Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux - The True War in Ukraine! Listener Questions
Aired: 2026-04-24
Duration: 32:43


=== Left Justifies War (08:47) ===

[00:00:00]  All right, sorry, this took a little while to get to, my friends.
[00:00:03]  You had kindly posted questions, and I did record something.
[00:00:08]  It did not take like every one in a hundred or one in two hundred for some reason.
[00:00:13]  I just got crackles, so whatever.
[00:00:15]  I think this will take.
[00:00:17]  So these are questions from Free Domains, Fredemain.locals.com.
[00:00:23]  Somebody writes First followed you on Facebook around 2010.
[00:00:25]  Is Poland still visitable?
[00:00:27]  Are there any other European countries you would recommend that are safe and normal?
[00:00:30]  Love your work, by the way.
[00:00:32]  Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
[00:00:33]  I think I went to Poland in 2017 to do a documentary, which is nine years ago.
[00:00:39]  It was fine then.
[00:00:40]  The borders have remained pretty strong.
[00:00:42]  And especially if you're traveling with women, and especially if the women are going to be traveling on their own at any part, like going out to different museums or whatever, then you just go to the European countries and you sort by sexual assault or rape rapes.
[00:00:57]  And Poland, I think, has 5% of the rape rates.
[00:01:02]  Of other countries in Europe.
[00:01:04]  So that would be my recommendation.
[00:01:07]  Greetings, Steph.
[00:01:08]  What is your take on Putin's special military operation in Ukraine?
[00:01:11]  How justified or unjustified has it been?
[00:01:14]  And what do you speculate the region will end up looking like when the war is over?
[00:01:18]  You can do a search at freedomain.comslash donate for the history of my shows on Ukraine, back to, I think, 2013, 2014, and so on.
[00:01:29]  And that's more of a history.
[00:01:31]  To me, it's not overly complicated.
[00:01:33]  Which is not to say that it's obvious.
[00:01:36]  I know that I'm going to just go on a limb and say that the two can coexist.
[00:01:40]  So, the purpose of the Ukraine war is to get white Christian males killed.
[00:01:46]  This is why there was a deal back in the day between the North American Treaty Organization, in particular, US.
[00:01:55]  I think Bill Clinton signed it in 1993, which basically said to Russia, we want Germany to reunite.
[00:02:03]  Now, Russia, of course, having been invaded by Germany, In living memory, did not want Germany to reunite.
[00:02:10]  But NATO said to Russia, We will let Germany reunite.
[00:02:14]  And, well, we want Germany to reunite.
[00:02:16]  We want you to let that happen because, of course, East Germany was under Soviet control for decades post war to the late 80s.
[00:02:25]  So we want Germany to reunite.
[00:02:28]  You don't.
[00:02:28]  But if you let us reunite Germany, we promise NATO will not expand eastward from Germany.
[00:02:35]  That was a deal.
[00:02:36]  That was a treaty that was signed.
[00:02:38]  And then NATO betrayed Russia in that way.
[00:02:43]  So Germany reunited and NATO kept going eastward until it was right on Russia's doorstep, or at least that was the goal with Ukraine.
[00:02:55]  So.
[00:02:56]  I know, was the CIA funding bioweapons labs right on the border of Russia?
[00:03:01]  I mean, if China was funding bioweapons labs right on the border of America, say in Mexico, America would do that, would act, right?
[00:03:13]  And of course, the people in the eastern part of Ukraine, I think it's the Donbass region, they are ethnically Russian, they've been acted against, and there's a strong Nazi party in Ukraine and so on.
[00:03:24]  So, the general purpose of these kinds of wars, this is what happens on the left, right?
[00:03:29]  The left has very selective outrage regarding coercion or the use of force.
[00:03:38]  So, if you are favored by the left, then they will justify and defend your use of force.
[00:03:48]  So, I mean, we can think of the summer of love riots in 2020 in the middle of a pandemic, based upon to me what was largely the hoax of the noble St. George Floyd and his death and so on.
[00:03:59]  And so, If the left likes you, in other words, if you happen to be part of an ethnicity that votes regularly for the left, like a quarter of Democrat voters are, I think, blacks.
[00:04:12]  So if you're favored by the left, then they will say about all of your violence that it is justified outrage based upon moral harm, racism, police brutality.
[00:04:26]  The same thing happened with Rodney King.
[00:04:29]  Back in the day, Rodney King was filmed attacking cops, and that the cops had to use force.
[00:04:35]  To subdue him, but the media, of course, only showed the video of the cops restraining him or hitting him to prevent him from attacking them.
[00:04:46]  And they certainly didn't show the high speed chase through residential neighborhoods beforehand.
[00:04:52]  And so they fomented riots that cost California billions of dollars, dozens of lives, I think it was thousands of injuries, just brutal.
[00:05:02]  And if you're on the left or support the left, then your violence is justified as.
[00:05:10]  A cornered reaction to an intolerable moral situation, racism, police brutality, and so on.
[00:05:16]  If you are on the right, or at least not supportive of the left, then all of your violence is terrible and wrong and bad and immoral and just plain evil.
[00:05:30]  Understandable violence we have sympathy for versus unprovoked aggression that is evil, right?
[00:05:38]  And Russia is conservative and Christian, and therefore everything Russia does is evil by definition.
[00:05:45]  And so, yeah, the purpose of the war was to provoke Russia into a cornered kind of aggression and then to condemn it with this lava Ukraine and ghost of Kiev and all of this, you know, put your flags in the bio and so on.
[00:06:00]  And of course, because people can't think, they're not taught how to reason, they're not taught any objective morals, they just conform to whatever the media tells them is right or is wrong.
[00:06:13]  If they're told that violent protests over what I believe to be the fentanyl death of a habitual criminal who held a gun to the pregnant belly of a woman to get money for drugs, that violence is good, and therefore, and even they said that racism is a worse scourge than the pandemic.
[00:06:33]  And therefore, the riots in the summer of 2020 were good, but Putin is bad.
[00:06:41]  Because, I mean, you can frame most war, right?
[00:06:44]  Most war is neither good nor evil as a whole.
[00:06:50]  It is just two political leaders fighting for territory and control.
[00:06:54]  Most war, not all, but most.
[00:06:56]  And you can view it, the war, from the perspective of simplistic black and white stuff.
[00:07:04]  I mean, Russia is a pretty dysfunctional country.
[00:07:06]  40% of the moms are single moms.
[00:07:09]  Alcoholism is sky high.
[00:07:11]  The birth rate is collapsing and so on.
[00:07:13]  So it's a pretty dysfunctional country.
[00:07:16]  It's not any kind of heroic entity, sort of foundationally.
[00:07:22]  So there's a lot to criticize about in Russia.
[00:07:25]  And what you can do is you can say Putin's unprovoked attack upon poor, innocent, virtuous little.
[00:07:33]  Ukraine, and then it's David and Goliath, and it's good and evil, and there's no history, and everything is just made up on the spot.
[00:07:41]  And this appeals to ideologues and idiots.
[00:07:45]  Ideologues are just high IQ idiots.
[00:07:47]  Whereas if you sort of look at the history and the complexity, and the color revolution in Ukraine, and the push up of the borders, and the perhaps funded bioweapons labs, and the Nazi party, and the mistreatment of the Russians in the eastern part of Ukraine, and so on, then you see it's a complex situation.
[00:08:06]  But the upshot is that the white Christians are a thorn in the side of those who want to expand political power, and in particular, white Christian males.
[00:08:20]  I'm sure you've seen this map of America that if only people of color voted, then the map would be entirely Democrat.
[00:08:28]  If only white males voted, the map would be almost entirely Republican.
[00:08:32]  So, from the leftist perspective, white males are the enemy.
[00:08:37]  They support small government, free markets, free speech.
[00:08:40]  Those are the big, big sins.
[00:08:42]  Small government, free market, free speech.
[00:08:45]  That's in general.

=== Fragile House of Cards (14:11) ===

[00:08:47]  And marriage white women are a pretty close second.
[00:08:53]  Single white women are overwhelmingly Democrats, so they're fine, which is why the Democrats promote hostility towards men and try to keep women single.
[00:09:03]  It's just sowing seeds of unhappiness to grow crops of.
[00:09:07]  Leftist voting political power.
[00:09:09]  Women who are single feel raw, nervous, skinless, naked, and unprotected, and therefore run to a protector, which is the government, and they prefer security to liberty and so on.
[00:09:20]  So, yeah, as a whole, the goal is to try to get, try to remove from the world as a whole as many people or groups, or I guess in this case, genders, who oppose the socialist or communist expansion of political power.
[00:09:36]  So, I think that's what it's all about.
[00:09:38]  All right.
[00:09:39]  That's my theory.
[00:09:41]  So, next question With the rise of AI enhanced genetic engineering, do we have to worry as much about dysgenic trends in our civilizations, being that potentially soon we can offer genetic enhancements?
[00:09:51]  Where in these humans, we will be an amalgamation of the best genes of humans in totality.
[00:09:57]  Well, that's interesting.
[00:10:00]  So, the government is about taking resources from the more successful and giving them to the less successful, taking money from people who make good decisions and giving money to people who make bad decisions.
[00:10:13]  And given that good and bad decisions are, in general, higher IQ or at least have wiser sources or origins, it generally is taking money.
[00:10:25]  From smarter people and giving it to somewhat less smart people.
[00:10:32]  So, enhanced genetic engineering, well, I mean, this is assuming that it is available to the poor.
[00:10:40]  It is assuming that they can afford it.
[00:10:41]  It is assuming that the poor want children who are going to be considerably smarter than they are.
[00:10:47]  And also, and this is not inconsiderable, it is very much against nature to genetically engineer in this kind of way.
[00:10:58]  So, people of similar intelligence levels tend to end up together.
[00:11:02]  People with similar levels of attractiveness tend to end up together.
[00:11:07]  And there's sort of reasons for that in terms of compatibility and similar worldviews, similar life experience, and so on.
[00:11:14]  And in general, there's a regression to the mean or an advancement to the mean in that, you know, two parents with an IQ of 130, they'll have a child smarter than average, but probably not as smart as they are.
[00:11:28]  And two parents with lower IQs will generally have a kid who's a little smarter than they are, but not as smart as the average.
[00:11:34]  You know, it just kind of evens out over time.
[00:11:36]  This is why you don't have to worry outside of politics of permanent economic dynasties or bloodlines of infinite wealth and so on.
[00:11:45]  Because no matter how much wealth you generate, sooner or later, some dunderhead will come along and blow it all.
[00:11:51]  And it's usually sooner rather than later.
[00:11:53]  They call it shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in three generations, shirt sleeves to fitted ties and suits, back to shirt sleeves.
[00:12:00]  And this happened in my family.
[00:12:01]  We were aristocracy for almost a thousand years.
[00:12:04]  And then my grandfather drank and sold and ran them.
[00:12:08]  Even though we had historical aristocratic privilege, I was tossed down to the bottom of society and had to crawl my way back up as best I could.
[00:12:18]  So, you know, which gives strengths and weaknesses and all that.
[00:12:21]  So the big challenge is going to be it's very much not natural.
[00:12:25]  It certainly happens, but it's very unusual for less intelligent parents to give birth to a very, very intelligent child.
[00:12:36]  I remember reading the biography of some German writer and poet and all around savant, and his parents were in despair that they could not keep up with him, that he was excellent at everything, that they couldn't teach him anything, and it was very frustrating and difficult.
[00:12:52]  So let's say that you've got parents with an IQ of, say, 90, which is fine.
[00:12:57]  Again, it's just a, it's like height, right?
[00:12:59]  Parents with an IQ of 90, and they're able to reliably give birth to kids with an IQ of 140.
[00:13:06]  Extremely unusual situation.
[00:13:09]  And without precedent as a widespread phenomenon throughout all of human evolution.
[00:13:14]  Again, it does happen.
[00:13:16]  You know, every now and then, parents who are five foot four will give birth to a six foot eight child, but it's extraordinarily rare.
[00:13:24]  So the challenge is going to be what is it like to be parented by people a couple of standard deviations lower than you in terms of intelligence?
[00:13:33]  Now, my mother, of course, emotionally was a mess, but intelligent for sure.
[00:13:38]  So.
[00:13:39]  I don't know how that's going to be.
[00:13:41]  It's an interesting phenomenon.
[00:13:43]  I certainly know that growing up being or being raised by a woman who was seriously not wise, you know, full of vanity and hostility and tension and blaming others and making excuses and manipulative.
[00:13:58]  So, growing up with someone who was not wise was kind of brutal, to be honest.
[00:14:03]  It was kind of brutal.
[00:14:03]  Because you look at the person and you say, okay, I'm eight, I can make better decisions than this.
[00:14:09]  I have a more realistic view of the world than you do, and I'm Eight or nine, or whatever.
[00:14:13]  It's pretty rough.
[00:14:14]  All right.
[00:14:16]  Steph, somewhat heavy question here.
[00:14:18]  How would you deal with the loss of an unborn child?
[00:14:21]  Assuming you're assuming that never happened.
[00:14:23]  So, how would I deal with the loss of an unborn child?
[00:14:27]  I mean, life is a fragile affair, and all the things that need to work together to have someone survive, to have a sperm and an egg meet to produce an actual human being who survives to adulthood, it's a whole house of cards.
[00:14:42]  I mean, a third of pregnancies.
[00:14:45]  Can end in abortion.
[00:14:47]  Sorry.
[00:14:48]  Well, I guess that's true in some places, but a third of pregnancies can be terminated through miscarriage, which is just the body rejecting a fetus that is failing to develop or has significant problems or abnormalities or dies or something like that.
[00:15:03]  So it is a regular and recurring risk.
[00:15:09]  And there's a great deal of sorrow.
[00:15:12]  And I think that just because the baby wasn't born doesn't mean you shouldn't have a little funeral because you need to have.
[00:15:19]  A marker in your hearts and minds of someone who failed to make it, who was a very brief member of the family, and there's a great loss.
[00:15:28]  And losing, in a sense, what you don't have, like an unborn child, whether you pass it naturally or you have a DNC or something like that, it is harder in some ways to mourn what you didn't have.
[00:15:40]  If you have a beloved father who dies, that's very vivid to you.
[00:15:44]  For me, mourning not having a father in any particularly useful way was tough because you're mourning.
[00:15:52]  What isn't there?
[00:15:53]  So I think it's a view that makes sense that this was a brief member of the family who didn't make it.
[00:16:01]  And there's a great deal of sorrow.
[00:16:04]  Have a little funeral, say some words, sprinkle some ashes, whatever you need to do, plant a tree, plant a flower, and mourn.
[00:16:13]  And then, of course, there is an aspect that if the child dies in utero, then it is a kind of kindness in a way, because if a child with significant genetic issues ends up being born, that can be all kinds of tragic in the long run.
[00:16:32]  And I mean, certainly nature believes it's more tragic in a sense.
[00:16:37]  So we can look and say it's very sad, it's very tragic, but in the long run, it could be worse.
[00:16:44]  All right.
[00:16:45]  What are the most effective means of depopulation currently in effect besides the big obvious ones, antenatalism and student debt?
[00:16:51]  Yeah, I mean, just media.
[00:16:53]  Just media.
[00:16:54]  Environmentalism, of course, is a big one.
[00:16:56]  Don't have kids because it's bad for the environment.
[00:17:00]  And I think 10 times more money is spent on the elderly than on the young with the government because the elderly vote and the young don't vote or don't vote consistently or don't vote enough to make that big a difference.
[00:17:14]  What happens there is when you pay for the old and tax the young, then what happens is you are transferring resources from the fertile to the infertile.
[00:17:29]  And whatever you tax diminishes fertility, whatever you subsidize.
[00:17:33]  I mean, it's not like people aren't born old, but you certainly are taxing fertility to pay for infertility, which is going to drive down the birth rate.
[00:17:41]  So there's that.
[00:17:42]  Propaganda, of course.
[00:17:44]  Men are, women are gold digging, blah, blah, blah, or whores, you know, this kind of stuff.
[00:17:50]  Men are immature and stupid and don't know what they want.
[00:17:57]  And men are just sex obsessed and sex crazed and so on, right?
[00:18:02]  And women are vain.
[00:18:03]  And like, so just putting out propaganda that takes the worst elements of either sex and cranks it up to try and cover the entire gender, the entire sex.
[00:18:14]  That is another one, of course, that's fairly.
[00:18:16]  Obvious.
[00:18:18]  Showing movies with unhappy mothers, very key.
[00:18:21]  So you see movies, I think it's sort of like terms of endearment, where a woman suffers horribly, dies, of course, and so, and it's all the worse because she's a mother.
[00:18:32]  And then there are other, was it My Girl or something like that, with the woman who ended up in Veep, I think it was.
[00:18:39]  But children who die, the sorrow, the horror, the suffering.
[00:18:46]  So, you are programming women to associate motherhood with children dying and suffering and so on, showing a family life as constantly fractious and fighting and bad and wrong.
[00:19:01]  So, the Bridgetts of Madison County, with Clint Eastwood and Merrill Weeb Streep, that is, you know, the men are constantly banging around, the screen doors banging and They don't listen and they're right.
[00:19:15]  That's a big thing, too.
[00:19:17]  And siblings fighting that's the terms of endearment thing siblings fighting like crazy, always in combat.
[00:19:24]  That's a big thing.
[00:19:26]  He'll be the allergy, dysfunctional families, children fighting, and so on.
[00:19:32]  Stand by me, children dying.
[00:19:35]  There are two children, of course, who die the brother, John Cusack plays him, and then the boy who dies down by the train tracks.
[00:19:43]  The young man and showing lots of bullying.
[00:19:47]  So, your children are going to be bullied.
[00:19:48]  It's going to be awful and so on.
[00:19:51]  Children getting sick is going to be expensive and a problem.
[00:19:55]  And then you show mother is constantly tired and caring for babies.
[00:19:58]  You always show babies constantly crying and never sort of cooing and having fun with the mother, which they do from a very early age.
[00:20:07]  And you show exhaustion and you show stress and you show tension and you show.
[00:20:13]  I remember a sitcom somewhere back in the day where the woman was saying, you know, I've got kids and I've got a job.
[00:20:19]  And when I'm at work, I want to be at home.
[00:20:21]  And when I'm at home, I want to be at work and I don't feel settled.
[00:20:23]  Just, you know, discontent and so on.
[00:20:25]  Of course, promoting working, promoting fear of men so that women say, well, I mean, a man could leave and I'm going to need my own source of income and I'm going to be broke if he just decides to take off.
[00:20:38]  And then, for men, of course, most of these sort of modern female stories, Are about infidelity.
[00:20:47]  You promote single motherhood, right?
[00:20:49]  That's the Bridget Jones diary, right?
[00:20:53]  So a single motherhood.
[00:20:56]  Is promoted because it kills the birth rate in the next generation.
[00:21:01]  So you've got to be patient with these kinds of things as a whole, and you promote insecurity in love and security in government, right?
[00:21:11]  So the man could leave you, but the government will always be there.
[00:21:14]  And since women are drawn to resources as opposed to mere affection, then saying the government will always be here for you.
[00:21:24]  Men scorn you, men leave you, men cheat on you.
[00:21:28]  Gina Davis in The Accidental Tourist.
[00:21:32]  Men cheat on you, but the government will always be there.
[00:21:33]  The government will always praise you and say you're a strong, brave, noble, heroic, independent, feminist, glorious single mother, girl power, girl boss, blah, blah, blah.
[00:21:46]  So women can be drawn to flattery over criticism, and women are very sensitive to criticism.
[00:21:52]  And the more that women get praised, the more sensitive and sometimes hysterical they become in the face of criticism.
[00:21:57]  And so the government and the politicians always praise.
[00:22:01]  The women and the men might criticize them.
[00:22:05]  So, in school, of course, you praise women, you praise the girls, and you denigrate the males.
[00:22:11]  And this programs the girls to look for praise from authority rather than standards from contemporaries.
[00:22:20]  That lowers the birth rate as well, because then a man who has standards, right?
[00:22:26]  Because women want successful men, and successful men become successful because they have strict standards and personal accountability.
[00:22:33]  And they hold others accountable.
[00:22:35]  That's how you become successful.
[00:22:38]  And what happens then is women want successful men.
[00:22:43]  Successful men try to hold women to some kind of standards.
[00:22:46]  And then a lot of women will respond to that with anger and say, you're toxic and controlling and a bully and blah, blah, blah.
[00:22:52]  And then they just run back to whoever praises them, which is the government, the media, and some other creep who just wants to get in their pants and so on.

=== Religion Cannot Control Men (08:02) ===

[00:22:58]  All right.
[00:23:01]  This is not an argument against UPB.
[00:23:03]  You've already proved it eloquently and elegantly many times.
[00:23:05]  Can UPB function effectively?
[00:23:07]  As the dominant ethical framework in a society with groups that have vastly different average IQ levels.
[00:23:13]  Yeah.
[00:23:14]  I mean, I do think that UBB is a way, way simpler.
[00:23:20]  Okay, let's just take somebody with a lower IQ.
[00:23:23]  And remember, IQ is only 80% heritable, which means you have 20% to work with, which is a lot.
[00:23:31]  It's a lot to work with, right?
[00:23:34]  I mean, obviously, 20% of 100 is 20, so that's the difference between 80 and 100.
[00:23:39]  So there's a lot with IQ to work with.
[00:23:43]  And in my mind, UPB is the easiest and most comprehensible moral framework for everyone, which means it significantly benefits.
[00:23:56]  The least intelligent in the same way that when I first got computers, like you booted them up and you just got a ready key with a flashing cursor and you had to figure out what to do with the computer from there.
[00:24:09]  And now, you know, you boot up an iPad and you've got a touch screen and all these steps, it guides you through, you swipe and swipe and swish around and so on.
[00:24:18]  You get all of these.
[00:24:19]  So you can use computers way easier now because they have an easier user interface.
[00:24:23]  UPB is the GUI interface for morals.
[00:24:27]  And the problem, of course, With Christian morals or religious morals, is that religious morals are an argument from authority.
[00:24:36]  Do it because.
[00:24:38]  And religious morals have evolved, the more successful religions have evolved a moral set that appeals to everyone, right?
[00:24:45]  Which is why you have turn the other cheek and forgive and vengeance and an eye for an eye, right?
[00:24:52]  So if you tend to be more like weaker or more forgiving by nature, then you can gravitate towards the forgiveness part.
[00:24:59]  If you're more irascible and stern, By nature, then you can gravitate towards the eye for an eye part and so on.
[00:25:06]  And this is true in almost all religions that have evolved.
[00:25:09]  They are like disco balls, they have the sort of little mirrors that can reflect back everyone's personal preferences, and you can find justification for anything you want.
[00:25:18]  You can find justifications for violence in the Bible.
[00:25:21]  You can find justifications for peace in the Bible.
[00:25:24]  You can find justifications for hitting children in the Bible, at least that's what people think.
[00:25:29]  And you can find justifications for not hitting children.
[00:25:32]  In the Bible.
[00:25:33]  And so that is complicated.
[00:25:36]  And that tends to appeal to people's narcissistic pre existing personality types and extend them and expand them to infinity.
[00:25:44]  So if you are by nature a sort of angry and vengeful person, and I don't say this for judgment, just, you know, some people are more like that, then you can find in the Bible justifications which turn your personal emotional habits and preferences and nature into universal divine commandments, which means you don't get to temper them very much.
[00:26:04]  And that's a problem.
[00:26:05]  So, if you have a highly contradictory argument by authority, that's very confusing, which is why it is easily used to manipulate people and so on, right?
[00:26:16]  I mean, you can point to texts in most religions that say, peace is the word and blah, blah, blah.
[00:26:23]  And then you can point to other sections where they say, you know, fight, fight, fight.
[00:26:26]  And that's kind of inevitable, right?
[00:26:29]  Because if you have peace, peace, peace only, forgive, forgive, forgive only, then Aggressive people don't really get drawn to that religion.
[00:26:38]  And of course, religion has to appeal to males and females, usually, certainly in a state where there's more male and female equality, because males create religion and women transmit.
[00:26:48]  Sorry, males create culture and women transmit culture, for the most part.
[00:26:54]  And.
[00:26:55]  Which is why women tend to be a little bit less original when it comes to the creation of culture, with the exception of novels.
[00:27:01]  Women are fantastic at writing novels, good storytellers, at least modern novels, not so much in the past.
[00:27:08]  Or at least they weren't quite as successful as men in the past.
[00:27:12]  So you have to have a religion that appeals to males and females.
[00:27:19]  Again, if you live in a purely patriarchal culture, then the religion only has to appeal to males because they can enforce the religion through violence on the females.
[00:27:27]  But if you have a more equal, Religious structure, which Christianity tends to be, then you have to have a religion that appeals to males and females.
[00:27:36]  And males tend to be an eye for an eye, and females tend to be forgive and turn the other cheek and so on for obvious reasons of cohesion and physical size and strength and aggression.
[00:27:49]  So I would argue that UPB, I've explained it now to a whole bunch of kids, pretty young over the years, and I've explained it to people.
[00:27:58]  And if you're receptive, it's pretty easy to get.
[00:28:00]  I mean, I explained it to a Philosophy professor who was openly hostile towards me, and he had to accept it within about three to five minutes because it's that easy to explain.
[00:28:13]  So, somebody who completely disagrees with you, thinks you're a terrible guy and a bad reasoner, as this philosophy or logic professor did, came on the show, and I convinced him of UPP in three to five minutes once I really started making the case.
[00:28:27]  So, it is really the simplest and easiest moral system, and therefore, if we're always going to have less intelligent people, And saying, well, they need religion is a problem because religion can be used to program people to do just about anything.
[00:28:45]  Religion, Christianity, has been used to attack those opposed to Christianity and also to invite them in and subsidize them.
[00:28:53]  So, unfortunately, Christianity, because it's an argument from authority that is a disco ball of infinite back and forth and infinite ways of expressing things to appeal to as many people as possible.
[00:29:05]  It's completely subjective.
[00:29:07]  All right.
[00:29:09]  How can I hold the line against everyday liars and manipulators without sacrificing my ethics or letting them take advantage of me?
[00:29:15]  Yeah, you can't.
[00:29:16]  You can't.
[00:29:18]  You can't control corruption except through coercion.
[00:29:23]  And I'm not arguing that you'd be coercive, but if you have someone who's some sort of pathological liar in your environment, then you can't control that lying.
[00:29:34]  You can't control it.
[00:29:35]  You can't fix it.
[00:29:36]  You can't do anything about it.
[00:29:38]  Like if they're really terrible liars and cheats and you name it, then you can take them to court and you can get a judgment or you can get thrown in prison or whatever it is, right?
[00:29:51]  But you can't control corrupt people in your life through words.
[00:29:56]  I'm going to say, old line, why are you quoting laws to men with swords, right?
[00:30:01]  You can't talk liars into being better.
[00:30:03]  You can't bully people into being better.
[00:30:06]  You can't reason with people who are devoted to corruption.
[00:30:10]  So, as far as holding the line against everyday liars and manipulators, you can't.
[00:30:16]  Because liars and manipulators will always be looking for a way to chisel and achieve a chance advantage.
[00:30:22]  You know, there are some type of people, a certain type of people, the moment they hear the rule, they're automatically drawn to find an exception.
[00:30:28]  To weasel their way out of things, to find some fuzzy definition in a contract so that they can get away with whatever they want.
[00:30:35]  And you just can't do business with people like that.
[00:30:37]  Like, I do handshake business or I don't do business.
[00:30:40]  I do business with people who have honesty, honor, and integrity or I don't do business.
[00:30:46]  It's like saying, how can I write a contract so that no one will ever cheat me?
[00:30:50]  It's like, well, if people want to cheat you, they'll find a way.
[00:30:52]  The best thing to do is just not be around people like that, but you can't control them with your will or eloquence or language or whatever, right?

=== Preventing Monopoly Cheaters (01:42) ===

[00:31:01]  All right.
[00:31:01]  Somebody says, not a question, but I just wanted to let you know that your video, How Society Betrays Children, is one of my all time favorites.
[00:31:07]  I mirrored it on my channel and I appreciate that.
[00:31:11]  I will republish that.
[00:31:12]  I will repost that.
[00:31:14]  Astrology compatibility, yes or no?
[00:31:17]  I think that there's a little bit of truth to astrology in climates where winter is very different from summer.
[00:31:24]  So in a cold climate, if you're born in the fall, then your first six months, eight months, whatever, is just indoors and winter.
[00:31:35]  And people and all of that.
[00:31:38]  So, you're probably a little bit more focused on people and a little bit more focused on conversation.
[00:31:44]  You probably, your language skills develop faster and further and so on.
[00:31:47]  So, there's certain things I think that happen with that.
[00:31:50]  Let's say that you're born in the early spring, then your first six months are of, you know, glorious spring and summer and being outdoors and the wilds and the scents and probably a little bit less conversation and so on.
[00:32:02]  So, I do think that certain times of year that you're born, especially in warm, cold climates, is going to have some.
[00:32:09]  Impact on you.
[00:32:09]  It's got nothing to do with, of course, the actions and motions of different distant stars.
[00:32:14]  What prevents a monopoly?
[00:32:16]  The free market prevents a monopoly.
[00:32:17]  And of course, if you're concerned about preventing monopolies, then you should not enshrine one through the government in law.
[00:32:25]  All right.
[00:32:27]  I hope that helps.
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