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Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 31 August 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Stefan Molyneux answers listener questions from X, examining the relationship between objective and subjective truths, asserting that objectivity is tied to human consciousness. He discusses Universally Preferable Behavior (UPB), critiques moral arguments for God's existence, and addresses practical issues like divorce and inheritance. Molyneux highlights the dangers of nihilism, calls for active moral engagement, and concludes that value is subjective and individual responsibility is crucial. He emphasizes the need for proactive philosophical inquiry to combat moral decay in society.

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0:00.0	All right. Hello, everybody. It is the 29th of August 20, 25, and questions, comments, issues,
0:09.9	challenges from the great and noble and censorship-resistant platform of X. You can follow me at
0:18.3	Stefan Molyneux, and if you find these answers to be helpful, if they clear up issues in your life, I would very much appreciate your support at freedomane.com slash donate.
0:29.2	That's freedomain.com slash donate. All right. So someone has put forward an argument.
0:36.6	To be objective is to exist independent of opinion and or thought, including the absence of
0:44.1	human minds or brains.
0:47.1	I'll read the whole argument and then we'll get into it.
0:49.8	Gravity continues to exist independent of opinion and or thought, including the absence
0:53.2	of human minds and or brains. Therefore, gravity is objective. Morality grounded in God continues
0:59.8	to exist independent of opinion and or thought, including the absence of human minds and
1:05.6	or brains. Therefore, morality grounded in God is objective. Universalally preferable behavior, my theory of ethics,
1:13.5	does not continue to exist independent of opinion and or thought,
1:16.8	including absence of human minds and or brains, therefore UPB is not objective.
1:21.4	The moral argument for God.
1:22.9	1. If God does not exist, objective moral values do not exist.
1:27.1	2. Objective moral values do exist.
1:29.4	Three, therefore God exists.
1:32.5	To put this in an analogy, if an object blocking the light does not exist, a shadow does not
1:38.9	exist.
1:39.6	If a shadow exists, an object blocking the light exists.
1:43.3	In other words, we don't see the object
1:44.9	directly. We see its effects. A black hole we cannot see, but we can see the effects of it
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