5483 My Marriage is Worth FIVE DOLLARS!
Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I discuss the link between temptation strength and virtue, advocating for gradual challenges for personal growth. Listeners share virtuous challenges, sparking conversations on starting small before tackling big temptations.
We also touch on health advice credibility and gender perspectives on personal challenges. The importance of separating personal and professional contexts is emphasized, along with complexities in women's friendships like betrayal and trust issues.
The discussion extends to male-female dynamics, societal expectations, and gender roles. Exploring Schrodinger's feminist concept, we delve into women's behaviors within traditional roles and ideals.
Financial responsibility is highlighted, stressing prudent planning and personal accountability. A listener's $5 tip dilemma leads to discussions on relationship advice, stereotypes, and stay-at-home fathers. Gratitude is expressed to the audience for engaging in community platforms.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everybody. Welcome to your Sunday morning live. What have we got here? The 28th of April 2024. |
| 0:12.0 | And it's a strength. of April 2024. And is the strength of temptation to measure of virtue? |
| 0:20.0 | It's a strength of temptation to measure of virtue. |
| 0:23.0 | Oh, it's a test of virtue. |
| 0:27.0 | I mean, if you think of virtue as bench pressing, right? |
| 0:31.0 | To bench press five pounds, not that big a deal. It doesn't show that you're strong. |
| 0:36.0 | It shows that you're not paralyzed, but doesn't 200 pounds you're particularly strong |
| 0:47.0 | but if you can bench press 200 pounds you're probably probably quite strong, 300 pounds or whatever, right? |
| 0:55.8 | So what I would say is that if you have some resistance to temptation it shows that you have a moral sense |
| 1:06.4 | and then the stronger your resistance to temptation, the stronger your virtue. |
| 1:14.0 | And generally you want to work up to temptations, resistance, |
| 1:20.0 | like in the same way you don't just start benching 200 pounds the first time you walk into the gym you start off small and you you get larger right you get stronger and it's the same thing with temptations you want to practice on the little temptations before you go on to the very big ones. Start small, work |
| 1:36.8 | your way up. Everybody wants to start at the top, right? I'm going to control. We're going |
| 1:41.0 | to audit the Fed. It's like, yeah, okay, have you talked to people about corruption and virtue and child abuse in your own life? |
| 1:47.0 | No, because the Fed's what's really important. It's like, okay, this is like Fafford and the Gray Mouser, the curse of the Smalls and the Stars, |
| 1:54.0 | it's a science fiction, I guess a fantasy novel that I read. |
| 1:57.0 | A short story that I read many years ago where |
| 1:59.0 | Fafford and the Grey Mouser were, it's like a typical kind of thief slash big dumb fighter combo and they got hit with a |
| 2:09.2 | curse where they were either obsessed with tiny details like the puddle on a table |
| 2:14.2 | or obsessed with the largest abstractions and nothing in between. |
| 2:20.5 | So the curse of the Smalls and the Stars people either focus on |
| 2:23.4 | inconsequential things or on giant things that they can't control. Nobody wants to |
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