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 life. |
| 0:04.8 | On this year, the 17th, this year of our Lord, 24, the 17th of April, and we're just going to go straight in, man. |
| 0:17.1 | No ramble, no intro, no nothing. Well, maybe a little, no, no. |
| 0:21.7 | The UK has moved to create a smoke feed generation with a bill to make it in defense to sell tobacco to anyone born after 2008. |
| 0:26.7 | Now it is possible for everyone to prefer prohibiting selling tobacco to those individuals, |
| 0:31.5 | even the individual could prefer it. |
| 0:32.5 | It's unlikely to be sure yet possible. |
| 0:34.8 | Now, do you know why the government is against nicotine? |
| 0:41.6 | I'm not a fan of smoking. |
| 0:43.4 | Don't smoke, but do you know why the government is not a fan of nicotine? |
| 0:47.9 | Because you'd be surprised. |
| 0:49.5 | This is something I read, whether it's true or not, |
| 0:51.4 | you can double check, don't take anything I say as hospital in the medical field. But I was reading that even if you smoke for like 20 years, |
| 0:58.7 | a pack a day, your increased chances of lung cancer are like 15%. Now, there's other issues. |
| 1:05.6 | I get all of that, but it's, you know, your lifetime chance of getting cancer is like, what, 30%, 40%, something like that. |
| 1:14.2 | So, yeah, 50% for lung cancer. |
| 1:16.4 | Now that's way up. |
| 1:17.1 | It's 0.5% for lung cancer. |
| 1:18.5 | If you don't smoke, so it's a lot higher, 30 times the risk. |
| 1:22.0 | But not crippling in that way. |
| 1:24.7 | You'd think it was like 90% or something like that. |
| 1:29.6 | So, yeah, there's a love of weed and a hostility to nicotine, which I think is quite interesting in a public health, right? They've hated |
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