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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
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🗓️ 23 November 2025
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"Is it against UPB to preemptively attack? Someone is at the border of your property with a gun or troops are amassing at a border. Is it moral to attack them first? How far in advance are you able to act and still be moral?"
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Questions from X, listeners, or readers. Is it against UPP to preemptively attack? |
| 0:10.2 | UPB, of course, is a rational system of secular ethics. You can get the book for free at |
| 0:16.7 | free domain.com slash books. You can also get a shortened version in the last third of my free book |
| 0:21.7 | essential philosophy, is it against UPB to preemptively attack? Someone is at the border of your |
| 0:27.2 | property with a gun or troops are amassing at a border isn't moral to attack them first. How far in |
| 0:31.7 | advance are you able to act and still be moral? So, this is edge case paralysis. I'll be straight up with you. This is edge case |
| 0:42.4 | paralysis. So the goal of this kind of question is to sort of pretend that morality is so |
| 0:50.5 | helpless and hopeless and complicated that it can't ever really be sorted out or understood. |
| 1:00.3 | It is if somebody is starving to death |
| 1:05.4 | and they are stealing a loaf of bread, is that okay? |
| 1:09.2 | If someone has stolen something, and then they hand it to their |
| 1:17.0 | children and their grandchildren, at what point, I ask you, at what point does it become theirs? Is it |
| 1:25.2 | beyond... Right. And this is sort of like the argument of, well, what, or saying, well, what is the magical |
| 1:35.0 | difference, let's say that we say that the age of 18 is when somebody becomes a legal adult. |
| 1:40.7 | Well, what is the magical philosophical difference between, you know, 17.999 and 18 years |
| 1:47.9 | old and it's all this just edge case paralysis. And the origins, and I'll answer the question, |
| 1:56.8 | I will, I'll answer the question, but I just want you to understand that this is a tool of evil. |
| 2:04.9 | Now, I'm not saying that everybody who asks these questions is evil, obviously, right? |
| 2:09.2 | But you are unwitting tools of malevolent forces. |
| 2:13.9 | And the question of when is self-defense legitimate, |
| 2:18.4 | do you have to wait to get stabbed and, you know, all of this stuff? |
| 2:22.2 | Edge case paralysis. |
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