Welcome guys and gals. I'm Connor Beaton and today we're going to be talking about why it's not a political issue, it's a moral issue.

Now if you've been listening to this podcast for a while, following me on Instagram or are tuned into the Mantox community that's on Facebook, you'll probably know by now that I

usually don't talk about politics because everyone talks about politics and they're everywhere

and damn, it can get tiring. It can really be exhausting with the bombardment of political

conversations that happen in the media right now,

that are happening at the dinner table, that are happening on contents, on shows like this,

celebrities and influencers making political statements.

And so I am less interested in making some sort of political statement of my

personal opinion of where I stand from a left or right perspective and more of looking to

have a quick conversation today about how some of the stuff that is going on right now in the political landscape

aren't actually political issues.

They are being branded as political issues, but the issues that we're facing are moral ones,

and there's a big distinction.

And one of the main issues with this is that a lot of people don't necessarily know how to address moral problems.

So I'm going to get into that in a second.

And I'll give you some examples.

But the reason why I don't normally talk about politics is, you know, when I first started Man Talks, we had really open conversations about everything.

Absolutely no subject was off limits in the Mantox community on Facebook.

After Trump got elected, however, there was this really interesting thing where politics would come up in the group.

And the conversation would immediately move from being respectful

to something that was disrespectful there was name calling you know people are acting like

teenagers uh they're not listening to one another slamming each other you know there's shitty

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