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5916 Judging Overweight People?

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This lecture examines societal perceptions of obesity, focusing on moral judgments and individual choice. The speaker discusses the complexities of criticizing overweight individuals, particularly those with medical conditions, and how exceptions complicate accountability and dialogue. Using a predator-prey analogy, the talk illustrates the destabilizing effect of uncertainty in moral reasoning. Emphasizing the need for clarity, the lecture argues that critiques should center on those capable of making health-related choices, concluding with a call to recognize the assumptions underlying moral criticism to foster meaningful discourse on personal agency and societal expectations.

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0:00.0

Good morning, everybody.

0:02.0

Great question from Facebook.

0:03.9

Somebody says, very unoriginal question.

0:05.7

If an obese person, e.g. with Hashimoto's, has to exercise seven times more for seven hours a day, as chat GPT says, compared to one hour of exercise for a happier person, is it permissible to criticize such fat people?

0:17.9

I don't know, but it seemed that the key question would be what proportion of

0:22.4

fat people would have to exercise impractically so much? Does genie coefficient genetically determine

0:27.9

such impracticalities that determine aesthetics in the happiness of most relationships?

0:32.5

So this is, it's a great, you know, it's not an unoriginal question. It's actually a very

0:36.8

deep question, and it is

0:38.9

kind of central to what is going on in life and societies to all these days. So the general

0:44.8

pattern goes something like this. Propose a rule, and then somebody generally attempts,

0:51.4

I'm not saying you, but in general people try to paralyze you with an exception.

0:55.6

It is a way of making sure or trying to make sure that people don't have certainty.

1:03.3

So disarming your opponent in any moral conflict is really essential.

1:08.8

I mean, in conflicts as a whole, if you could disarm your opponent,

1:11.7

I mean, if you're facing an enemy and you can deny them access to weapons and ammunition,

1:17.8

well, you pretty much win the war, right? So getting people to be disarmed. Disarming people

1:24.6

is foundational to conflict, like dishonest conflict, right? Honest

1:29.9

conflict, you have your reason and you have your evidence and you have your debates and so on.

1:34.3

So bad people want to disarm good people. Now bad people are certain without any particular

1:42.6

reason. They're just certain.

1:44.6

They're operating at a fairly animal-like certainty, right?

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