neighbor's dog. | |
| Oh, that's rough. |
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