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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

5099 MORAL RELATIVISM IS CONTROL!

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

Objectivist, Freedomainradio, Objectivism, Freedom, Conservative, Politics, Pacifism, Atheism, Liberal, News & Politics, Republican, Anarchy, Joe-rogan, Democrat, Atheist, Philosophy, Libertarian

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Either you control your own moral reasoning, or 'relativism' will be used to control you!

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0:00.0

Oh, righty, righty, hope you're doing well. So somebody wrote,

0:04.0

definitions always give me trouble. Is moral subjectivity or relativism basically

0:09.3

nihilism? Or is it a path to nihilism? Everything can be a virtue and a value,

0:12.9

which also means nothing can. Subjectivity slash relativism,

0:17.7

there are no universal standards really. So anything can be justified.

0:22.1

nihilism, nothing matters. Just do what you will. Okay.

0:26.9

So what you need to understand about these things. So if somebody says to you,

0:33.9

there are no standards, there are no objective values, no objective meanings,

0:38.1

no objective, anything, they're lying.

0:42.1

They're lying to your face. It's, I hate to say an IQ test,

0:47.5

but it's definitely a test of any expertise in philosophy.

0:49.9

So somebody says to you, well, there's no such thing as objective standards.

0:54.3

It's like, okay, well, you just used objective definitions of words to communicate

0:59.8

to me that there's no such thing as objective definition.

1:03.3

Again, it's one of these IQ tests. I mean, once you see it, right?

1:06.6

Nobody will be able to fool you again, right? So if somebody assembles a coherent

1:10.8

sentence to you and communicates something, then they cannot possibly communicate

1:20.6

an argument that contradicts the form of their communication.

1:23.3

The form of the communication is the argument, discard everything that anyone is saying

1:28.2

at any time, any place and simply look at the form of the argument.

1:31.6

Forget about the content. Everybody wants to jump over the form, jump straight into the content.

1:36.5

Literally 90 to 95% of philosophical problems that you have with people,

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