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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

6033 The Ethics of KILLING! Twitter/X Space

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Summary

Friday Morning Twitter Space 11 July 2025

In this episode, I examine the relationship between personal trauma, substance use, and moral dilemmas. We discuss how many individuals turn to self-medication to cope with emotional pain, highlighting the psychological factors at play. I challenge the notion that drug use leads to genuine insights, arguing it often masks deeper issues.

We also explore the importance of responsibility in parenting and moral education, emphasizing the need for empathy and accountability. Through personal anecdotes, I urge listeners to reflect on their life choices and strive for deeper connections. This conversation invites engagement with the complexities of drug use and morality, advocating for an understanding of human growth and redemption.

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0:00.0

Well, good morning.

0:01.5

Everybody, hope you're doing well.

0:02.8

It is the 11th of July, 2025.

0:07.4

And apparently it's just my low-res opinion, man.

0:11.4

That's just like your opinion, dude.

0:16.9

So it's funny, you know, because these landmines that have occurred in the past,

0:25.6

you know, some of them aren't here on X anymore, and some of them are, and one of the ones that I had forgotten about completely, there was a martial arts one, of course, there was a free will

0:31.5

determinism one, there's the dating ancestor one, which is a bit newer, and the one that I'd completely forgotten about,

0:39.5

because I don't have any people who do drugs around me, and I haven't had anyone who does drugs around me since I probably, I don't know, late teens,

0:55.0

and I never really knew any heavy drug users,

0:57.5

just some people who used marijuana and things like that.

1:01.4

So I just don't move in those circles, and I don't know those people.

1:06.0

And so, yeah, the drug thing.

1:12.9

Now, it's not, you know, there's this old meme about if somebody's a smoker or an alcoholic and somebody says,

1:20.8

you should quit smoking and you should quit drinking and be like, yeah, yeah, I know, man,

1:26.5

I'm on it, right?

1:44.7

But if you say to a weed addict that he should quit weed, you get this, you know, hey man, it's all natural and, you know, like arsenic, it's not natural. And it's enlightenment and it keeps me in touch with myself. And it's, it's fun, it's social, it's, you know, whatever, right? Just, just endless justifications.

1:47.1

And listen, I'll be straight up.

1:51.6

I mean, I really sympathize with the trauma.

2:01.1

I mean, people don't do drugs because they are not traumatized.

2:02.9

They don't do drugs because they're happy.

2:05.0

They do drugs because they're unhappy.

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