6100 EVEN MORE ANSWERS TO ‘X’ LISTENER QUESTIONS 7!
Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
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🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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"Is the proper formulation for UPB’s always an outwardly directed negation of the universal preference?
"Also, it seems there are universal preferences which aren’t UPB’s until other UPB’s are already met. Which (if any) UPB do you see as primary? (I think it’s do not lie).
"Stefan can you talk about the cock-blocking mother? It is a mother who has lived her life, had her kids, but is divorced. And so decides to live with her daughter (usually first born) under the guise of it being economically smart. The daughter therefore never gets to date 1/2"
"Who do you think was the last or latest 'great' or 'towering' philosopher?"
"How can the right to freedom of speech be reconciled with the immorality of telling lies?
"If (since?) the two can't be reconciled, can you think of a better principle to encourage civil discourse while protecting society from the harms of deception?"
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Stefan Molydeau from Free Domain, freedomain.com slash jane to help out philosophy, |
| 0:05.4 | really would appreciate that. And let's get to some more questions from the fine, fine listeners |
| 0:12.1 | at X. Well, the first one is not so fine. A fellow, I assume as a fellow, writes, |
| 0:18.1 | is the proper formulation for UPBs always an outwardly directed negation of |
| 0:22.2 | the universal preference. Also, it seems that there are universal preferences which aren't |
| 0:27.1 | UPB until other UPBs are already met, which, if any, UPB do you see as primary? I think it's |
| 0:32.6 | do not lie. Oh my. Oh my, oh my, oh my,, my, oh, my, oh, my. So I would like to give you, if you'd be so very kind and indulge me, I would like to give you a communication 101. |
| 0:51.2 | Communication 101. Now, if you want other people, say me, to answer your question, |
| 0:59.5 | then you need to make the question comprehensible. |
| 1:04.3 | I mean, you don't have to do it, but I'm not going to answer a question that is not clearly stated. |
| 1:12.5 | So if we look at is the proper formulation for UPB's always an outly directed negation of the universal preference? |
| 1:17.9 | I'm not sure exactly what that means. It's not very common language. I've been cooking around |
| 1:22.4 | in philosophy for decades, and I'm not really sure what an outwardly directed negation of it of the universal |
| 1:29.2 | preference. Now, what this means is that you are not good at talking about ideas. You may be good |
| 1:38.0 | at thinking them, but you're not good and you don't have a lot of empathy for the other person. |
| 1:42.9 | So if I were to type out a question, as I often do, |
| 1:47.3 | what I would do is I would say to myself, does the question make sense? Can I illustrate it any |
| 1:54.4 | better? Can I provide examples? Can I provide an analogy? Can I provide it in a syllogistical format or something like that? That would be |
| 2:04.1 | a way that I would explain it. I mean, I think, I think with regards to UPB, an outwardly directed |
| 2:13.5 | negation of the universal preference. I think what he means is, if we were to put forward a |
| 2:19.6 | UPB statement, thou shalt steal, that's an outwardly directed in that it's an action, because |
| 2:27.2 | it's behavior not thoughts, and it's a negation, which is thou shalt not steal. So, |
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