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🗓️ 3 January 2026
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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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