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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

5493 The Dangers of a Pet Fetish!

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

Politics, Democrat, Atheism, Joe-rogan, News & Politics, Objectivism, Freedom, Anarchy, Atheist, Philosophy, Conservative, Freedomainradio, Liberal, Republican, Pacifism, Objectivist, Libertarian

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

"good day Stefan, I'd like a clarification on your definition of 'love'. As I understand it Love: is our involuntary response to virtue. How does that correlate to pets, very young relatives, and other relationships where virtue isn't the primary source. Is love only possible in intimate relationships? What do you call emotional distress when a death of a beloved pet dies? Obviously I'm not equating pets with people, but our emotions seem to treat them similarly. Not sure if there is an evolutionary or philosophical explanation that you can give but it seems to me that Love: is simply an evolutionary response to attachment based on resource gathering to include family structure. Again huge respect to your work, I'm just hoping to get more clarification on your thought process."

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0:00.0

Good morning, everybody. Hope you doing well.

0:01.9

Stefan Molyneux from Free Domain.

0:03.4

Thank you for your questions, Freedomain.locals.com.

0:06.7

And we are talking of love.

0:10.7

Free domain, good day, Stefan.

0:11.8

I'd like a clarification on your definition of love.

0:14.8

As I understand it, love is our involuntary response to virtue.

0:19.3

How does that correlate to pets for a young

0:21.1

relatives and other relationships where virtue isn't the primary source? Is love only possible

0:26.9

in intimate relationships? What do you call emotional distress when the death of a beloved pet

0:33.7

dies? Obviously, I'm not equating pets with people, but her emotions seem to treat them

0:37.7

similarly. Not sure if there is an evolutionary or philosophical explanation that you can give,

0:43.4

but it seems to me that love is simply an evolutionary response to attachment based on resource

0:48.1

gathering to include family structure. Again, huge respect to your work. I'm just hoping to get more

0:52.5

clarification on your thought process.

0:56.0

Yeah, that's a fine question, and I appreciate the question. So let's dig in. Now, when it comes

1:07.9

to love, we have to talk about two aspects of it.

1:12.8

Evolutionary attachment and philosophical love.

1:16.8

So if we are to say that love is a form of high attachment and high, strong desire for resource provision and so on, then we can include the evolutionary

1:31.2

situation, right? So monkeys have prefer, obviously, feeding their own young to feeding various

1:38.2

random animals and birds undergo great sacrifices to build nests and to feed their own young.

1:45.8

There's one kind of bird that teaches its offspring to admit a particular chirp.

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