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Stefan Molyneux

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00:00:00All right, more questions from the fine listenership on X, part five.

00:00:08Why do you do philosophy, Steph?

00:00:10Well, it's funny because I would say that I don't so much do philosophy as philosophy does me.

00:00:18And what I mean by that is the ideas, the inspirations, the arguments, the clarifications

00:00:23come fast and furious, and I just kind of channel them.

00:00:30Of course, I put work into refining and all that kind of stuff, but there's something

00:00:34that songwriters talk about.

00:00:35Roger Hutchinson talks about this with The Logical Song, where he says, like, who knows

00:00:39where that comes from?

00:00:40And Bob Dylan says, you know, like, if I could write those kinds of songs every day, that's

00:00:46what I would do, right?

00:00:47I mean, how long has it been since Paul McCartney had a hit, right?

00:00:50Well, he would write yesterday every day if he could, right?

00:00:55But do you write the songs or do you just kind of prepare yourself with rigor and then go

00:01:02through the process of creation?

00:01:04But I won't say the songs write you because that's kind of cliched, but you don't kind

00:01:09of do songwriting.

00:01:11Songwriting kind of does you.

00:01:12So I don't do philosophy.

00:01:14Philosophy kind of does me.

00:01:14A lot of the stuff comes out of the unconscious and out of a certain kind of semi-feverish inspiration

00:01:20the analogies pop into my head and I shape them and move them, but it is not something

00:01:29that I do.

00:01:29It is something that is almost done unto me.

00:01:31This is what people who create say, that they're just kind of channeling something deeper

00:01:35or wider than themselves.

00:01:36And that certainly is the case for me.

00:01:39And I, you know, try to be rigorous and make sure that it's not just some seismic unconscious

00:01:45blurb that echoes out across the world, confusing people, but to try and shape it into something

00:01:49positive.

00:01:50But I would not say that I do philosophy.

00:01:52I would say that philosophy does me.

00:01:53Now, of course, I have the choice as to whether I express it or not.

00:01:56But philosophy is the most essential aspect of being human.

00:02:01It is what we do that the animals don't.

00:02:04And it is what everyone does.

00:02:07Everyone is philosophical.

00:02:11Everyone justifies what they do.

00:02:12Everybody appeals to abstractions.

00:02:14Everybody universalizes it.

00:02:15You can see this with little kids from very early on.

00:02:18I know this from my own daughter, from working in a daycare for many years.

00:02:21Kids abstract, kids generalize, kids universalize.

00:02:25And so philosophy is the most essential aspect of what we do.

00:02:28And philosophy is the only thing that can save us from evil.

00:02:32Now, evil will use philosophy against you.

00:02:34If you do not use philosophy against evil, you will lose.

00:02:38Evil is armed, right?

00:02:39And if you're not armed, you will lose.

00:02:44So you either use philosophy to protect yourselves from evil or evil will use philosophy to destroy

00:02:49you.

00:02:50All right.

00:02:51Are we unwitting slaves trapped in a prison planet?

00:02:53And if so, how do we escape this situation?

00:02:55I think what you're talking about there is childhood.

00:02:58If your parents are violent or dysfunctional or brutal or molesty or whatever horrible things

00:03:05might have been going on, then you are, of course, an unwitting slave as a child and

00:03:09trapped in a prison planet because you can't get out of your parents' household.

00:03:14And I hate to say it, but I can virtually guarantee that no one and nothing is coming to save you.

00:03:20So if you have this feeling of being an unwitting slave trapped in a prison planet, well, then

00:03:27you're probably thinking of your own childhood.

00:03:30And, of course, you have infinitely more choices available to you as an adult than you ever

00:03:34did as a child.

00:03:36So to escape the situation of being trapped in dysfunctional relationships, my recipe has

00:03:41been the same for well over 20 years, which is you are honest about your thoughts and feelings

00:03:46about the relationship, the complaints that you have, the issues you have, and particularly

00:03:52with your parents, the fact that you had no power or independence or choice as a child.

00:03:57So you're honest about that.

00:04:00And what you do is you work to try and improve the relationship.

00:04:04If you can improve the relationship, fantastic.

00:04:06Or if your parents improve the relationship, if they admit fault and maybe get some therapy

00:04:10or work to improve, fantastic.

00:04:12It does happen.

00:04:13It's rare, but it does happen.

00:04:15And if your parents continue to be dismissive, gaslighting, abusive, mental torturous, you can

00:04:22choose to stay in the relationship or not, but you don't have to stay.

00:04:25All right.

00:04:25Have you ever done an episode on epistemology?

00:04:28I would love a deep dive into that.

00:04:29Pironian skepticism versus academic skepticism.

00:04:32Descartes' basic problems of knowledge about the world, foundationalism, coherentism, infinitism,

00:04:37et cetera, but in a layman-friendly format.

00:04:40That's a fine question.

00:04:41I have done a whole Introduction to Philosophy series.

00:04:44It's a 19-part series that you can find at fdrurl.com.

00:04:50No, you know what?

00:04:51FDR Podcasts.

00:04:52Sorry, fdrpodcast.com.

00:04:54Just do a search for Introduction.

00:04:55You can get that.

00:04:57I have done a history of philosophy.

00:05:00It's up to 23 entries.

00:05:03I've yet to take on Kant because he's so enormous.

00:05:06I'll need some time to prepare for that.

00:05:08But yeah, epistemology, the study of the standards of valid knowledge.

00:05:15How do we know something is true and something is false?

00:05:18Very, very briefly, of course, reason and evidence.

00:05:21Determine truth from falsehood.

00:05:23Logical consistency means that something might be true.

00:05:26Combined with empirical evidence means that it is true.

00:05:28And if you think of sort of the famous argument, all men are mortal.

00:05:35Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal.

00:05:37Well, that's reason.

00:05:38It's consistent.

00:05:39And it's also based on evidence, which is that everyone dies.

00:05:41So, all right.

00:05:4318.

00:05:43Why?

00:05:43What was the plan once they built the Tower of Babel and got so high?

00:05:47Yes.

00:05:48Yes, yes, yes.

00:05:49Well, the Tower of Babel is kind of an analogy for the development of reason, science, and philosophy.

00:05:56So, what I mean by that, of course, is that human beings, as they gain heights in conceptual

00:06:06knowledge and ability, begin to approach the contradictory nature of the definition of

00:06:12God-consciousness without material form, which doesn't exist.

00:06:16Something which is older than the universe, which is kind of a contradiction.

00:06:20Something which creates the universe, which itself was not created, is sort of a contradiction.

00:06:24Being all-knowing and all-powerful is a contradiction.

00:06:27If you're all-knowing, you know the future, which means you're powerless to change it.

00:06:30So, you can't be both all-powerful and all-knowing.

00:06:32So, as human beings start to ascend the heights of reason and science and knowledge, they begin

00:06:39to doubt the existence of God.

00:06:43And so, as people begin to develop knowledge of moral philosophy, they begin to doubt the

00:06:50validity of brute political power.

00:06:54And, of course, as this knowledge began to spread and grow, what did God do?

00:06:57Well, he smashed it up and he scattered people, he gave them different languages, he split them

00:07:01up and so on.

00:07:02And, of course, as people begin to have skepticism about the moral validity of brute political

00:07:10power, well, what happens?

00:07:13Well, governments split people up, divide people, introduce people with different languages so

00:07:18that there's less cohesion and so on.

00:07:20So, it's the same thing.

00:07:21All right.

00:07:23Is the race for AGI the race for world supremacy?

00:07:27The first one that gets it must destroy the others so that they maintain power?

00:07:31I don't think so.

00:07:32I don't think so.

00:07:33Supremacy is based upon political power, not on AI.

00:07:38So, those who are the most willing to use political power, particularly against their enemies,

00:07:42tend to win.

00:07:43So, let's see, if a government is to be of, for, and by the people, what incentives should

00:07:49it be providing, as it seems historically, that only can incentivize, that they only can

00:07:53incentivize their own personal interests?

00:07:56Yeah.

00:07:57So, most people, most people, when they think of the government, they're really only thinking

00:08:03of their parents.

00:08:04That's all.

00:08:06There's nothing more or nothing less or nothing deeper or, in a way, nothing more shallow

00:08:11than that basic fact.

00:08:13When people are talking about the government, they are talking about their own parents.

00:08:19When leftists are talking about the government, they're thinking about their own mothers.

00:08:23When people on the right are talking about the government, they're thinking about their

00:08:26own fathers.

00:08:28They don't really pierce through the veil of parental authority to discover the true

00:08:32nature of political power.

00:08:34So, if you look at people's views of the government, that the government should, what should the

00:08:40government do?

00:08:40Well, you know, it should give you money when you're poor.

00:08:43It should give you money when you're broke.

00:08:44Well, that's what parents do.

00:08:45The government should pay for your health care.

00:08:47Well, that's what parents do.

00:08:49Right?

00:08:51Governments should educate you.

00:08:52Well, that's what parents should do.

00:08:55Right?

00:08:55Governments should make sure everything is fair between citizens.

00:08:59Well, that's what parents do, particularly mothers, between siblings.

00:09:03Let's make sure everything is kind of fair.

00:09:05Right?

00:09:06The government should intervene to help the less fortunate.

00:09:09Well, that's parents intervening to make sure that the weakest and youngest child gets

00:09:13an equal share of food.

00:09:14Right?

00:09:14So, people aren't talking about governments at all.

00:09:17They're simply talking about parents, which is why when you talk about a stateless society,

00:09:21people freak out because then they're thinking, what, how are things going to get done?

00:09:25In the same way that if parents say to a five-year-old, we're no longer going to supply you

00:09:29with food and shelter and health care and education, the five-year-old, how can these things

00:09:33be provided?

00:09:34Right?

00:09:34They don't, because they're five.

00:09:36Right?

00:09:36So, most people, when it comes to the state, and this is why people get so peculiarly intense

00:09:42about politics, they're not, they're not talking about the government.

00:09:48They're talking about their parents.

00:09:49And particularly if you have bad or neglectful parents, then a lot of people want the government

00:09:54to make up for all of that.

00:09:55But, of course, when you want the government to be like your parents, it means that you stay

00:09:58yourself in a state of perpetual childhood, forever reaching and manipulating.

00:10:06And people, of course, say, well, I'm going to bring pressure to bear.

00:10:10Kids, they're going to enact their parents, whine to their parents, they're going to try

00:10:13and control and manipulate from a helpless standpoint.

00:10:15Their parents are going to beg their parents to do things, and the parents are going to

00:10:18make promises that the parents break, but then the kids are going to get upset.

00:10:21Right?

00:10:21I mean, that's voting, right?

00:10:22We want the government to do this, and the government promises to do this, and this doesn't

00:10:27happen, and people get mad, and they start it all over again.

00:10:29I mean, honestly, people are just functioning in a very primitive state of childhood with

00:10:36regards to the state, and they are simply viewing the government as a parent, right?

00:10:43And government finances are mysterious and opaque to most people.

00:10:48And, of course, kids just want their parents to pay for things.

00:10:50They don't understand the finances of their parents, and so on, right?

00:10:54So, and, of course, if you were to say to a kid, you say to a five-year-old, well, daddy

00:11:00might have to borrow the ten bucks to buy you candy.

00:11:05What's the kid going to say?

00:11:06Yeah, great, I get my candy.

00:11:07I don't care about the, I don't really understand, I don't really care about the borrowing,

00:11:10I just, I just, I just want the candy, right?

00:11:13Or, you know, if the kid wants a rocking horse, and the parent says, well, we're going to

00:11:16have to put on a payment plan, and, you know, we might have to be able to buy

00:11:19less later on, maybe.

00:11:21Kid's just like, give me the rocking horse, I don't care about that other stuff, right?

00:11:24And that's the same thing, of course, when it comes to government spending, and

00:11:26they don't really understand, they just want, they just want the free stuff, they just want

00:11:30the cool stuff, and so on, right?

00:11:33So, if a government is to be of, for, and by the people, what does that, what does that

00:11:38mean?

00:11:38Well, governments are supposed to serve the people, through their power and authority,

00:11:43the government's power and authority.

00:11:45And, of course, parents are supposed to serve their children through their power and authority.

00:11:50Oh, governments are supposed to do what's best for the people, even if the people don't

00:11:54like it.

00:11:55And parents are supposed to do what's best for their children, even if their children don't

00:11:59like it.

00:12:00And, for most people, of course, governments are authorized to use force, although they don't

00:12:04really think of it that way. They just think of it as discipline and consequences and punishment

00:12:08and FAFO and things like that. And in the same way, parents are supposed to use coercion,

00:12:16violent spanking, confinement to rooms, it's like prison, and the naughty corner or sitting on the

00:12:23naughty step or something like that, supposed to use the force gently and blah, blah, blah. So

00:12:27in the same way, governments can only keep order through using force. Parents can only keep order

00:12:32and install discipline through using force. Honestly, people, like 99.9% of people never

00:12:37break out of thinking of the government in terms of the family, and it doesn't work, of course, right?

00:12:44All right. If everything we see, feel, smell, and touch is just the same type of atoms arranged

00:12:50differently, and each atom is 98% empty space, then I'll be experiencing a simulated hologram.

00:12:54That doesn't, uh, that doesn't make any sense at all. I mean, if the atoms are rejected,

00:13:02atoms aren't simulated. But I would, I would strongly, strongly, strongly urge and caution you

00:13:07to stay the ever-living fuck away from these kinds of ideas. Like this sort of end of men in black stuff,

00:13:13right, where the whole universe is like a marble in some alien. Like, don't stay the fuck away

00:13:20from these kinds of ideas. They are literally demonic. They will mess up with your sense of

00:13:27reality. They will screw with your sense of ambition. Everything turns into a waking dream.

00:13:31You will be dissociated. You're defensive. Life will pass you by, and you'll get increasingly

00:13:36aggressive. And whatever you invest into, you defend. And whatever you defend, you spread.

00:13:43Right. So, if some turbo-sophist bullshit artist has convinced you in this ridiculous simulation

00:13:50hypothesis, then you're going to invest in it, and you're going to make decisions based upon it,

00:13:56and you're going to be dreamy and distracted and dissociated. You're going to waste your life

00:14:00because there's no difference between playing a video game and being in a simulation.

00:14:05So, you will invest in this, and you will not have moral courage. You will not do the right thing.

00:14:12You will not passionately pursue things because it's all a simulation, and you're above it all. And

00:14:17you're going to spend years or decades of your life thrashing around at this useless swamp

00:14:23of narcissism masquerading as simulation theory. And then, when people try to disprove it from you,

00:14:30you're going to fight a tooth and nail. Because if you spend years wasting your life, to some degree,

00:14:36because of this simulation theory nonsense, then, if it turns out that you were wrong,

00:14:41you have fucked up enormously. Like, catastrophically. And not only have you fucked up enormously,

00:14:47but you probably spread these ideas to others, and this mental infection of dissociation called

00:14:51simulation theory has infected others, and you can't go fix their lives. You will have become

00:14:57a pretty bad guy. Stay away from this stuff. If you want to disprove, essentialphilosophy.com,

00:15:04essentialphilosophy.com. All right. With AI replacing most jobs in the near future,

00:15:09what should we as humans focus on? Assuming most jobs will disappear, and not everyone will have a job.

00:15:14I don't know. I don't know, honestly. I mean, certainly, thinking is the best thing that you could

00:15:22do as a human, because AI can't think. So, thinking is a very good thing to do. Thinking is a great

00:15:27thing to do. And so, I would certainly train yourself on how to think as a whole, how to be

00:15:33original, how to be creative. And you don't need a huge degree of intelligence to think clearly. In

00:15:38fact, there are very smart people who can twist themselves into all kinds of Gordian knots of

00:15:42convoluted lower intestine bullshit, whereas people who work with their hands, people who work with

00:15:48actual matter and reality have a great deal of common sense. So, you know, I, and frankly,

00:15:54I don't, I don't particularly care. I don't particularly care. I mean, people will figure

00:15:59it out. I mean, as I've said before, we went from like, in America, there was like 90% of people

00:16:04were involved in farming. Now it's like 2% or 3%. People will figure it out. They will, they will get

00:16:09the right thing done, and they will find some way to sort it out. And, you know, if people don't,

00:16:15I don't really care. I don't, I mean, I'm not going to virtue signal and say I am bound up in

00:16:22the fate of all mankind. You know, I mean, I don't really care because, I mean, people didn't

00:16:28care about my childhood. People as society as a whole didn't care about, you know, when I,

00:16:35I had a job that was this gold panning and prospecting job that I did, and then the tax

00:16:40incentives changed, you know, you don't, no longer got tax credits for this kind of exploration.

00:16:44So that job dried up, and then in the early 90s, I graduated. There was a terrible recession. I

00:16:52couldn't even get a job as a waiter. Like, nobody cared. I just puzzled it and, and, and figured it

00:16:57out. And, you know, of course, as a white male, right, there are lots of legal barriers against

00:17:03hiring white males, and society doesn't particularly care about that as a whole. In fact, it seems to

00:17:08kind of celebrate it. So I just don't care. I'm not going to care about people more than they care

00:17:13about me. And I'm not going to preen my imaginary moral feathers and say that I care about everyone

00:17:20and everyone's equal. It's like, no, no, my caring is reciprocal, right? If you, if you care about me,

00:17:25then I will care about you. If you don't care about me, I don't care about you. And so people will just

00:17:30have to figure this shit out in the same way that I grew up without any particular moral instruction,

00:17:36you know, with, with terrible schools. And, you know, I just had to kind of figure it out.

00:17:43I did. I pushed my way forward. I figured it out. And nobody, nobody cared about how I made my way

00:17:49forward. And nobody cared that it became very hard to hire people like me. And I just, I don't care.

00:17:59You know, society will progress. I'm certainly doing my best to help people learn how to think and

00:18:04train people how to think all the stuff that was denied me. As a kid, I am, you know, working hard

00:18:10to, to do good things in the world, but I'm certainly not going to twist myself into Gordian

00:18:15knots because some people might lose their jobs. I mean, seriously, you'd have to be kidding me

00:18:21about that kind of stuff. I mean, society didn't care when I lost jobs or careers or opportunities

00:18:27and so on. Society didn't care that I was badly educated. Society didn't care that I was abused

00:18:33as a child. Society didn't care as a whole that I was deformed. In fact, a lot of society

00:18:37kind of cheered that on. And I just found a way to adapt and I found a way to move forward

00:18:41and I found a way to figure it out. And people do what they don't. But I don't, I don't care.

00:18:46I mean, honestly, I'm just being honest with you. Maybe this is shocking. I don't, I don't

00:18:49care that it's shocking. I just, I don't care. Society is pretty selfish. Society doesn't

00:18:56care about me. Society doesn't care about you and so on. And so if people are having a tough

00:19:02time because of AI and jobs are uncertain and jobs are changing and so on, it's like,

00:19:09you know, when I was a student or when I was younger, I spent some time working in offices

00:19:15as a temp. And then, of course, a lot of those jobs got replaced by, you know, like I would

00:19:23be maybe, I wouldn't say exactly a secretary, but I would be like somebody who'd organize

00:19:26trips and do meetings and set them all up and so on. And then that stuff all got replaced.

00:19:32By software tools, software tools for booking trips, booking meetings, making sure everyone

00:19:36was there and sorted and getting it right. And so nobody cared. Nobody was like, oh my gosh,

00:19:41but the poor people who were doing all of these trips and organizing all these meetings and

00:19:44running all of this stuff and so on, like what's going to happen? Nobody cared. It's like, oh,

00:19:48sorry, your job's kind of not necessary now. We've got computers to do it. So you have to figure

00:19:53something out. Oh, nobody cared. And I'm not even complaining that nobody cared. I'm just saying

00:19:59it's a basic fact that nobody cared. You know, I'm a pretty good thinker and communicator

00:20:04and nobody took my course up in university and said, boy, you know, we got to make this

00:20:09kid a professor. He's really talented. I mean, my talent was recognized. I was considered to

00:20:13be one of the two brightest students in all of the universities that I went to. And I had

00:20:22essays read out to the class. They were considered, I mean, professor said, this is the most perfect

00:20:26essay I've ever received. And he read it out to the entire class as an example of a perfect essay.

00:20:32And yeah, nobody, no, nobody's like, oh, well, you gotta, we gotta make sure to get this kid's

00:20:36talent to harnessed in a professorial something, something like nobody cared. Nobody, you have to

00:20:43find your own way to find your own way. And nobody cares. Now I would like it if society did care

00:20:47more as a whole, and hopefully we could build a kind of society like that going forward.

00:20:51But yeah, people, people don't care. You know, like if, if the old age pensions run out, I don't

00:20:57care. Any more than the boomers care that I and the generations that came after me are born into

00:21:04massive debts that they voted for. Like if, if they, if the money's out, then they're going to

00:21:09have to figure it out. I don't care. Because the boomers aren't sitting there saying, oh my gosh,

00:21:16we've got all these deficits and these debts. We, we can't, we can't, we can't possibly

00:21:21hand those debts and unfunded liabilities, millions of dollars to the, to the newly born.

00:21:28I mean, they're certainly not responsible for it. They didn't vote for it. They didn't even have a

00:21:31vote. They weren't even alive, right? So they didn't care about me being born into millions of

00:21:35dollars of debt and unfunded liabilities. They're fine with it. They had their entire lives to save.

00:21:41They had their entire lives to vote better. And they didn't. And, and they preen and, and crow and,

00:21:49and are overjoyed and all of this kind of stuff and, and rail and, and attack and, you know,

00:21:56get, get mad and, and lie about people who try to fix this moral situation. So if, you know, if,

00:22:03and the money will run out, right, the money will run out. I don't care. So, but we're, it's so bad.

00:22:08It's so hard. It's like, yeah, well, you know, you reap, you sow like I'm, I'm no longer interested

00:22:12and I haven't been for quite some time, by the by, I'm no longer interested in protecting people

00:22:17from their own corruption and immorality. And it is wrong to vote for a bunch of free stuff and

00:22:24then pass the bill on to the next generation. It's absolutely fundamentally wrong. It's evil,

00:22:29evil. And I don't know if, if evil do us run out of money, are we going to mourn? Oh no, it's so sad.

00:22:38So yeah, I don't care. And I would, I would suggest and invite you to not care as much either.

00:22:43All right. Is polygamy immoral, especially in an age of single moms who deadbeat baby daddies?

00:22:48Voluntary, voluntary, of course. The arguments are always against forced polygamy.

00:22:52So I would say that polygamy is not a violation of UPB because it is voluntary.

00:22:57There's a gray area. And the gray area is, let's say that you smoke.

00:23:02Is smoking immoral? No, because it's a harmful habit, but it harms yourself primarily.

00:23:09However, if you are a chain smoker who's decided to have five children, and you have no life

00:23:15insurance, then first of all, your smoke could harm your children. And secondly, you can't be as good

00:23:22a parent if you're smoking because you have to keep having smoke breaks and you can't parent your

00:23:26children. And you drop your ashes into the baby as you change in the diaper or something like that.

00:23:30And of course, you're risking your health. And you are inflicting ill health upon your children

00:23:35at a much earlier age than they should have to deal with it because maybe you get sick in your

00:23:3950s rather than your 80s. And so it's a real gray area where you are doing things that are not

00:23:46technically a violation of UPB directly, but you are causing a great deal of suffering among the

00:23:52innocent. Now, it's not the case. Your wife chooses to marry you. You're a smoker. And then she's

00:23:57obviously taking the choice. But your kids don't choose. So if you're doing things that are

00:24:03extremely likely to harm your children, that's not a direct violation of the UPB. I would put it in

00:24:07aesthetically negative actions, that it should be discouraged, but you can't use force against

00:24:13someone. Like you can't shoot a smoker for smoking around his kids, right? So I would put it strongly

00:24:18in aesthetically negative. So polygamy, if you don't have any kids, I think it's gross. I think you

00:24:25should be responsible for your own health care costs, right? Because polygamy is very likely to

00:24:30lead to STDs and maybe unwanted pregnancies and all other kinds of stuff. So if you want to do

00:24:39polygamy, you can do polygamy. If you involve kids, though, I would consider that I would not

00:24:44spend any time socially with a polygamist. I would not hire a polygamist if I had sort of

00:24:52true freedom of association, because I would just view that as pretty gross and bad. So I would say

00:24:59that it's aesthetically negative, but not an evil violation of UPB. And also, when children are

00:25:09involved, it's very bad. The children are designed, of course, to pair bond with two parents. And of

00:25:16course, the more polygamy you engage in, the more likely you are to end up in a situation where you

00:25:20fall in love with someone else or fall in lust to someone else and so on, right? Or maybe, you know,

00:25:25if you're a polygamist, then you go have sex with people, you bring home herpes, and then herpes is

00:25:32transferred to your children. Well, that's pretty bad, right? So yeah, it's pretty bad. All right.

00:25:38Can there be a consciousness aware only of itself? No, because consciousness develops through

00:25:43interaction with the outside world. So no. What if the true nature of reason itself happens to be

00:25:50conscious? Don't know what that means. At what point is a person obligated to intervene for the

00:25:55greater good? And at what point does that transition to self-defense? I don't know what that means. I

00:26:00don't know what you mean by obligation. I don't know what you mean by intervention. I have a vague

00:26:04sense of what you mean by the greater good, but I'm not sure indirectly, so if you want to rephrase

00:26:08that. And generally, if you're going to ask me an abstract question, give me an example or two.

00:26:12All right. I answered the homeschooling question today on the live stream. Not a philosophical

00:26:18question necessarily, but of your literary work. Your novel, called The Present, was truly incredible,

00:26:25and I would recommend everyone to read it, especially young women. Do you believe the

00:26:28dire and chaotic events towards the ending depict an accurate future scenario? Yes, I do. I do. I

00:26:34definitely do. Is coffee a drug? Why or why not? No, coffee's a stimulant. A drug is generally that

00:26:40which alters your perceptions in some fundamental way, right? So LSD is a drug because it gives you

00:26:45visions, and LSD is a drug because it alters your perceptions in fundamental ways, and so on,

00:26:51right? So mind-altering drugs. Coffee is not, doesn't mess with your perceptions. It doesn't

00:26:57mess with your, doesn't give you hallucinations. It doesn't, you know, zonk you out or anything like

00:27:03that. So, I mean, it's a stimulant, and it certainly alters your body and brain chemistry to a small

00:27:08degree, but no, it's not a drug. Otherwise, vitamin C is a drug, right? All right. Where do the rights of

00:27:13ownership come from, and is there limitations to ownership, especially with land and natural

00:27:16resources? So we own ourselves, and we own the effects of our actions, right? If Bob strangles

00:27:22a hobo, Bob owns his own body, therefore Bob, quote, owns the strangulation, which is why we put

00:27:27Bob in jail and not his hands or Sally or something like that. So we own ourselves, and we own the effects

00:27:32of our actions. Is there limitations to ownership? I'm not sure what that means, because how would you

00:27:39enforce limitations to ownership? So generally, the way it's worked in common law is, and I know this

00:27:45from doing property work up north, I would stake out claims to land and then go look for gold. And

00:27:51the way you do it is you go in a kilometer, you hike in a kilometer around, and you hammer your

00:27:56little plates into trees, and then you get a certain amount of mineral rights for a certain amount of

00:28:01time. And generally, you have to invest some kind of labor, like you have to fence something in,

00:28:07you have to clear the land, right? You can't just point at the map and say, I own this 10,000 acres,

00:28:11because then everyone can do that, right? And it all cancels each other out. So generally, you have

00:28:16to invest some kind of labor to make unowned property your own. And so if you go and build a

00:28:23cabin in the woods, and the woods is unowned, then the area around your cabin is owned, you own your

00:28:27cabin because cabin only exists because you've made it, and you only make it because you expect to keep

00:28:33it. So property rights is not the protection of property, property rights is the creation of

00:28:38property, right? Nobody writes a beautiful poem on the surface of a lake, right? Because it just

00:28:42it vanishes, right? So property does not define that which is, it is responsible for creating what

00:28:52it is. So for instance, if you're hungry, and you want to go fishing to get some fish for dinner,

00:28:56if you knew ahead of time that your fish was going to be stolen on the way home, would you go

00:29:01and fish? No, there would be no point. You go to some find some other way to deal with your hunger.

00:29:07So you wouldn't fish. So the fish only exists as property, right? The fish in the lake is

00:29:12not property, it can't be used by anyone. So you go catch the fish, you bring it to the surface, you

00:29:19club it on the gunwool and whatever, right? You fry it up. So the fish has been transferred from

00:29:24unowned to property to utility because of property rights. So you don't have the fish as property.

00:29:31You have the fish because there is property, because there are property rights. No one would

00:29:38bother planting crops if they knew for sure that someone was going to burn them down or steal them

00:29:43all or poison them or like they wouldn't bother, right? So property is created because of the

00:29:48expectation of property rights. So yeah, we own the effect. I mean, if you would never bother building

00:29:53a log cabin in the woods, if you knew that you were just going to get kicked off it, it's going to

00:29:57get disassembled, right? Five minutes after building it, right? So property rights creates

00:30:01property because you own the effects, you own your body, you own the effects of your body.

00:30:07And so a property is not for that which exists. Property creates something that exists. So if you,

00:30:13you know, you square off an acre of land, like you go and hammer it in, you start clearing it all out,

00:30:19you're doing all of that because you expect to keep the property, right? So you clear the land,

00:30:22you build your log cabin, and you plant your vegetable patch, you do all of that because

00:30:26you expect to be able to keep your property. You wouldn't do any of that if you did not,

00:30:31if you knew ahead of time that you weren't going to be able to keep your property, you wouldn't,

00:30:34you wouldn't bother doing any of that, which is why people don't generally build log cabins in

00:30:37public parks, because they're just going to get kicked off, right? So a property is not for that

00:30:42which is. A property is for that which only is because of property rights, only comes into existence

00:30:47because of property rights. And as far as limitations to ownership, what does that mean?

00:30:51Does that mean somebody, I mean, property is what can be enforced. I mean, there's a moral

00:30:57right to it as well. But you know, the old possession is nine tenths of the law. So property

00:31:02is that which can be enforced. And so when it came to unowned land, you would need some investment of

00:31:08labor to, you would need some investment of labor in order to mark the property as yours. You can't just

00:31:15wish it. Otherwise, everyone can wish it, there'd be no such thing as property. So you'd need some

00:31:18investment of labor. And then you would also need some timeframe in which to develop the property.

00:31:24So the way that it worked when I was gold padding and prospecting is you hammer your plates or your

00:31:31plaques into trees in a kilometer square. And then for five years, or whatever time period it was,

00:31:37for a certain number of years, you get the right to develop a mine if you find something

00:31:41really good there in terms of gold. If you don't do anything with the property within five years,

00:31:47it reverts to unowned. And of course, when we were out there, occasionally we would come across

00:31:51like really rusty old plates from like 40 years ago, whatever people did something and didn't

00:31:56find anything. And so it reverts to unowned. Limitations on ownership, it's what you can

00:32:01enforce. If you're going to say, well, we want to make sure that a, let's say a company that makes

00:32:07tents doesn't corner the whole market and control the whole market. Well, the only way you can do that

00:32:11is to have some Uber government, which is based upon the violation of property rights. So that doesn't work

00:32:16either. So, all right, under the empirical epistemology, the origin of supernatural ideas

00:32:22like perfection and infinity is impossible unless they would be experienced at some point,

00:32:26all the arguments contrary, redefine the concepts, or make a leap of reason that would require direct

00:32:31experience. I would say that I answered that in Friday's show, and that is 31st or 29th, 29th of

00:32:39August, 2025. You can look at that for the answer to that, as is why is homeschooling looked so down

00:32:44upon in Europe? I did that. All right, I will stop here. I already did a show today, and I've got a

00:32:52big social calendar of fullness this afternoon. And I actually had a dream about doing a speech.

00:33:00I had a dream about doing a speech. Again, I really miss that sort of public stuff. But maybe we'll sort

00:33:04that out at some point. All right, that's a really foundational question. Somebody says,

00:33:09I have been able to square not wanting to be forced to contribute to social security while

00:33:13knowing some others were definitely not saved by themselves. I don't want to live in a world where

00:33:17people are eventually out on the streets when they are at their most vulnerable. A fine, fine

00:33:25question. And I, of course, I appreciate the sensitivity of this. And I mean, I share it to a

00:33:32fairly significant degree. But this is one of the grave real challenges of compassion is compassion

00:33:43in the now versus compassion in the future or overall. So I'll tell you, it's like a funny little

00:33:50thing that happened. When I was a kid, I used to take the radio and put it in my room. Now, I wasn't

00:33:59really allowed to listen to the radio. But it was a little portable radio, had some batteries.

00:34:04And I would take it. And I didn't, you know, sleep a huge amount as a kid. And what I would do is I

00:34:11would listen to radio shows, radio plays, whatever, just sort of help me fall asleep and so on. And I

00:34:17still listen to audiobooks often when I'm falling asleep. Thank you, audible timer. But in the one of

00:34:27the shows, I don't remember much of the shows, but one of them, someone's house burnt down. And

00:34:34they were like, Oh, but at least we have insurance. And I think I understand I did. I did understand the

00:34:41concept of insurance back then. I was maybe nine or 10. And I've always loved reading economics. So I

00:34:48hate to sound horribly precocious. But that's that it is what it was. It was what it is. And so so at

00:34:54least we have insurance. And then it turns out that the insurance company said that they didn't

00:35:00have insurance. And then one of the characters found in his coat, the letter saying, I want

00:35:07insurance, which also had the check to pay for the insurance, because this, of course, was back in

00:35:14the day along before the internet. And he's like, Oh, I was on my way to mail it when the check went when

00:35:22the house burned down, or I was on my way to mail it, I got distracted. So basically, the house burned

00:35:26down, and the couple in the radio play got nothing because they hadn't mailed the check to get

00:35:34insurance. And, you know, that is a very, very tough situation. So everyone who pays insurance,

00:35:45whose house doesn't burn down, you know, let's say you pay $1,000 a year for your insurance. So,

00:35:51you know, 50 years, $50,000, you know, plus, plus, plus, right, all the money you could have got if

00:35:57you'd invested that money instead, right? So you invest that, you probably have hundreds of thousands,

00:36:01you'd have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars instead, right? So everyone who has

00:36:06the home insurance, who doesn't need it, and very few people do very few people houses actually burn

00:36:14down. Well, they kind of feel ripped off, right? They kind of feel gypped, right? Because they paid

00:36:21all this money, and they didn't, they didn't use it, right? And so they feel ripped off, they feel

00:36:28upset, they feel, you know, and you don't really think about it, because you kind of know, right?

00:36:32You kind of know. And, you know, like, whenever you mail a package, oh, do you want insurance on

00:36:36this? Or do you want insurance on your luggage? Or whatever, right? There's lots of different things

00:36:40that you can do, right? Do you want to, like, when you book a flight, do you want to pay extra so that

00:36:47you can cancel, right? Cancellation insurance, right? And of course, everyone who pays extra who doesn't

00:36:52need to cancel is annoyed, right? Clearly, because they paid the extra 25 or 50 or whatever it is,

00:37:00bucks, and they didn't need to cancel, right? So these, this weighing, this balancing act is always

00:37:08the case, right? Every time you buy something, you know, online, especially electronics, right? There's

00:37:12always a, do you want an extended warranty? Do you want an extended warranty? With that, you know,

00:37:17it's four years for only 150 bucks or whatever it is, right? Now, people who, people who take that

00:37:26warranty and don't have any problem with their electronics are out 150 bucks, right? I remember

00:37:33once a cell phone company, I paid 10 bucks a month in case my cell phone broke or got damaged or

00:37:40whatever it is. And then my cell phone did break and get damaged. I didn't drop it. It just stopped

00:37:44booting up. And I tried to invoke the warranty. And it was like, well, it's 125 bucks for processing.

00:37:50And it's just like, okay, so this is, you know, a little bit of a rip off, or it kind of feels that

00:37:55way. So people who have all kinds of insurance are spending money and, you know, what are you buying?

00:38:04Peace of mind or whatever it is, right? So the people who spend money on insurance who don't need it

00:38:10or don't use it, they're kind of ripped off, right? I mean, I wouldn't say they're ripped off.

00:38:15They feel like, well, of course, if you knew ahead of time that, oh my God, someone driving like no

00:38:20high beams, it's like being interrogated by a Volvo Gestapo. But you, you, you feel like, well,

00:38:27what was the point of that? And yeah, I can't, we all know it. But nonetheless, I still kind of feel

00:38:32like, right, you know, you pay all this insurance on your car for accidents. And, you know, you don't

00:38:39get into accidents. And then you're like, well, geez, I just paid thousands of dollars a year for 40

00:38:44years, and I didn't even use it, right? So, you know, that's all mandated and so on, right? But people

00:38:50don't generally rail and rage against that, right? But if you don't have house insurance and your house

00:38:58burns down, that's a really sad and tragic thing, right? I mean, your house is smoking ashes and I go,

00:39:05where are we going to live? You know, got no money in, right? Especially if your house wasn't even paid

00:39:09off, right? And, and it's tough. It's tough. For me, it's like, well, I, you know, I hope you invested

00:39:18the money you saved by not paying for house insurance. I hope you invested that money or at least saved it

00:39:25so you've got a place to live until you can figure things out, right? That's, that's the big challenge,

00:39:30right? I mean, if you didn't pay your thousand dollars a month, sorry, your thousand dollars a

00:39:35year, let's say on, on fire insurance for your house, if you didn't pay that and your house burns

00:39:40down and you didn't save that money, right? You just blew it or whatever it is, right? Spent it on

00:39:46wine, women and song. Well, then you're out of a house. And what do you do? Well, you're out of a house.

00:39:53And, you know, society is kind of brutal this way on kids. And that's where I get a lot of my

00:40:00reference from, which is if you're going to inflict it on kids, I expect you to inflict it on adults.

00:40:07So there were times, I don't know if this ever happened to you, probably did, maybe it did,

00:40:11but there were times in my childhood when I legitimately forgot there was going to be a test.

00:40:20I just, I forgot. I didn't consciously decide not to study for it, right? I forgot, literally forgot

00:40:29there was, and I, I had to take the test. And if I did badly, I did badly. And if I did enough of

00:40:35those badly, I lost a year of my life because they'd hold me back a year, right? So that's what

00:40:42they inflict on kids. Legitimate. And of course, I understand that every kid could say, oh, I forgot to,

00:40:49I forgot there was going to be a test and, you know, there's no way to tell. So I understand why

00:40:53they, I understand why they couldn't accept that as an excuse because every kid would say that,

00:40:59right? I forgot robbery was illegal, right? So I get that. But to me, it's a gamble. So if someone

00:41:08takes their life savings and puts it on red 22 and they lose their money, do I owe them money,

00:41:16right? There was a guy I interviewed many years ago, wrote this fantastic book

00:41:22on the 0708 financial crash. And one of the things he said was, he was, he ran a bank and ran a bunch of

00:41:31banks, I think. So there was someone, a customer on the phone who was demanding that his mortgage be

00:41:38reduced because the value of his house had gone down. And this guy picked up the phone and said,

00:41:44so you want us to charge you less because the value of your house has gone down, right? And he said,

00:41:51well, yes, it's only fair. And he said, well, let's say the value of your house had gone up

00:41:56and you sold it for a big profit. Would you give us any of that money? Long pause, long pause.

00:42:01Because of course, you know, anybody who's honest knows that if you double your money,

00:42:06whatever, you've sold your house for twice what you paid for it, you're not going to sit there and

00:42:10say, oh, Mr. Bank, you were the one who financed this house. I'm going to give you a portion of the

00:42:15process. You just keep that money for yourself. So he said, so if there's a downside, you want us to

00:42:21pay, but if there's an upside, you want to keep all the money. Well, if you're going to keep all the

00:42:24money, when there's an upside, you got to take all the loss when there's a downside. That's the way

00:42:28it works. And it's kind of unassailable, right? I mean, you can't really, really argue with that.

00:42:35Now, it could be the case, of course, if someone saves $1,000 a year by not having fire insurance,

00:42:45it could be the case that they throw this amazing block party with all that money, right? They invest

00:42:49the money, they, let's say they double the money somehow, they spend $2,000 on this amazing block

00:42:53party, which you go to, and maybe that's where you met your wife or, you know, where you just had

00:42:57such a great time that you remembered it for four generations or something. Okay, well, at least

00:43:02they've done something for the community. And then maybe the community might be interested in helping

00:43:07them out with their loss if their house burns down, right? But let's say that somebody is a drinker

00:43:15and a gambler, and he takes $1,000 a year that he would have spent on house insurance, and he spends it

00:43:21on drinking and gambling, or clothing, or, you know, excessive clothing, or gym membership,

00:43:26or whatever. But it's for him, it's not for anyone else in the community. So, if you don't invest into

00:43:33the community, then how can you expect the community to invest in you? If you're some Boo Radley shut-in,

00:43:40right? I talked about this in my book, Out of the Argument, outoftheargument.com, right?

00:43:44So, the woman who does all kinds of wonderful things for the community, she brings lasagnas

00:43:51to the sick and takes care of people's kids and, you know, helps out with everything that she can

00:43:56think of, but doesn't actually have much saved up for if she gets sick or whatever, doesn't have

00:44:01insurance. Then if she gets sick, people will probably chip in because she's invested time

00:44:05in the community, not money in her savings. In the same way that if you are a stay-at-home mom,

00:44:11you raise your kids, they love you to death, you homeschooled them, you did all the right stuff,

00:44:15you were kind, gentle, wonderful, nice, and loving, and let's say your husband dies,

00:44:19there's no life insurance for whatever reason, right? Well, you have invested in your kids rather

00:44:24than in a job, and so your kids will take care of you when you get old, right? That's the general way

00:44:31that this stuff works, right? You invest and people invest back. So, when people lose their house,

00:44:41and they don't have insurance, right? Their house burns down, they don't have insurance.

00:44:46Almost always, they lie. I didn't know. I didn't understand. I thought I was covered. My husband

00:44:54was supposed to take care. Like, they just lie. And how do we know? In the same way, if I say,

00:44:59look, I totally forgot about this test, man. I'm a teacher. I'm really sorry. They don't know,

00:45:03so they just have to treat me like I did know, right? So, people will lie. Because if people say,

00:45:09look, I really didn't think my house was going to burn down, I really appreciated, you know,

00:45:16the extra $2.50 a day. So, whoops, you know, I kept $1,000 a year, and I didn't use it to pay for

00:45:26insurance, and unfortunately, my house burned down. That sucks, right? But no, they have to play the

00:45:31victim. But insurance is gambling. Nothing more, nothing less. You are gambling. If you don't pay

00:45:41insurance, you're gambling that nothing goes wrong. That's it. You're just gambling. If you don't have

00:45:47insurance that covers a slip and fall on your front porch, and somebody's delivering a package,

00:45:52and they slip and fall, then you saved X amount of dollars per year without slip and fall legal

00:45:57insurance, somebody slips and falls, and now you got to pay. And do they say, well, I guess I gambled

00:46:05and I lost? Because that's what it is. It's just gambling. If somebody takes their life savings and

00:46:13their retirement savings and puts it on Red 22 and loses it all, do they really get to go to the

00:46:19community and cry that they are victims? Well, no. Now, if someone doesn't save for their retirement,

00:46:29I have no problem with that. Because if, let's say, two parents pour everything they have into their

00:46:39kids, right? Making their kids happy, paying for sports, education, hobbies, whatever it is, right?

00:46:45And they don't have any money saved. But the kids are incredibly grateful for the wonderful and easy

00:46:49start that the parents have given them. Then the kids will help out because the parents invested

00:46:55in their children, not in their savings. And the kids will doubtless happily take care of their

00:47:01parents when their parents get old, right? Because that's where they invested. And that's fine. I'm not

00:47:09going to tell people, of course, what they should or should not invest in. If you want to invest in

00:47:14your relationships rather than having insurance, that's fine. If you take the money, let's say,

00:47:20there's a woman, she takes the money from the household that would have been spent on life

00:47:24insurance for her husband and instead invests in her kids or invests in Bitcoin or something like

00:47:29that. And then her husband dies and she doesn't get any life insurance. Well, she invested in her

00:47:36kids. She invested in Bitcoin or whatever it was, right? It's like renting versus buying. I don't know.

00:47:41Do what you want, right? So, if people don't say for their retirement, the question is, for me,

00:47:51are they honest? The issue for me with, say, single moms is not fundamentally that they're single moms.

00:47:59It's that they lie about it. My issue with marijuana users is not foundationally that they're marijuana

00:48:09users. It's that they lie about it. It's the lying about it that I can't stand. Not the fact that you

00:48:15are a weed addict or not the fact that you're a single mom. It's the lying about it because the

00:48:20lying about it recreates the problem. Let me sort of tell you what I mean. And then I'll tell you how

00:48:26it applies to insurance. So, lying about it with regards to being a single mom is, have you ever

00:48:33met a single mom who said, I did not examine my childhood. I did not read any books. I did not

00:48:38go to therapy, even though it was free in high school and free in college. I did not do the work

00:48:43that was necessary. I found a guy sexy who had clear red flags. I fell prey to lust. I was a complete

00:48:49corrupt idiot, and now I'm really behind the eight ball, right? I've never in my life, in my wildest

00:48:59dreams, anywhere online, anywhere in my call-in shows, anywhere in my life, I have never met

00:49:05a single mom or a weed addict. And, you know, the weed addicts tend to be more male than female,

00:49:11so I'm spreading the love equally here, right? It's the lying about it. It's the lying about it.

00:49:19The weed addict doesn't say, you know, I'm managing my anxiety. Like, if I stop doing weed,

00:49:25I get crippling anxiety, like panic attacks. So, I'm just managing my anxiety, and I chose to do

00:49:30weed rather than deal with my bad childhood because weed was easier, or something like that. Like,

00:49:36whatever would be the most honest, what's the most honest thing you can say? Now, if you're honest

00:49:41about things, you prevent recurrence. So, let's take single moms, right? So, a single mom who says,

00:49:47he was the perfect guy, he said everything right, he did everything right, there was no red flags,

00:49:52there was nothing I could do to possibly tell anything that went wrong, and now look what

00:49:57happened, right? Well, by lying, they're making other women paranoid. And, you know, don't underestimate

00:50:04the degree to which the rise of single motherhood and lying about men is lowering the birth rate,

00:50:09saying that a man can be perfect, have no red flags whatsoever, and then a year or two in,

00:50:15if you have a baby, he just turns into a complete raging a-hole who's a sociopath, right?

00:50:22That has a huge impact on the birth rate because it makes women paranoid about men. Whereas if,

00:50:29and you've heard me, of course, ask this question a million times on my show, what were the red flags,

00:50:33what were the red flags, what were the red flags, and there are always red flags, always, always,

00:50:36always, always. And, like I just did a call today with a guy who ended up in a horrible battle over

00:50:42his kids' custody, blah, blah, blah, and he got, he had a, he had a child with a woman who was an

00:50:48untreated victim of absolutely terrible and appalling sexual abuse. All sexual abuse is

00:50:54terrible, but there are different, still different degrees of hell, and she was at pretty much the

00:50:58lowest level of hell, and she was untreated. And there were red flags. So, the weed guy who doesn't

00:51:05say, I'm managing childhood trauma, I'm taking the easy route, and I'm an addict, and I'm helpless,

00:51:10is basically saying, don't do this, kids, right? Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do what I do.

00:51:15Do the opposite. Don't get trapped like I did, right? But if they say, well, it's all natural,

00:51:18it's not addictive, it's great, it opens your mind, it gives you insight, deeper consciousness,

00:51:22nature of the universe, blah, blah, blah, and he's selling the drug. In the same way that the single

00:51:27mom who won't take responsibility for having a kid with a guy who's a terrible father is not taking

00:51:34responsibility. So, rather than take ownership, she makes other women paranoid. Oh, my God, a guy

00:51:40can be totally perfect, and then, oh, you never know, Moscow, there was no way to know. So, by

00:51:45playing the victim, she does not teach others how to make better decisions. She has them instead make

00:51:51worse decisions, which is, oh, my God, I can't be with a guy because I've heard from all these single

00:51:56mothers that guys can just turn on you with no warning. They could be perfect for years and then

00:52:01turn on you the moment, right? It just lies, lies. So, she, the single mom, by lying about why she

00:52:09became a single mom or how she became a single mom, is just making other women paranoid and has

00:52:14to make terrible decisions, which is, do not trust men and blah, blah, blah, right? And then they become

00:52:18hedonists and just go after the pretty boys, and then if they get knocked up, the whole cycle repeats.

00:52:22So, they're just, right? It's the same thing with the weak guy. So, that's my issue. Now, if people

00:52:27getting close to retirement are like, oh, my God, I have made the most terrible set of decisions. I've

00:52:33been thoughtless, inattentive, greedy, lazy. I have not saved enough for my retirement. I didn't even

00:52:38have kids. I got no savings. My parents are gone. I blew through my inheritance. I don't have any life

00:52:43insurance. I don't have any health insurance. I've just made the worst conceivable decisions,

00:52:48and here's how I made them, and here's how to avoid them, kids, and don't do this and don't do that.

00:52:53Okay. So, I would have much more sympathy, and I would actually be very willing to help people who

00:52:58did that, because they're educating based upon their mistakes, and that's a huge mistake,

00:53:03but at least they're honest about it. That, to me, is the price of charity, is stop fucking lying.

00:53:09That's the price of charity. You're a single mom, you want help? Stop lying. Stop insulting all men by

00:53:15saying all men are two-faced, rat-humping bastards who turn on you the moment you get pregnant,

00:53:19and there's no way to know ahead of time. That's just a lie and an insult to men and to women.

00:53:24So, to me, the price of charity is don't lie to me. Don't lie to me, because I'm happy to help out

00:53:33people who've made bad decisions in the past. I'm happy to help out people who've made mistakes,

00:53:38even if they've been continual and conscious. I'm happy to help, but you cannot lie to me.

00:53:43The moment you lie to me, I have no sympathy. Because you're choosing to continue the bad

00:53:51decisions. You've learned nothing. You know, when I talk about my 20s, I don't say, well,

00:53:57I was the victim of all these people who were kind of false and only pretended to blah, blah, blah,

00:54:01blah. It's like, no, I wasn't living my values. I wasn't living my values, and that's why things went

00:54:07to shit, right? I don't blame others. I blame myself. I hold myself accountable. If you ever heard

00:54:13me whine about being deplatformed, no. I mean, it was unjust, for sure. But I did it. I know the

00:54:19lay of the land. I'm not an idiot. Oh, I can't believe that the things I were talking about would

00:54:23be provocative to a leftist set of programmed NPC audio. Right? I know, I know, I know. I know,

00:54:31I know, I know, I know, I know. Well, I'd rather leave IQ behind. So, yeah, not complicated.

00:54:40So, as far as insurance goes, hey, if people blow their money on stupid stuff rather than

00:54:50having insurance, that's fine. Be honest about it. Don't lie. Don't compound irresponsibility

00:54:59with money with falsehood. Because then you're trying to get something for nothing, and you're

00:55:04still just as greedy as when you weren't paying for your insurance. Oh, I didn't know. There's

00:55:10no way I could have predicted. Houses haven't burnt down here in forever. I was confused.

00:55:14My husband was supposed to do it. He never did that. Bastard, Leah. Like, now you're just

00:55:18continuing to try and get something for free, and you've learned nothing. And to me, if somebody

00:55:24wants my help, tell me the truth. Because if you lie to me and I give you money, I'm funding

00:55:31irresponsibility and immorality. I don't want to do that. I will fund honest mistakes,

00:55:39even multi-decade mistakes. I will fund that. I will not fund people who lie and play the victim

00:55:46when they did it to themselves. I will not fund that. Because if you don't care enough

00:55:51to tell the truth, right, if you don't care enough to tell the truth, then you clearly

00:55:57don't care about the money. Right? If you say, well, hey, Steph, I need you, can you send

00:56:01me $1,000 to rebuild my house? I'm like, well, why does your house need to rebuild? Where's

00:56:05your insurance? Oh, I sent it in, but they screwed it up, or I didn't even know, or like,

00:56:10whatever it is, right? Like, if you're just lying, right? Well, if you're lying, then clearly,

00:56:16like, clearly, you don't care about the $1,000 that much, right? You don't. You do not care

00:56:23about the money that much. Because if you cared about the money, you'd be willing to tell the

00:56:29truth to get the money. But if you still continue lying, then you prefer lying to my money, and I'm

00:56:36not going to disagree with you, I'm not going to argue with you, but I'm not going to give you the

00:56:39money. Tell the truth, and my heart is open to you. Lie, and if you choose lies, then

00:56:46clearly, you don't want the money that much, right? Because I'll say, are you telling me the

00:56:50truth? Because if you say that the insurance company that you sent the paperwork in, if you

00:56:58say that, you sent the paperwork in, but they're just not paying, if you say that, and I found out

00:57:03that's not true, that's really bad, right? Because now you're compounding irresponsibility with fraud,

00:57:10because it's fraud to say something isn't your fault when it damn well is your fault. You chose not

00:57:16to get life insurance. You chose not to get health insurance. You chose to drive without

00:57:19being insured in your car. You chose to not get fire insurance or homeowner's insurance. You chose

00:57:26all of that. Now, if you're going to lie and say that you're a victim, and then try to compound

00:57:31lying with fraud, then I don't care about helping you. I will not help you. I will not help you.

00:57:41I had someone many years ago, actually not that long ago, he asked me for help. And look, I'm not

00:57:50going to go into the details, but yeah, I've helped people, right? And he asked me for help. And he said,

00:57:56you know, we, he was intellectual, like we have to stick together, right? And we got to support each

00:58:01other. And I'm like, oh, okay. So if that's your philosophy, hey, man, I'm happy to help. But you know,

00:58:06please show me how you supported me when I was de-platformed. Because you believe that we need

00:58:12to support each other, right? So show me, because if this, this is your belief, this is your belief,

00:58:18then you got to show me. Because I don't play me, right? Don't, don't lie. Oh, we got to support

00:58:23each other. If that's your belief, then you would certainly have supported me when I was de-platformed,

00:58:26which was a pretty big event in the intellectual world, right? So, and of course, he couldn't show me

00:58:34anything, right? So that's that, so if you want my help, ask me for my help. And listen, if you say

00:58:39to me, listen, I need your help. And I feel really bad because, and this is a terrible time to say it,

00:58:44I need your help. And not only do I need your help, but I didn't even help support you. I don't mean

00:58:49financially, but even just a blog post or a tweet about how terrible it was or whatever it is, right?

00:58:54You know, I need your help. And I didn't even help you when you were de-platformed. I'm really sorry

00:58:59about that. And it's a terrible time to ask you help. I didn't, I'm really ashamed about that.

00:59:03I'll work to make it up to you. I did the wrong thing because I did not support you, but now I'm

00:59:09asking you to support me. Okay, fine. I'm sold. You know, I'll help. But don't lie. Don't lie.

00:59:16Don't lie. Don't lie to me when you're asking for my help. If people fess up to their mistakes,

00:59:21they're doing a good social service, right? So a woman who became a single mom because she had the

00:59:27hearts for an obviously dysfunctional guy. And she then talks to young women about the dangers of lust.

00:59:33she's doing a good social service. And in my view, I'm not saying she deserves,

00:59:37you know, like coerced help, but I would help someone like that because they're providing a

00:59:42good social service by telling the truth. Maybe they make some videos talking about

00:59:45the mistakes they made and how to avoid them. Fantastic. I will help. I will help.

00:59:51Because you're actually helping others. But if you lie, then you're deceiving others. I will not help

00:59:57because you don't even care enough about my money to tell me the truth. And therefore,

01:00:00it's just a kind of fraud. So if somebody is a gambling addict, and they lose their money,

01:00:07and then they say, Oh, no, I was drugged, man. And I didn't know what I was doing, right? And let's

01:00:13say I found out that they weren't drugged, right? I'm not helping them. In fact, I will avoid them.

01:00:19Because they're now compounding crushing levels of irresponsibility with outright fraud and

01:00:25deception. And I will not participate in that kind of crime. It is to me, it's a moral crime to

01:00:30pretend to be the victim when it's your fault. To pretend that you are being victimized when you

01:00:36made the bad choices is a form of spiritual fraud. I will not give one thin satoshi for. But mistakes,

01:00:43fine. Hey, man, we all do it. We all make mistakes. And if you've made a mistake, and you're honest about

01:00:48it, and you work to help instruct the world on how to avoid your mistake, that's as noble a thing as

01:00:55you can do with bad decisions. You know, I have ignored red flags in dating, and I've talked about

01:01:02those. I have not lift my values. And I've talked about that. And I have talked about my mistakes and

01:01:08my errors. I have a whole series of shows on I was wrong about called I was wrong about.

01:01:13When I'm in the wrong, I apologize, I take responsibility, I make restitution, and so on,

01:01:18right? So, and even then, I'm not perfect, right? I could be a bit too snappy and impatient from time

01:01:25to time, for sure. For sure. But it's other people's fault. Haha, just kidding. So, when people make

01:01:33mistakes, they don't buy life insurance, that's fine. And if they say, look, I really gambled wrong.

01:01:39Please, kids, don't do it. Don't not buy life insurance. Don't not buy home insurance. Like,

01:01:45don't just get your insurance. I really, really made the wrong decision. Now I have to throw myself

01:01:50on the mercy of the community, and I have no excuse. And, right, that to me is noble. That is noble.

01:01:57Or that's as noble a thing as you can do with bad decisions. No problem with that. But, I know,

01:02:04if you lie to me while asking for my help, that is, that turns my, I'm telling you, man,

01:02:12that turns my heart to an absolute block of impossible ice. Now, I can tell you that,

01:02:22and then if you're like, you know what, you caught me, and that's even worse, because now I was asking

01:02:26for your help, and I was lying to you, and let me sort of figure out why that was. Okay,

01:02:29but if you just keep lying, nope, I will not fund it. I will not, I will not fund it. I will not.

01:02:36I won't do it. I won't do it. Because if you prefer your lies to my money, then I will let you

01:02:44have your lies, and not my support, and not my money, right? Because if you, if your solution to

01:02:52irresponsibility is to lie and play the victim, then there's no point giving you money, because you're

01:02:57just going to blow it again. Like, you're not, I'm not actually helping you. In fact, I'm harming

01:03:01you, because then I'm rewarding your lying. So, no, I, I will not. So, I, I hope that helps. Now,

01:03:08as far as, you know, people will die in the streets, well, without government insurance,

01:03:11people will save. People will save. And there will be some people, there will be occasional people who

01:03:17don't save, and who lie, and who continue to irritate and annoy the community, and who didn't

01:03:23invest in their kids, and this, that, and the other. There will be those people, for sure.

01:03:27And they will suffer. And I don't know if we should, I don't, I don't want to live in a world

01:03:33where people who are corrupt never have to suffer. People who lie, people who cheat, people who have

01:03:38the sort of spiritual theft of this kind of stuff. I, I do not want to live in that world. I think

01:03:45that's, that's pretty terrible.

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