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🗓️ 21 April 2019
⏱️ 88 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I have to take a moment and respond to some statements made on this show a couple |
0:06.6 | weeks ago when I was not present. Now, I don't listen to this program. I've never had to listen |
0:12.6 | to my own podcast. I'm not terribly sure what it's about. All of this percolated down to me through |
0:18.0 | the hate messages I received from the weepy woke people, identity Europa members, sexual offenders, |
0:24.8 | and other such individuals who contact us. And that gave me the gist of what you |
0:29.1 | creatures have said. And I feel that I must set the record straight. First off, allow me to settle |
0:35.6 | this trivial controversy. Yes, it is wrong to have children. I've explained this many times. |
0:42.5 | Imagine if I built a robot capable of feeling pain. And then I told it I'm going to unplug it in 70 |
0:48.3 | minutes. And then I set it on fire. It would be wheeling around in circles, flailing its flanges, |
0:54.8 | going, why, why, why, error, error. And now that'd be funny. And we'd all be laughing, of course. |
1:00.7 | But I've still done a bad thing. Don't have children. There's nothing to do with climate change. |
1:06.6 | And it's nothing to do with the Jacobin articles by people who fucked up and had kids and are trying |
1:10.8 | to dilute you all into thinking they didn't fuck up, which we all know they did. We all think that. |
1:15.8 | Evidence, we don't have kids. There you go. Primary arguments for having kids. I'm bored. |
1:21.2 | I'm ready for the next stage in life. I want to watch something learn about |
1:24.8 | dandelions and ethnic cleansing. I'm aging and I've given up on all my dreams. So I have to |
1:29.5 | offload them onto someone else and a desperate bid for immortality. These are all modeling selfish |
1:34.5 | reasons for bringing life into existence. You might be thinking, oh, I can program my child to feel |
1:39.7 | happiness. Well, guess what, Amalie? You can devote your resources right now to those who are |
1:44.4 | suffering in poverty, to organizations as imperfect as they are that can direct your excess income |
1:49.2 | towards social justice, political change. And if your only ethical imperative is to create joy, |
1:54.8 | you can do that by putting LSD in your boss's coffee. Ideally, ideally, we would forge a global |
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