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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

5702 The Truth About Your Conscience

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This lecture explores the relationship between conscience and universally preferable behavior (UPB), highlighting the challenges of moral teachings in childhood. The speaker discusses how children develop their conscience through empathy and the influence of authority figures, emphasizing the need for consistency in moral principles. The impact of hypocrisy in moral teachings is examined, leading to disillusionment as children mature. Ultimately, the lecture advocates for a personal understanding of morality that prioritizes individual conscience over imposed moral rules.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, hello, everybody, hope you're doing well.

0:03.9

So this is a wee bit of a last show.

0:05.9

I did a show on conscience, but don't worry,

0:07.8

the second time will be better.

0:08.9

I don't know what happened at the first one.

0:10.1

It went in the flurry of the 15 different devices I used to record things so this is

0:14.7

a conscience the retake. Okay so I've often made the case that people get angry at UPP because UPP is a manifestation of what occurs in our minds which we call the conscience.

0:30.0

So the conscience is the universal part of universally preferable behavior.

0:37.0

And the opposite of conscience is hypocrisy, which in particular if it's invisible to the hypocrite is even more powerful

0:45.0

we'll get to that in a bit.

0:47.0

So as the old saying went when I was a kid,

0:50.0

what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

0:54.2

That if you say that Bob mustn't steal,

1:01.1

then how can you say that Doug must steal or it's alright if Doug does steal.

1:07.0

If you say these are morals and that morals are restrictions or

1:13.7

adifications on human behavior, which is why there's no sort of thought

1:18.3

crime outside of dystopian novels of China and, everywhere these days I've been goulagged

1:26.5

digitally goulag for thought crimes. So there is a basic set of stilligisms that run all operations of morality, right?

1:36.0

Number one is morality is specific to human actions, and morality is common to all humans at all times, in all locations, and under all circumstances.

1:49.0

So if you grabbed another kid's toy in the kindergarten or in the early grade school, the teacher

1:56.7

did not say, oh wait till tomorrow, tomorrow you can do it no problem, tomorrow it's totally fine to do,

2:01.5

but today you can't, right? Or they didn't say wait till it's totally fine to do but today you can't right or they didn't say wait till it's raining or

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