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Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager | PragerU

Fireside Chat Ep. 124 – Are People Basically Good?

Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager | PragerU

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How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.85.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

They may be the two most important questions one can ask: Are people basically good? And how do you make good people? In other words, is the ultimate goal of parenting to raise children to be good rather than merely to feel good? Don't miss the special video question with Candace Owens! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager, this is Otto, you know Otto by now, maybe you don't know me,

0:05.1

I'm his sidekick. By the way, you're not allowed according to some of the animal rights folks,

0:12.3

you shouldn't say I'm his owner, I'm his human companion. Did you know that? That you're not

0:20.3

supposed to say owner? Yeah, but I'm okay, I own Otto. And he's okay with the two, we had a man

0:28.2

to dog talk and he was fine. Let me give him a little rub because his head is on this side this

0:34.5

time, which is nice, I love this guy. All right, good to be with you. So for those of you new,

0:41.9

this is my fireside chat from my home, I'm Dennis Prager, as I told you, this is a chance for you to

0:48.4

know me better and what I stand for. And my way to get your feedback, because I take your questions,

0:55.7

I also get a lot of email from you and I know that people watch all over the world, we've

1:01.0

gotten questions from 52 countries and obviously there are viewers and many more. So that means a lot

1:06.8

to me and it does this for me, it verifies something I believe my whole life. An idea has to be good

1:17.6

for everyone to be a good idea. That's all. You can't have a moral thought, oh, but it's only

1:25.2

relevant to society X or people X. The human condition is the human condition. Cultures are relative,

1:33.1

that's fine. I have no issue with that. This country loves this music, this country loves this

1:38.1

food, this country loves this way of dressing, this country has a Ciesta or a rest time in the middle

1:45.0

of the day and eats later at night. None of that matters to me. But when it comes to the ultimate

1:51.5

questions of life and good and evil and right and wrong, it's got to be universal. Okay. So I want to

1:58.8

return in my opening comments today before I take your questions. I want to return to what I have

2:06.0

always known was a major dividing line in the way people look at society. If I could ask people

2:14.2

one question before finding out what they think about 10 different issues, I wouldn't even ask them

2:23.8

first, do you believe in God? Believe it or not? As much as I believe that is a very significant issue.

2:31.6

By the way, this is what I should talk about because do you believe in God doesn't mean anything.

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