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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Stefan contemplates the quality versus quantity of life and suggests simplifying terminology to enhance clarity. Audience engagement prompts reflection on personal preferences in ethical dilemmas, such as the balance between fitness and charitable actions. Ultimately, he emphasizes the complexity of ethical decision-making and the impact of individual choices on societal welfare.
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| 0:00.0 | I just a little follow-up to the call earlier today, which is a very, very good call. |
| 0:05.3 | And I'm always amazed and impressed at how much there is. |
| 0:11.4 | After 44 years in philosophy, there's this endless cavalcade of obvious in hindsight and basic questions that need to be answered and deserve to be answered. |
| 0:24.3 | And the one that the fellow today came with, which was about the ethics of emergencies, |
| 0:32.5 | was very interesting. So I think that the UPP framework handles this. I try not to sort of wedge |
| 0:40.5 | things in too much, but I think that the UPB framework handles this. So in UPB, you have |
| 0:47.3 | universally preferable behavior, that which is preferable and enforceable. And we have aesthetically preferable actions, |
| 0:58.3 | that which are specific and universal and not enforceable. So, for instance, being on time. |
| 1:08.0 | It's a specific action. It's good for everyone to be on time. It's better for |
| 1:13.7 | everyone to be on time. As good and evil, better, worse, it's better to be on time, but it's not |
| 1:20.4 | enforceable through violence. Another example, of course, would be, let's say, not swearing in front of children. |
| 1:28.9 | To swear in front of children would be an aesthetically negative action. |
| 1:32.1 | It's a specific action, swearing, like being on time. |
| 1:36.2 | It is universal. |
| 1:37.1 | It is always better to not swear in front of children, but it's not enforceable violently. |
| 1:43.2 | It would be enforceable through ostracism or detachment. |
| 1:46.8 | If somebody keeps swearing in front of your kids, |
| 1:49.5 | then you just don't hang with them. |
| 1:51.6 | You don't spend time. |
| 1:53.1 | Being polite or swearing at people or something like that, |
| 1:57.9 | being polite, being reasonably diplomatic and so on is better than being, you know, |
| 2:04.1 | rude or horrible. It's universal in that it's better as a whole. And again, this is the initiation |
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