Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Philosopher Stefan Molyneux tells a caller to screw self-discipline in this call-in show, arguing that her guilt-driven push to exercise and follow through is just self-attack from her mother's abuse and neglect. He pushes digging out the real root of the resistance instead of bullying herself into habits that never stick.

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Philosopher Stefan Molyneux takes on the claim that there is no such thing as truth and shows how that idea falls apart under its own weight. He answers listener questions on natural selection, envy of talent, marriage as a bond for children, human nature outside of force, just war and free speech under surveillance.

Questions:

Why do humans hate Natural Selection?
It is clearly the most obvious structure of the designer...

Treating the institution of marriage as a sort of clown car with way too many, no longer strictly related to the idea, underlying concepts crammed in, how would you strip it down to its bare minimum?

Listened to your Sunday morning chat. You stated most people are not virtuous, vapid and essentially non thinking individualistically. I’m a believer in Anarchism, and agree with you most people are this way, but wouldn’t this make anarchy not likely? I’m starting to think most people want to be slaves.

Is there any validity to the concept of a "just war"? What are the requirements?

I wonder how right was Kaczynski, how likely that with advances in tech society will still be free?
E.g. with all cameras, AI, social engineering, and such stuff.

Secular reasons not to cheat on your wife/ husband.

Would love to hear your thoughts on fear.

The truth about Charlie Kirk

What is the distinction between UPB and Habermas and Apels performative contradiction argument?

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Philosopher Stefan Molyneux talks about how to not get gaslit by staying open to real criticism and evidence from the people around you. He digs into a caller's childhood with a verbally abusive father and a mother who enabled it then later pretended not to understand the harm, while also questioning the family's choices with two young kids.

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Philosopher Stefan Molyneux shows how to get things done by facing conflict head-on and telling the truth instead of avoiding it. He talks with a sister about her brother’s separation from a controlling wife and with a software developer who wants to lead as a CTO but keeps putting approval ahead of his own needs and mission.

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Philosopher Stefan Molyneux talks with a caller stuck in his late 20s after his parents split at 13, leaving him bullied, overweight, self-harming, and numbed by porn and weed. He pushes the man to stop hiding and tell his parents the straight truth about their neglect so he can drop the shame and get moving on work and independence.

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