5518 Language is for LYING!

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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I explore the historical development of language, suggesting its creation was to foster loyalty to abstract ideals and replace physical strength. I use language to uncover truths and address its misuse for manipulation. Emphasizing clear communication and moral principles, I criticize convoluted philosophies and advocate for accessible discourse. Language's role in inciting conflicts and power dynamics is discussed, highlighting its potential for control. I promote philosophical transparency and empowerment through language to combat manipulation and encourage critical thinking for societal benefit. Promoting truth and clarity in philosophical discourse is key to enriching dialogue and fostering ethical behavior.

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0:00.0	Good morning everybody, hope you're doing well. So one thing you see in the media of course is this
0:07.1	constant lets you and him fight. And I think it's really important to understand just the two major reasons that language was developed.
0:19.0	So the two major reasons that language was developed was one to instill loyalty in an ideal, not in people, and two, to work as a substitute for physical strength and martial excellence.
0:38.0	Right, so that's sort of, this is why we have language, we have language to obscure and provoke not to clarify and reveal and so when I take language as philosophers should and use it to clarify and reveal, I am
0:58.8	attempting to wrestle in a sense a weapon from an enemy.
1:03.6	So it's really not hard to be clear in terms of language.
1:08.8	It's not hard to tell the truth, and most of what I say is in many ways ridiculously obvious. I mean wouldn't
1:17.6	wouldn't you say that? If it's wrong to hit adults then it should be wrong
1:21.5	to hit children. That when you blame people for their
1:26.9	failings you are accepting that both you and they have self-ownership and free will and that morality exists, that rape,
1:36.8	assault and murder can never be universally preferable behavior because to try and
1:41.2	make say, and by any of those in the category,
1:43.8	universally preferable behavior to race the categories, therefore can't be
1:47.0	valid.
1:48.0	I mean things are, they're pretty obvious, right?
1:51.4	They're pretty easy, That you cannot have opposite moral requirements for the same
2:00.2	species, right? You can't say that all non-red-headed people must refrain from murder, but all
2:08.6	red-headed people must murder, right? That would be crazy, right? So looking for consistency and
2:15.0	universality in morality, which is what is always claimed with morality,
2:18.2	well, it's all blindingly obvious. So then the question is, if it's all blindingly obvious.
2:22.6	So then the question is, if it's all blindingly obvious, and can be explained as I have,
2:28.0	I've explained morality to my daughter when she was three, four, and five years old, and you know, she's smarter than your average
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