5409 The Truth About Sadism! - Part 5
Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
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🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Brief Summary
This episode explores the concept of moral sadism, where evil is disguised as good. We discuss examples of manipulation and the double standards that exist in society. We also examine the religious and secular perspectives on sadism and its consequences. Additionally, we delve into the historical and psychological aspects of sadistic behavior, as well as its connection to addiction. We challenge the notion that evil is solely a result of ignorance and explore various explanations, including the impact of dopamine. Lastly, we discuss the challenges of categorizing human behavior and the importance of recognizing and addressing the effects of unrecognized child abuse.
Chapters
0:00:00 Sadism: Evolution and Forms
0:02:26 Society's Definition of Evil and Individual Application of Principles
0:10:23 The Cycle of Sadism and Christianity's Understanding
0:14:17 Breaking the Cycle of Sadism and the Loss of Morality
0:20:20 Morality as a Tool for Preying on Others
0:23:34 The Functional Role of Sadism in Systems of Power
0:26:36 Understanding the Morbid Perversion of Sadistic Behavior
0:29:34 The Shift from Evil to Mental Dysfunction
0:31:54 The Concept of Moral Mania and its Implications
0:41:37 Sadists as Degenerates in Victorian Era
0:43:44 Degenerates vs. Evil: Clarifying Moral Terminology
0:43:56 The Definition of Evil and Social Norms
0:46:33 The Source of Evil: Unrecognized Child Abuse
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, time for Eseidism, part five, and we are going to describe in this section. |
| 0:12.4 | We're going to describe the evolution. |
| 0:14.5 | The sadism is a form of immorality and there is of course many aspects of sadism. |
| 0:21.8 | One of course is the direct sadism of, you know, as the |
| 0:25.0 | mark we decide did, opening up wounds in people cutting them open and then |
| 0:28.4 | dripping hot wax into the wounds, sort of physical abuse, physical violence, physical hurt. |
| 0:35.0 | But moral sadism is by far the most prevalent widespread and destructive form of sadism. |
| 0:43.0 | Moral sadism is when you do evil under the umbrella of good. |
| 0:49.3 | It's a form of gaslighting that you convince your victims that there's moral virtues in what you're doing or it's good to do what you do. |
| 0:55.8 | It's good for them to submit. |
| 0:56.8 | It's good for them to obey. |
| 0:58.8 | So moral stateism is really the most foundational difficulty in danger that we face. |
| 1:03.2 | Now, of course I'm sort of formulating this, |
| 1:04.8 | I think, oh, what about serial killers? |
| 1:06.4 | They don't particularly go with morals as a whole, |
| 1:09.6 | but, and it's true, of course, but serial killers are extremely rare and your odds of being harmed by a serial killer are virtually zero. |
| 1:18.0 | Whereas you are 100% going to be harmed by moral sadism. My moral sadism. So moral sadism for instance is saying, |
| 1:28.0 | well if there are a set of laws that I don't want to have enforced, I will portray everyone punished by those laws as an innocent victim, |
| 1:36.0 | family separation, cruelty, and so on. Whereas if there's a set of laws that I do want to have enforced, then I will talk about the rule of law and |
| 1:45.5 | morality and you get what you deserve and faff around, find out, you know, that kind of stuff. |
| 1:50.9 | So that's a form of you beat them because you want them to be good and |
| 1:59.6 | they bought it upon themselves through disobedience to moral laws and you're just a |
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