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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

6219 Does Virtue Exist?

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Molyneux looks into morals and rational secular ethics by focusing on relationships and what counts as real. He sets things you can touch against social ideas you can't, saying that relationships lack a physical side but still influence our identities and moral setups. He notes the subjective side of ethics and value, and considers how language defines our ties to others. In the end, he argues that life's meaning comes from relationships and social constructs, pushing back on the view that something must be tangible to exist.

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0:00.0

All right. Hi, everybody. Saphne Mollin you from Free Domain. So this is a little chitty chatty about morals.

0:09.7

This is sort of an introduction to the concept of UPP, rational, secular ethics. Not so much the proof for it, which I've done many times before.

0:18.6

You can get the free book at Fre freedemand.com slash books,

0:21.0

but really when people say, do morals exist?

0:26.8

And that's an interesting question, of course, because the question is,

0:33.2

what exists and what does not?

0:36.4

Now, if you say, he ain't heavy, he's my brother, you have a brother named Bob,

0:44.0

well, does brother exist? Your brother, the guy, he does exist as a human being,

0:52.3

and certainly you share genes and so on, right?

0:56.0

But does your brother as a relationship exist?

1:00.2

Does the relationship exist?

1:03.4

So I meet my wife, I met my wife almost 25 years ago, we got married 24 years ago,

1:15.2

and we have a vow that binds us, right?

1:24.6

So we are husband and wife, we are married. Does the marriage exist? Well, no, it doesn't exist because we're not bound together.

1:28.4

If we were Siamese twins, then we would share a bunch of organs.

1:31.5

If we were chained together, you know, the chain together would join us together.

1:36.0

But does something called a marriage exist?

1:40.4

No, what exists are the vows.

1:44.3

There are certainly legal documents and so on.

1:48.8

But the marriage as a relationship does not exist.

1:55.1

Ah, this is my boyfriend.

1:56.4

This is my girlfriend.

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