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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 101 minutes

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In this Sunday evening X Space on 14 December 2025, Stefan Molyneux discusses the shooting at Bondi Beach during a Freedomain call-in show. He talks with callers about Ayn Rand's views on ethics, pushing back on ideas of flourishing compared to mere survival. He examines wealth patterns and how the public perceives them. The discussion offers ideas for teaching ethics to children, pointing out the value of a layered approach to morality.

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0:00.0	Already, ready.
0:01.3	Good evening, everybody.
0:03.7	Hope you're doing well.
0:04.5	Steve Mullen and Freedom Main had a week, cancelish tonight, of a call-in show,
0:10.4	so I wanted to talk about a variety of things.
0:15.9	Now, one of the things I wanted to talk about was the shooting in Bondi Beach in Australia.
0:24.8	But that having been said, I am very happy, of course, to hear your questions and comments.
0:31.3	Let's start with a caller.
0:32.1	I can always get to that in a second.
0:34.1	Yes, radical capitalist.
0:35.5	What is on your mind?
0:37.2	How can I help? Hey, can you hear me? Yes, radical capitalist. What is on your mind? How can I help?
0:39.0	Hey, can you hear me?
0:41.0	Yes, go ahead.
0:42.0	Okay, I wanted to ask in particular where you think you deviate with Aindran on the topic of I think.
0:48.5	What She Got Wrong? Any proposition like that would be fun to talk about.
0:53.2	Sure. I'm happy to do that. I've got some shows on this. You can look up just Einrand at FDRPodcast.com.
1:00.7	So, Ein Rand's approach to ethics is that which is good for man's survival is the best. That which promotes man's survival,
1:12.6	that which is good for man's survival and flourishing is the best.
1:15.6	Reason is the best tool for the flourishing and enhancement
1:20.6	of man's survival.
1:21.6	Therefore, reason is the good, and everyone who acts against reason
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