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Stefan Molyneux digs into questions about what it means to exist, focusing on how to line up daily life with some sense of virtue and direction. He stresses the need for courage when pushing back against what society expects, and points out that being honest with yourself is key to real freedom. Drawing from a story about his own take on Macbeth, he unpacks the mess of moral choices and the inconsistencies in how society operates. Molyneux notes how conformity often gets rewarded, while ignoring your true voice leads to real drawbacks. In the end, he pushes for matching what you want with actions that hold moral weight, which can lead to stronger bonds with others and a deeper sense of satisfaction.
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00:00all right so good morning everybody hope you're doing well so i asked grok what is the number one
00:07most important question i can answer for my listeners and grok answered we'll do this
00:11bit by bit hopefully this will help hopefully i'm sure grok is pretty good at this kind of stuff
00:15but said the number one most important question you can answer for your listeners based on the
00:20core themes that run through your work on free domain your philosophy shows universally preferable
00:26behavior upb peaceful parenting ethics and call-ins is what do i want to achieve with my life or more
00:36precisely what do i truly want followed closely by how do i live in accordance with virtue to achieve
00:42it this stands out repeatedly as the fund as the foundational starting point you emphasize when
00:49people drift into nihilism hedonism or meaninglessness in discussions like hedonism versus nihilism
00:55you frame it as the first and most essential question people ask or should ask upon waking
01:00up each day planning their months years of facing choices what is my aim what goal or value am i
01:08pursuing without a clear virtue-lined answer to this people fall into traps chasing fleeting
01:14pleasures hedonism which fades and slides into despair declaring life worthless nihilism when virtue
01:22is abandoned making poor decisions in relationships parenting economics or society because they lack a
01:29rational moral compass so that's uh that's pretty good i gotta tell you this that's pretty good ai is
01:38i know it's just a very sophisticated word guesser but it is pretty it is pretty cool how it's able to
01:45synthesize things in this kind of way so what do i want to achieve with my life so courage is the
01:53opposite of slavery if you're a slave courage destroys you right so if you stand if you elect some
02:01ancient roman slave or some bantu slave in africa if you stand up against your master you get killed
02:09or ostracized or castrated or like your genetic line ends in one way or another and the purpose of
02:18punishing courage which of course i have experienced very substantially and directly the purpose of
02:25punishing courage is to make other people view courage as suicide and therefore program them to feel
02:33like slaves that is the point of these horrendous censorship laws and so on so that if you
02:42courageously speak the truth that is good and important then you will be wildly punished and
02:51attacked and and so on and what this does is the impact crater on say my life then sort of spreads
02:58to others and they say oh well we are in fact slaves because courage is being punished because if you
03:08look at something like the military in the military courage if it's in alignment with the goals of the
03:15leaders courage is rewarded courage is praised and rewarded and you get a medal a ticker tape parade
03:24and a pension as i've said on more than one occasion so when you are in service of the rulers or the
03:30leaders then courage is praised and rewarded but if what you're saying is against the pleasures and
03:39preferences of your rulers and leaders then courage is punished and and so on right i remember when i was in
03:48my early 20s i played macbeth and i poured a huge amount of thought into the role and some people
03:55loved what i did some people hated what i did lord knows that's not the first time or the last time
04:01that's ever going to happen because what i decided to do was to play uh macbeth as a complete sociopath
04:10as a serial killer because i couldn't help but notice and i remember arguing with the director quite a bit
04:16about this i couldn't help but notice that macbeth is a soldier and a warrior who probably has been
04:24out there killing 20 30 peasants or knights or whatever you want to call them he's just the king
04:32has ordered him to go and kill a whole bunch of other people and he went out with his sword and his
04:38armor and he went out and killed a whole bunch of people in the service of the king and he was praised
04:43for that and that was a good thing and the king was happy with him and yay mass murdering psychopath
04:48good for you and then his wife convinces him to kill the king and he kills the king which is like a mafia
04:57hit man turning on the mafia leader and what i did was i played his subsequent insomnia and descent
05:06into madness and nihilism and suicidality as he cannot resolve this contradiction why is it bad
05:14for him to kill the guy who orders him to kill 50 guys and the world says it's great for you to kill
05:22the 50 guys and you know over the course of his career it was probably thousands of guys that macbeth
05:28murdered as a soldier and a warrior and so on whether directly or you know by running the military or
05:33whatever but why would it be wrong to kill the guy who orders you to kill 5 000 guys i mean
05:42the king got to and i remember saying this to the director the king got to his old age
05:48with all of his pomp and circumstance and power and grace and and so on he got to his old age intact
05:57whereas macbeth was out there uh killing a whole bunch of young men who didn't get into the you
06:05know however old the king is the 70s or 80s so it is it was far less just to kill the young men than
06:13it was to kill the old king but of course you know the natural order rises up against him and and so on
06:21right and he can't sleep and the gods desert him and the witches haunt him and all of that and to
06:26me uh macbeth it's just a mafia movie it's just a mafia story sorry mafia mafia play but of course
06:33because shakespeare was writing in the constraints of the time he had to write that the king ordering
06:43macbeth to kill 5 000 guys was good and right and noble and virtuous and excellent whereas macbeth
06:52killing the old man is horrifying and upsetting the natural order condemned by god and run by the
07:03devil and so on and i mean i sympathize with that i mean shakespeare is the greatest writer in human
07:08history but not a philosopher although he had the most succinct description of socialism that
07:15distribution should do and that distribution should undo excess and each man have enough
07:19so uh he was not a philosopher he was a a writer so and and he couldn't have staged his plays
07:27if he had included any of these sorts of elements so people were very disoriented by by what i did
07:37i think there's a video of it somewhere the director has a video of it somewhere for many
07:41decades ago but the audience was fundamentally discombobulated by i mean i to me morally this is not
07:51an interpretation i played macbeth as a mafioso i even did a nod to don corleone by adopting a
08:00slightly softer voice slightly more sinister softer voice and of course the king became king
08:07by killing other people i mean the aristocracy are murder champions and that's why they got the
08:12land because they were very good at killing people so why should we mourn the death of a mafia chief
08:22of a chief of organized crime who would have thought the old man had so much blood in him
08:28well i mean this is macbeth who just chopped the heads off 50 guys in a day's battle
08:34being surprised that someone has so much blood in him again that's one of these prickly horror
08:40scenarios that is very effectively done in the play macbeth but i remember people said it was
08:50uniquely powerful and they hated it at the same time but i mean that's what philosophy does is it
08:57tells you fundamental truths in ways that go against your programming so your deepest self recognizes
09:03the fundamental truth and your programmed self hates it which is why people have such an
09:08ambivalent relationship with what i do i'll tell the truth you know it's the truth it's proven but you
09:14hate it at the same time because once you're in possession of the truth well you you can't be
09:19satisfied by hanging with liars anymore so the purpose of punishment is to spread the perception
09:28of enslavement so that people don't fight back so what do i want to achieve with my life what do i
09:36truly want how do i live in accordance with virtue to achieve it what we want in life is to be
09:42seriously fucking free maximum freedom maximum freedom maximum freedom maximum freedom has to take
09:50into account dangerous predation if you are training for a swimming race and you go down to the ocean to
09:58train but there's a whole bunch of sharks uh offshore then you don't swim there that day
10:04because otherwise you obviously are likely to be bitten and you're not going to do very well
10:12in the swimming race so we want maximum freedom maximum freedom because we can't have a life unless we
10:19choose a life and we can't choose a life without courage otherwise we just conform us right like salmon in
10:25that swift current you are just going with the flow and then you don't really exist in any
10:32psychologically independent or authentic way we inherit praise and punishment from the slaves who rule us
10:43well it's interesting because people like teachers are both slaves and masters they're slaves to the
10:48curriculum slave to the powers that be but they're also masters because they get their income through
10:53force through property taxes and other forms of coercion now like the court toadies you know the
10:59sycophants at the court they're both slaves and rulers at the same time so we inherit punishment and praise
11:08and doing good means being praised doing bad means being punished but none of these things have any
11:16rational or objective moral standing it's not like doing good is rationally proven and being bad
11:25is rationally disproven or any of this is consistent right the teacher says don't use force to get what
11:32you want don't steal don't hit but if your parents don't pay my salary i'm gonna send them to jail
11:37right so it's all convoluted hypocritical vile predatory exploitive parasitical nonsense but
11:46it's what trains us and we are trained to punishment and reward if we please the teacher if we get
11:56check marks on the curriculum we are praised if we displease the teacher or challenge or question
12:02the foundations of the curriculum we are punished they're punished if we try to take consistency
12:11in things we say oh well there's a black student group why can't there be a white student group well
12:15that's racist it's like well but but that's racist to say that right i mean if racism is bad then
12:20anyway so you're not allowed right you're not allowed you're just punished and and mocked down and
12:27and the parents are alerted and you know you're flagged as dangerous subversive racist whatever right i
12:37mean the usual usual stuff throughout throughout history heretic right unbeliever and and you're punished
12:47so we are punished for consistency and praised for successfully enslaving ourselves asking questions
13:02is punished and repeating answers is praised remember was it barack obama who said you know it's
13:11time for us to have an honest conversation about race okay let's bring some science in no
13:17let's bring some facts in no that's bad so i mean they don't they want an honest conversation like
13:25about these sorts of things in the same way that chairman mao wanted to let a thousand flowers bloom
13:30so he could find out who the subversive were and slaughter them so we want maximum freedom
13:38because it is far more satisfactory to make your own mistakes than to imitate other people's successes
13:46it is better in your soul in the long run to write your own songs than it is to be a reasonably successful
13:56cover band right it is better to write your own books than to be a monk kind of copying out other
14:05people's books in the middle ages so we want maximum freedom which means reasonable courage if you dial up
14:14the courage too far well you don't really get much freedom because you're silenced enslaved shot
14:21imprisoned whatever right so if you don't have enough courage then you have to lie to yourself
14:29see i mean this is this is the problem with not having courage reasonable courage is that you have to
14:36lie to yourself there was a guy on x can't remember his name who was saying well i i just don't find
14:42iq discussions between ethnicities be particularly interesting but blah blah blah blah blah and it's
14:48like no that's not true it is unfortunately it is it has to be interesting because massive amounts of
14:54policy decisions are based upon ethnic disparities and outcome i mean you can't not be interested in it
15:01because it's interested in you so if you say look it's too volatile it's it's it is an important
15:11subject it's just it's too volatile okay i can i can respect that honesty i really can't it's just
15:18this well you know i just i find it's a belief beneath my lofty attention it's not interesting
15:24it's petty it's a small only the midwits would be interested in such a silly topic like it's that
15:31pomposity that drives me in particular into paroxysms of body retching rage but but what are you
15:39going to do right if you are in a situation where there's an essential topic and you find it too
15:46volatile to talk about then don't talk about it or talk about it and say it's too volatile right
15:54like jordan peterson said many years ago yes there are ethnic iq differences they're pretty tough to
16:03resolve nobody can figure out how to solve them nobody can figure out an intelligence test that doesn't
16:07have disparate outcome on averages in iq but people get killed for it so i'm not really going to talk
16:13about it okay i mean he knows about it i mean maybe don't give a whole bunch of speeches on
16:18immigration without mentioning it but hey hey so yeah you can say it's too volatile i don't want to
16:24talk about it or shut up about it entirely but don't say well it's just not an important topic and
16:29i'm too lofty and blah blah so the problem with a lack of courage is you have to lie to yourself
16:33because no man can survive contempt for himself in his own mind no man can say i'm a coward and
16:45survive psychologically no man can say i'm a liar i'm a coward i avoid essential conversations and lie
16:56about why because if you look at yourself with the just contempt you would have as a coward if you
17:05reveal to yourself honestly your own cowardice without and we've all you know we've all done it
17:12uh i i won't speak for you i've certainly done it i've had to recognize where i was being cowardly
17:19and work to close that gap i mean people pointed out years and years ago
17:26that the religion i criticized the most was christianity and it was wasn't it amazing
17:32that the religion i happened to criticize the most happened to be the one that commanded its
17:37followers to love their enemies and was peaceful and and so on and that that was an absolutely right
17:41and fair and true and good point so i had to figure out how to close that gap so no man can look in
17:51the mirror and say i'm a contemptible coward who lies about being brave and psychologically or even
17:58economically continue if you are a teacher or a professor or so whatever then you say to people
18:06you should defer to my wisdom and expertise and if you've looked in the mirror and you've said
18:11i'm a contemptible coward who lies about his courage and you have admitted that to yourself and you
18:17won't close the gap then all credibility and authority is going to drain out of your demeanor
18:22and your and and everyone's going to pick up on it everyone's going to pick up on it and nobody
18:29will have any respect for you your children will look upon you with contempt your wife husband look
18:34upon you with contempt you will have a crisis of conscience you will be unable to sleep because no man
18:42can look in the mirror and say i'm a lying coward and continue on in his life as if that had not
18:51occurred that is not a thing that can happen so people have to lie to themselves if you lack courage
18:59which we all do from time to time so that's fine that's a struggle right but if you lack courage
19:07if you are a lying coward you have to lie about that to yourself you have to now what are the consequences
19:17of having to lie to yourself like no man can look in the mirror and say i'm a contemptible lying coward
19:23and go about his day it doesn't happen people have to lie to themselves so what are the consequences
19:30of having to lie to yourself well touchiness vanity and now you have to consciously or unconsciously
19:39avoid anyone who is consistent moral and perceptive because if you are consistent moral and perceptive
19:48you will call out someone who is lying to themselves about their virtues and you will do it not necessarily
19:55out of hostility you could do it out of a care and concern for their conscience right so if somebody
20:05who's 300 pounds just says well i'm big boned you would say uh no uh dinosaurs i i think they could be
20:13considered big boned uh your skeleton is pretty much the same as everybody else's except maybe softer
20:19because you don't exercise like the exercise is you're hauling around 120 pounds of extra weight
20:24so you would say to that person now you wouldn't necessarily say it out of contempt or hostility
20:29and anger but you would say it because what they're saying is something false and if you value
20:33the truth you should try to correct people when they say things that are false so if you lie to
20:38yourself i'm i'm not talking about you obviously just i just i can't do that third if one lies to
20:44oneself one blah blah blah i'm not uh my blood is not quite that blue close but not quite yeah so if you
20:50lie to yourself then you have to be around other people who lie to themselves so you can all
20:55reinforce your delusions like dawn drunkards propping each other up as they stagger home
21:01to their rolling pin wielding wives and you have to be around other people who lie to themselves who
21:08reinforce your lies you're surrounded by liars and because you're surrounded by liars you can't trust
21:14anyone because you all know that you're shaking hands under the table to reinforce each other's
21:20self-praise so it conditions everyone who is in your life or not in your life everybody who pursues you or
21:31avoids you and when you first meet someone you have these very sensitive and often unconscious but very
21:38sensitive feelers out because you are trying to figure out whether they will tell you the truth
21:45or not and then because you have no leg to stand on philosophically morally or rationally what you have
21:53to do is resort to reward and punishment right a a professor right a professor of say free market
22:03economics who is cross-examined by a skeptical rational student as to why he believes that the
22:09free market is virtuous and valuable yet he works in a government protected cartel often paid for by the
22:15government or why if he says well student loans or government loans are bad and he said well most of
22:21your salary is paid for the fact that your classes give the university access to government subsidized and
22:29backed student loans uh these are uh these are real questions and important questions and everybody
22:36knows that the professor will get very hostile now he doesn't have a leg to stand on so he has to get
22:42hostile and because he's hostile he then punishes people how dare you you know this sort of boring
22:51pompous posturing stuff so if you lie to yourself about your level of courage and you call cowardice
22:58courage then you don't have a leg to stand on because you will warn and threaten people who
23:05are going to expose you and you will praise and reward people who conform with you i remember taking
23:12on a professor in my class in university of the rise of capitalism the socialist response
23:19and you know he didn't fail me but he certainly didn't give me marks that were in accordance with the
23:25skill and knowledge that i had so you're punished and i mean this is all known right so if you lie to
23:35yourself about i mean most things but particularly moral things then you end up inflicting punishment
23:42on people who question you and rewarding people giving praise and marks and jobs and money to people who
23:50reinforce your delusions about yourself right if you are a wise and learned professor emeritus
24:00who has been teaching the wayward youth mr chip style low these many decades and and you know and but
24:08but it's mostly bullshit and conformity and punishment for pricking the balloons of vanity and reward for
24:15inflating the balloons of vanity you're just a carnival barker with giant plush toys or the loss of money
24:23as your rewards and punishment and having contempt and then this one of the things that's coming out
24:28of these epstein files is that all of these people who claim to be sort of moral leaders and i mean
24:33they're all just a bunch of pedo-adjacent vile parasitical scumbags and it's you know good good let's
24:41let's get the truth about these things right so the problem with lying to yourself is you end up having
24:50to punish the truth and reward your co-conspirators and falsehood which means you can't be loved you're
24:56always prickly you're always defensive and you always have to scan people for the vile danger that
25:03faces you called honesty curiosity and integrity and so you have to actively repel honest curious moral
25:10people from your life and you can only have those around you who also lie and manipulate and that's
25:18vile that's vile and what happens of course is that like a a trained seal or dolphin who gets some
25:26herring for doing a nice trick the more you serve the powers that be the more you are rewarded
25:30and therefore what happens is you get addicted to the status that is given to you by the powers that
25:42be for lying to yourself and others you are the best liar like i see someone i mean these days in
25:51particular it might have been a little different when i was younger but not much but these days when
25:55i see someone with a phd i'm like wow so you uh you are you are really good liar you're really good
26:03at serving the powers that be you're really good at not rocking the boat you're really good at navigating
26:08the conformity minefield to get your prize on the other side i view these kinds of things as a whole
26:18not exclusively but as a whole i view these kinds of things as uh boy you moved up really quickly
26:23in the red guard in communist china or wow you became pretty top dog at the kgb or the nkvd and
26:33people saying that what they should be proud of that i think not i think not so what should you do
26:41well you should have reasonable amounts of honesty reasonable amounts of courage now this is public
26:46facing in private you should be able to be completely honest right it's an old statement about in the
26:52Soviet Union the only the only place you could be honest was under the covers of the bed with your
26:56wife so in private you should be able to be honest in public yeah i mean i get you have to have some
27:04caution you have to have some recognition of challenges and and problems and so on i get all of
27:10that but what should you want to achieve with your life i mean a good relationship with your
27:16self is essential for happiness in life a good relationship with your own conscience
27:21now your conscience has standards and values whether you like it or not in the same way that
27:29you can't look at a bird let's say that you're 20 and you've been a bird watcher your whole life
27:35and you're out in the woods and a winged creature flies overhead you can't look at that and not know that
27:45it's a bird right in the same way if somebody speaks to you in english you can't not understand
27:51what they're talking about like the operations of consciousness the universalizations of consciousness
27:56are unconscious processes i can't look at the giant ball of light in the sky and say what the hell is
28:04that i have no idea what that is right yeah you you don't come out of your bedroom every morning and
28:14wonder where you are and not know how to turn on the lights and like you know right and if you go
28:21to a hotel you know how to turn on the lights for them i guess now they have these funny key things
28:26got to be in or whatever right or you know i remember i wrote about this in the god of atheists
28:30but uh in business travel trying to figure out how to get hot water in these various contraption taps
28:36in various hotels uh can be a challenge but you know figure it out but you don't you know you
28:41don't sit there and say gee what's that what's that giant soup bowl in the bathroom for oh look
28:46it's a it's a bathtub and all that right so the operations of consciousness are unconscious particularly
28:55universalization you don't go to a hotel room and have no idea where to sleep right you recognize
29:01what the bed is even though it's slightly different shape and size and whatever right
29:05so it's the same thing with consistency virtue and so on right if you say that honesty is a virtue
29:15and you lie that's recorded it doesn't matter that you lie to yourself as far as your conscience goes
29:22in terms of it your conscience being able to record it oh okay so this is the stated virtue
29:28and this is the actual action your consciousness your conscience in particular it's like your body
29:39if you say i want to diet but you eat 5 000 calories a day your body doesn't care that you want to diet
29:47your body just accumulates the fat right 3500 calories a pound or whatever right
29:52and your conscience doesn't particularly care what you say other than to note discrepancies
30:01between statements and actions it only cares what you do your conscience is empirical like yeah yeah
30:09yeah you know somebody says well i want to lose weight but they keep ordering giant meals in eating a
30:14whole pizza never going to the gym after a while you're like yeah yeah yeah i mean i don't i mean it's
30:20it's like shut up like you know you don't want to lose weight you just talk about it right so your
30:26conscience will tune out your stated goals because it only really cares about what you're doing what
30:31what the facts of the matter are what is objective because concepts being universal have to be objective
30:37and if you're a hypocrite then your conscience will recast you as a slave to delusion and most people
30:48who are hypocritical are that way because they're slaves because they have no capacity for consistency
30:54because they'll be beaten if they try to be consistent right i mean if the slave says to the master
30:59we're both human beings why should you get to rule me and the slave owner says well because i i can punish
31:08you and then the slaves all rise up and kill the slave owner right this is what happened
31:13dostoevsky's father was um punished by his serfs uh he was apparently such a drunk that the serfs
31:20punished him by pouring liquor down his throat until he died now then you may of course get punished by
31:26the state or whatever but that's the macbeth thing if killing people for power is good then why would i
31:32kill for the ruler why not just kill the ruler and become the ruler there's consistency to it and then
31:38he has to be punished by shakespeare for this consistency so the operations of empiricism what
31:47you actually do in the world is all recorded by your conscience and if you are hypocritical your
31:54conscience automatically puts you in the master slave category i mean masters are hypocritical because
32:01they have to lie about virtue when they're just deploying power to reward and punish people for
32:07the transfer of resources and all that right so if you're hypocritical you go into the master slave
32:12category and if you're in the master slave category then you can't be equal with anyone you can't have any
32:20kind of horizontal kind of contact or connection with anyone and you can't be close to anyone you can't
32:26be loved by anyone because the master cannot love the slave the slave cannot love the master and when
32:32you're hypocritical when you claim virtues but do the opposite you're in the master slave category in your
32:36conscience because you're either lying to others in order to control them or you're lying because
32:42you are controlled and then you don't get love you don't have a good relationship with yourself like
32:47when you lie to yourself you get pretty uneasy i mean if the slave says i'm like i'm just a slave and
32:54the guy can kill me so i'm just not gonna say anything okay well at least you're not lying to
32:59yourself you may have to lie out there in the world but at least you're not lying to yourself right
33:03but if you're lying to yourself then you are really locked into being a slave or a master
33:09and you can't adjust it and so if by acting in the opposite way that you preach you your unconscious
33:19so your unconscious or your conscience puts you in the master slave category then all you can do is
33:24manipulate bully and bribe or be manipulated bullied and bribed you cannot have any meeting of the minds
33:30you cannot have any quality you cannot have any love and you cannot have a good relationship with
33:34yourself and you have to avoid the good people and you have to hold close to you or at least as best
33:40you can the bad people but of course the bad people you can't trust right so we don't pair bond with
33:46people we pair bond on principles right if there's bob and doug and bob keeps his word in business and
33:53doug breaks his word in business you're going to do business not with bob but with bob's adherence to
33:58principle it's not bob who's trustworthy it's bob's adherence to principle it's the principle that's
34:03trustworthy and bob adherence to that principle makes you trust bob but what you aren't trusting is not
34:08bob the individual but bob's commitment to the principle of don't cheat your business partners
34:14right we pair bond on philosophy we trust on principle i don't wake up every morning wondering if
34:24my wife is going to be nice or mean she is relentlessly nice and thoughtful and caring and
34:31wonderful and all kinds of good stuff and that's her commitment to principle it's her nature to some
34:37degree but it's her commitment to principle so you can't pair bond without principle and you can't have
34:42principle if you lie to yourself corrupt immoral cowardly and so you lose all the good things in life
34:48without principles and when you're happy and doing good and you're proud of yourself and you're content
34:57with your actions and you have a good relationship with your conscience and you are loved by those
35:02around you and you love those around you and you are happy to see them and delighted to spend time
35:07with them would it ever cross your mind to say well what's the meaning of all of this what's the purpose
35:13of all of this you've done the right thing you've had reasonable amounts of courage you love and are
35:19loved by those around you you have a good conscience you've done good in the world you can die satisfied
35:26that you've known you know that you've added to the good of the world would it ever cross your mind
35:31in a state of happiness contentment love and security to ponder and wonder what the meaning of it all is
35:38what's the purpose of it all meaninglessness is the nihilism that rushes to fill in the void of
35:45integrity and i again i say this with humility i really do i'm not like i've not made perfect
35:50decisions blah blah blah but if you feel things are meaningless or you can't figure out the point
35:55then you're probably lying to yourself about courage and virtue and lying to others and then it's hard to
36:03figure out what the point is if you're surrounded by bad people and you're making bad decisions and you
36:07have a bad relationship with your own conscience and you can't find peace of mind and you lack love
36:11and pride and self-respect then of course it's like what's the purpose of all of this what's the
36:15point of all of this well the point of all of that is to fix it by taking steps towards reasonable
36:20amounts of courage virtue integrity and honesty i hope that helps love these questions free
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