5473 ACCEPT YOURSELF DAMMIT!
Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2024
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
In a thought-provoking episode of Wednesday Night Live, we explore the UK's push for a smoke-free generation by banning tobacco sales to those born after 2008. We discuss the government's stance on nicotine, compare it with marijuana legalization, and touch on societal views of smoking and cannabis.
Delving into moral dilemmas, we ponder altruism, moral obligations, and ethics. By discussing relationships and notions of exploitation versus value, we stress communication and respect for healthy connections.
Transitioning to dating dynamics, we examine gender roles, empathy, and the impact of maternal influences. Emphasizing self-acceptance, we promote embracing authenticity and compassion for oneself and others.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening everybody. Welcome to your Wednesday Night Live. |
| 0:05.0 | On this year, the 17th, |
| 0:07.8 | this year of our Lord, 20, 24, the 17th of April, and we're just going to go straight in, man. |
| 0:17.2 | No ramble, no intro, no nothing. |
| 0:20.5 | Well, maybe a little, no, no, no. |
| 0:21.8 | The UK has moved to create a smoke-feet generation with a bill to make it a defense to sell tobacco |
| 0:25.0 | to sell tobacco to anyone born after 2008. |
| 0:26.8 | Now it is possible for everyone to prefer prohibiting selling tacked tobacco to those. |
| 0:31.0 | Individuals, even the individual could prefer it, it as unlikely to be sure yet possible. |
| 0:34.8 | Now, do you know why the government is against nicotine? |
| 0:41.8 | I'm not a fan of smoking, don't smoke, but do you know why the government is not a fan of nicotine? |
| 0:48.0 | Because you'd be surprised, this is something I read, whether it's true or not, you can can double check don't take anything I say as |
| 0:53.6 | hospital in the medical field but I was reading that even if you smoke for like 20 |
| 0:58.0 | years a pack a day your increased chances of lung cancer are like 15%. Now there's other issues and I get all of that but |
| 1:08.8 | it's, you know, your lifetime chance of getting cancer is like what 30% 40% something like that |
| 1:14.0 | so yeah 50% for lung cancer now that's way up it's 0.5% for lung cancer if you don't smoke |
| 1:19.0 | so it's a lot higher 30 times the risk but not crippling in that way you think it was like 90% or |
| 1:26.3 | something like that so yeah there's there's a love of weed and a hostility to |
| 1:30.6 | nicotine which I think is quite interesting in a public health right they've |
| 1:35.0 | hated it's a nicotine but they haven't the governments are beginning to really love weed which I think |
| 1:42.2 | is quite quite interesting. |
| 1:47.0 | So let's see here, good evening. |
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