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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

6249 God, Philosophy and Morality!

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Molyneux looks at the difficulties in getting kids to understand morality, pointing out how dense philosophical ideas and religious lessons often fall short. He takes aim at old-school punishments that don't really build a true sense of right and wrong, and instead pushes for a straightforward approach that children can pick up on naturally. He stresses the need to focus on empathy, wrapping up with a call to create straightforward ways to teach morals that let kids tap into their own sense of agency.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right. Good evening, everybody. Hope you doing well. This is a follow-up to my conversation

0:06.8

slash debate with the fellow about religion and morals and ethics on the nature and existence

0:15.4

of God. The show is called, which was the 30th of December 2025, and I wanted to follow up, not to litigate after the

0:25.7

trial, it's done, so to speak, but to talk about the challenges of teaching children morality.

0:33.0

So, of course, when children are no longer babies and are in the toddler phase, you need to teach

0:38.7

them not to hit, not to grab, not to push, not to steal, and so on, and to be, you know,

0:48.3

good children. And the problem, of course, with hyper-complicated explanations of morality.

0:57.0

If you look at something like Kant, if you look at something like a Hegel or Nietzsche, of course,

1:04.6

you wouldn't really go to very far for morality.

1:07.1

But when you look at a variety of people and their arguments for morality,

1:11.6

then you have a problem, right?

1:15.5

And the problem, of course, is that it's too complicated to teach children.

1:22.0

If you were to say to somebody, you can only be moral when you are fluent in English, Latin, and ancient Greek,

1:34.1

right? If that would be your argument, then clearly it takes many years to become competent

1:39.4

in those three languages and it would be, you know, functionally and practically impossible for the

1:46.6

child to be, for the person to be moral. So with religion, with, again, I'll speak about Christianity,

1:55.8

which of course is the religion I'm most familiar with, if you say to kids, well, you can't steal because that's wrong,

2:06.1

and God says thou shalt not steal. You shouldn't lie because thou shalt not bear false witness.

2:14.3

You should not hit. I mean, there's not any sort of specific thing about that in the Bible,

2:20.1

like in the Ten Commandments and so on,

2:21.9

but in general we have a don't, don't hit, don't whack.

2:25.7

Other kids in the face.

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