5617 Dealing with Irrational People!
Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
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🗓️ 1 September 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right. |
| 0:00.6 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:01.3 | Famolony from free domain? |
| 0:03.0 | A great question from Facebook, from Robert. |
| 0:05.9 | You've talked about universal morality. |
| 0:07.5 | Is there anything to be done, or is there any way to work with people whose morality is screwed? |
| 0:12.0 | For example, politicians who believe might makes right, |
| 0:14.7 | and that the state has the authority to do whatever it wants to, |
| 0:16.8 | citizens for the greater good. |
| 0:19.3 | That's a great question. |
| 0:20.7 | How do you work with people who |
| 0:23.5 | reject moral standards? Well, see, I mean, politicians, it's funny because they don't reject |
| 0:29.1 | moral standards. What they do is they claim universal morality as a cloak for their power addiction, right? |
| 0:39.1 | That is the really, really tragic thing, is that they mimic morality. |
| 0:44.3 | I mean, predators mimic the opposite, right? |
| 0:47.5 | So grass cannot hurt an antelope. |
| 0:51.4 | In fact, grass is a source of food for an antelope. |
| 0:56.4 | A tiger has stripes so that it looks like grass, right? So a predator will mimic that which is harmless or beneficial to you in order |
| 1:02.1 | to get close enough to pray on you. And everyone talks about the common good, but the common good |
| 1:08.1 | is the new superstitious god of the ancient witch doctors, right? So the ancient |
| 1:14.6 | witch doctors would say that the tribal gods have needs and preferences and morals and morals and |
| 1:23.2 | morals and goals and desires and plans, but you as a a non-witch doctor, have no access to them, |
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