5316 PEACEFUL PARENTING AND UPB - Locals Answers
Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
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🗓️ 25 November 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
What if someone does something intentionally sadistic, such as knowing someone's trigger and pushing against it, but that thing is not physical but, let's say, sonic (making a certain noise known to be distressing)? Or lies about someone, to be more general? Just because something can be, in your assessments, not a case of immorality in the Category, why does that mean that the whole category is now off the table to not be UPB?
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I have wondered how much my early childhood trauma of being yelled at a lot plays into my current interpretation of her voice, but even then the difference seems to me somewhat subtle. How can I objectively identify these two cases?
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| 0:00.0 | Well, well, good morning everybody. Hope you're doing well. |
| 0:03.6 | Stephen Mollyy from Free Domain. Let's get on with the questions from Free Domain |
| 0:08.3 | locals.com, great community. I hope you'll check it out. |
| 0:11.8 | UPP question, ooh, that's so tasty, that's my favorite. |
| 0:17.0 | I may be mistaken on the tenets, but if the basis of UPP seems to be offenses against someone's wishes slash boundaries, rape being not |
| 0:26.2 | UPP because it is not possible for it to be consensual, thus always guaranteed to be |
| 0:30.8 | against someone's wishes slash guaranteed to be breaking their boundaries, |
| 0:34.5 | then why can something only be immoral |
| 0:36.8 | if it's part of a category |
| 0:37.9 | that it has to be against someone's wishes? |
| 0:40.1 | What if someone does something intentionally sadistic, such as knowing someone's trigger and pushing him against it? |
| 0:46.8 | But that thing is not physical, but let's say Sonic, making a certain noise known to be distressing? |
| 0:52.0 | Or lies about someone to be more general, |
| 0:54.8 | just because something can be in your assessment not a case of immorality in the category. |
| 1:00.5 | Why does that mean that the whole category is now off the table to not be |
| 1:04.0 | UPP? Great question, I appreciate it. Now I also appreciate that there's a lot of |
| 1:08.6 | static that comes up in people's brains about ethics, morality. So morality tends to fall into two categories in our minds, |
| 1:18.4 | historically sort of the way that we've been taught at. Number one is that |
| 1:22.1 | morality is compelled, right? It either is |
| 1:25.5 | compelled because it's a commandment of God, go to heaven, go to hell, it's |
| 1:29.4 | compelled, or the law, do this or go to jail it's compelled or morality is about being nice and |
| 1:39.1 | thoughtful and considerate and diplomatic and not upsetting people and being good that way and these |
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