6259 Three HARD Questions! Stefan Molyneux Interviewed

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 11 January 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Richard joins Stefan Molyneux for a conversation on whether government is truly needed and the importance of sticking to non-aggression. They touch on variations in intelligence across racial groups and the hurdles parents face. Molyneux pushes for creating supportive homes rather than chasing social rank, and stresses how shared ethical rules could lead to a better world for kids down the line.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Today we have a wonderful guest, Stefan Molinou, who I've been listening to for over a decade.
0:06.3	So I'm very, very happy to host him, be able to talk to him.
0:09.8	Stefan, welcome to the show.
0:11.5	Thank you very much.
0:12.4	Great pleasure to be here.
0:14.2	I remember when I started listening to you, I was really shocked by one of your ideas, one of your opinions you discussed, do we need a government?
0:24.5	So I was really surprised about that.
0:26.5	I thought, how come?
0:27.7	Of course, we need a government.
0:29.3	Nowadays, of course, I'm not so sure.
0:31.1	So I wanted to ask you, how can replace its various functions?
0:35.3	And do we really need the government?
0:37.5	Well, to be fair, it's not actually my idea. I got the idea from my kindergarten teacher.
0:42.5	And we all got the idea from our kindergarten teachers because what did our kindergarten teachers
0:47.1	tell us if we used force or stole from other kids? What did they? What did your kindergarten? Richard say to you.
0:55.8	What did your teacher say to you? Yeah, you can maybe take it back or, you know, we have to,
1:01.9	depending on the culture, maybe you can take it back or we can apologize? See, sorry. But was it ever
1:06.7	acceptable to initiate the use of force to get what you want.
1:11.2	Yeah, of course not.
1:11.7	Of course not.
1:12.1	Right.
1:12.8	So human progress tends to really take quantum leaps forward when we take simple everyday
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