Hi everybody, this is Scott Sadd. It's been a while since I last posted a sad truth clip where I just

speak directly into the camera. I've been traveling the past two weeks. Two weeks ago, I was in

Austin doing the Joe Robbins show. I think it was my 11th appearance. It was wonderful. Please check it out if you

haven't done so already. And then I visited the University of Austin where I gave a lecture and met

all the people. Fantastic university. Had a great time there. And then this past week, I was in

South Carolina and Florida, where I had some various meetings and gave

three different talks under my responsibilities as a global ambassador of Northwood University.

That was also wonderful. Now I'm back home for a couple of

weeks before my next trip. But today what I wanted to talk to you about is this movie that I

watched last night, titled Beautiful Boy, where it's apparently a true story of the devastation that is reaped on a family when you have

one of the family members in the throes of drug addiction and at one point the dad in the movie

decides you know after trying all that he could to help his son, you can tell

that, of course, he loved his son, you know, immeasurably, but that he had to make the very

tough decision of letting go, of no longer, you know, enabling the son because whenever the son needed money or whatever

it is that he needed to try to get out of his latest, you know, drug-fueled jam,

then, of course, he could rely on the parent to rescue him.

And so that got me thinking about something that I've discussed with you guys on

several occasions, and of course, most notably in the parasitic mind, where I talk about the

tension between deontological and consequentialist ethics, deontological ethics being, you know, an absolute statement, right? It is

never okay to lie would be a deenthalological statement. It is okay to lie if you wish to spare

someone's feelings would be a consequentialist statement. And so in the case of walking away from a child or a family member whom you know that if

you keep supporting them, they might bring the entire family down, right? Like this, in this particular

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