The Matt Walsh Show - November 27, 2018


Ep. 150 - Primitives Protected Their Border. Why Can't We？


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00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left defends primitive tribesmen who kill intruders, but then
00:00:04.840 says that we can't use any physical means to defend our country against intruders. How is
00:00:09.560 that consistent? Also, a scientist has created a genetically modified baby. Is that ethical? And
00:00:15.580 finally, is it a waste of money to explore Mars? Hint, the answer is no. We'll talk about all that
00:00:21.020 coming up on the Matt Wall Show. So I had a thought. I do have those on occasion. It doesn't
00:00:30.940 happen very often, but I do have them. We've been talking over the last few days about this
00:00:35.340 story of the Sentinelese in India. They're the Stone Age tribe on an island off the coast of
00:00:41.960 India, uncontacted, which means the government, the Indian government has set up a force field
00:00:47.060 around them and made it illegal for anyone to go and let them know that the rest of human
00:00:51.440 civilization exists. So as you heard, they murdered a missionary who tried to come and speak to them
00:00:57.420 last week. They shot him full of arrows, then put a rope around his neck and dragged him until he died.
00:01:03.740 Now the government is trying to recover the body of this poor guy, but the tribesmen won't let anyone
00:01:10.940 get close to the island to just get the guy's body back. And the thing is, the missionary is not the
00:01:18.500 first person that these people have murdered. They also killed two fishermen in 2006 who accidentally
00:01:24.740 drifted close to the island. Now these men had no intention of invading the island. They weren't
00:01:29.880 trying to do anything. They just drifted close to the island and they were shot full of arrows and
00:01:34.800 murdered. Now I have to depart from what is apparently the majority opinion about these cases.
00:01:45.080 I actually don't think it's okay for anyone to commit murder, even if you're in a primitive tribe.
00:01:52.440 I'm not in favor of murder for anyone. I don't think anyone should be able to do it. I don't care if
00:01:58.880 you live in a tribe, if you live in a city. I think murder is wrong for everybody. That's
00:02:04.640 just me. They are killing innocent people. Now if you were to say, well, the missionary,
00:02:10.600 he knew what he was getting into and he, I still don't think it's okay to kill him. I mean,
00:02:15.920 I don't think that's okay. But what about the fishermen? They just drifted close to the island.
00:02:21.760 So they can be murdered too? Again, call me crazy. I just, I don't think it's cool. I'm not okay
00:02:30.960 with murder. I just personally, but that's not my point. What's interesting is the timing of this
00:02:41.020 story. The timing of the story highlights a really curious contrast and I want to call attention to
00:02:47.260 it because as this drama has unfolded in India with this tribe, you have also the migrant caravan down
00:02:54.060 on the Southern border and you have our government using physical means, um, though non-lethal, but
00:03:00.240 using physical means to repel people who are trying to invade our country illegally. Now here's where the
00:03:07.680 interesting contrast comes into play because the people who say it's perfectly justified for this
00:03:14.500 tribe to kill anyone who comes to their Island at all, those people, they are the same ones in many
00:03:21.880 cases who say that it's some kind of great evil. If we physically prevent illegal immigrants from
00:03:27.660 coming to our country. Now I want you to really think about that. The Sentinelese can shoot you full
00:03:34.400 of arrows, put a rope around your neck, murder you. If you so much as drift close to their Island,
00:03:41.280 but we're not allowed to take any physical measures whatsoever to deal with the people who come
00:03:47.520 illegally to our country. That that's the position that a large number of people have taken. And it
00:03:54.080 just makes no sense. The response to, to this point usually goes something like this. Someone will say,
00:04:01.360 well, uh, they're a primitive tribe and they don't know any better. Uh, are you saying that we should
00:04:07.020 be held to the same standard as a primitive tribe? Shouldn't we be held to a higher standard? Well, uh,
00:04:13.100 well, first of all, no, I'm not, I'm not saying that we should be, uh, that we should hold ourselves
00:04:18.960 to that standard because they murder people who come close to them. I'm not saying that we should
00:04:24.180 kill illegal immigrants. I'm not advocating that. I don't think anyone is advocating that.
00:04:28.360 And I'm especially not saying that we should kill people who come to our country just to visit,
00:04:33.660 which is what, um, which is what the Sentinelese do. So no, I'm not talking about the same standard,
00:04:40.520 but isn't this, this is the bigotry of low expectations on steroids.
00:04:49.800 You are setting the bar extremely high for us. Okay. You're saying that we should be
00:04:56.180 so peaceful and so enlightened and so progressive and so welcoming, um, that we can't even use any
00:05:04.440 physical means at all, even non-lethal means to deal with whole hordes of people who are trying to
00:05:11.920 bum rush our border. So that's what you're saying for us. But then you're putting the bar so low for
00:05:20.360 these tribesmen. You're, you're putting the bar so low that it's under the earth. You're,
00:05:24.140 you're burying the bar under the earth and you're saying, well, for them, they can murder whoever they
00:05:29.500 want. You know, it just seems like this is, this is the height of racism. That's what the bigotry of
00:05:40.060 low expectations is. And usually the bigotry of low expectations is usually it's, it's a, it is a form
00:05:45.840 of bigotry normally found among liberal white people where in an attempt to be enlightened,
00:05:53.100 in an attempt to be progressive and multicultural, they'll say, uh, they'll, they'll say, well,
00:05:59.140 yeah, you know, we, we hold ourselves to a certain standard, but, you know, pointing off to some
00:06:04.580 other race or culture, well, we can't expect them to act the same way because, you know, we can't
00:06:09.400 expect that of them. That's racism. That is horrible racism. And in the case of these primitive tribe
00:06:19.160 people, you're basically treating them like animals. You may as well compare them to a bear
00:06:25.060 or mauling a camper, uh, in the forest somewhere. Well, they don't know any better. This is, this just,
00:06:30.680 this is just what they do. They don't know any better. It that's again, that is, that is incredibly
00:06:38.600 racist in an effort to have these enlightened attitudes towards these people. You are dehumanizing
00:06:45.920 them. You are holding them to no standard whatsoever. You're saying that even don't murder is too high
00:06:52.900 of a bar for them to get over. And I find that extremely racist. And what is this assumption?
00:07:00.260 I know people have said, well, they don't, you know, they, someone's coming to their Island and
00:07:04.940 they don't know why the person's coming. So what else are they supposed to do? Well, for anyone else
00:07:11.380 on earth, we would say, yeah, look, if someone comes to your property or, uh, you know, comes to
00:07:15.960 your house and that might make you a little bit wary. Um, but you can't just kill them right away,
00:07:22.100 especially if they, if they, if they don't appear to be threatening, if they don't have a weapon or
00:07:25.580 anything, uh, killing them shouldn't be the first thing you do. If they're walking up your, if you
00:07:31.980 see somebody walking up your, uh, your, you know, the, the path to your front door, you can't just
00:07:38.240 murder them right away. And we expect everyone to kind of know that because we expect everyone to
00:07:45.120 have to, to, to have a certain, to value human life and to understand that human life is valuable.
00:07:49.520 And so you can't just go around killing people the drop of a hat. We, here's the thing. We expect
00:07:56.840 everyone to intuitively, not, not just because they've been told by the government, we expect
00:08:01.620 everyone to intuitively know that you can't just go around killing people. Um, yet for these,
00:08:08.680 this primitive tribe, what we're saying is no, well, they have no knowledge of that. Well,
00:08:12.320 how do you know they have no knowledge of that? They're human beings. How do you know that they
00:08:16.400 have no concept of that? It's wrong to just go kill people. And, and to make that assumption
00:08:23.720 is so racist. I just, it seems because I am not racist, I hold these people to the same standard.
00:08:33.780 I would hold anyone else too. And, um, so if someone drifts close to your Island, you shouldn't
00:08:38.920 kill them. It's not okay to kill them. It's just not, but, um, what, what's the principle here?
00:08:47.120 Okay. If, if we're not being racist and yet we're still basically defending the way the North
00:08:54.240 center leaves deal with, uh, with so-called intruders, if we're not being racist, then there
00:09:01.380 has to be some principle. And the principle that I, that I, that I hear from people is, well,
00:09:05.140 they have a right to defend their country, even though the Island is not their country,
00:09:09.500 it's actually belongs to India, but in any case, um, they have a right to defend their land and
00:09:14.660 their home and it's illegal to go there anyway. So, you know, that's the principle. These are broad
00:09:19.860 statements. These are statements of principle, a right to defend their home against evaders.
00:09:25.340 That's a principle. So if that's the principle, why shouldn't we fall under the same principle?
00:09:31.560 Why should we be exempt? If they have a right to defend their home against invaders, why don't we?
00:09:38.720 And I'm not saying that we defend it by using lethal force. I'm not, I'm not saying that at all,
00:09:42.820 but if they can use lethal force, can't we use non-lethal force at least?
00:09:51.040 Um, so when you say they have a right to defend their home, I agree. I don't think,
00:09:56.660 I don't agree with the murdering personally. I may be the only person in the country apparently
00:10:00.600 feels this way, but I, I don't agree with the murdering part, but I agree in principle with
00:10:05.440 defending your home and your country. And guess what? We have the same right.
00:10:13.340 So it just, I, if you're going to defend the way that these tribesmen deal with anyone who even
00:10:23.800 comes close to appearing that they might invade or intrude or whatever, if you're going to defend that
00:10:28.820 yet tell us, yet tell us, yet tell the American government that, that, that we're wrong for
00:10:34.380 defending our borders, I cannot think of any explanation for that dichotomy other than racism
00:10:41.840 on your part. Um, if it's not racism, then there should be certain basic principles that we all,
00:10:53.140 you know, uh, that apply to all of us. And if the principle is you can defend your home,
00:10:58.540 defend your country, well then you shouldn't have any problem with the way that the government is
00:11:02.560 defending our home in our country down on the Southern border. All right. Um, I wanted to make
00:11:09.320 mention of this story, uh, reading from the report in the daily wire, according to a Stanford educated
00:11:16.100 Chinese researcher, the first ever genetically edited babies, twin girls whom, um, he altered to be
00:11:21.800 more resistant to HIV infection. We're born this month month in action that has been condemned as
00:11:27.400 unethical by some of his fellow scientists in an associated press report, uh, published Monday.
00:11:36.620 The scientist said that he helped design the world's first genetically altered babies, um, who were born
00:11:44.780 this month. I'm trying to get to the, okay. So the AP provides some more details on the process.
00:11:49.900 Um, the gene editing occurred during IVF or lab dish fertilization. First sperm was washed quote
00:11:58.020 unquote to separate it from semen, the fluid where HIV can lurk. A single sperm was placed into a single
00:12:04.120 egg to create an embryo. Then the gene editing tool was added. When the embryos were three to five days
00:12:10.500 old, a few cells were removed and checked for editing. Uh, couples could choose whether to use edited
00:12:15.660 or unedited embryos for pregnancy attempts. In all 16 of 22 embryos were edited and 11 embryos were used
00:12:22.980 in six implant attempts before the twin pregnancy was achieved. All right. Um, hopefully you followed
00:12:30.680 all that and you understand how that works because I totally understand it, of course.
00:12:35.300 So there's a lot of unknown about this. And, um, many scientists have pointed out that we don't really
00:12:41.240 know the long-term effects. We don't know what effect this might have on the kids. Um, we don't
00:12:47.360 even know if this attempt will be successful in terms of preventing HIV. Um, so there's a lot that
00:12:54.640 that's, that's unknown. Uh, this was essentially, well, not essentially, this was human experimentation.
00:13:02.380 This scientist was experimenting on these human embryos. And so these, this, these twin babies are
00:13:08.940 like Guinea pigs basically. And what's so worrisome is that it seems to open Pandora's box to lead to
00:13:15.660 a kind of Gattaca situation where babies can be designed to suit the specifications of the parents.
00:13:22.440 Now, um, some people will look at this kind of stuff and they'll say, well, so what, what's wrong with
00:13:29.620 that? Why not experiment and tinker and create babies that are perfected by science? Well, I think
00:13:38.320 there are a lot of ethical concerns here. Um, there, there's a lot wrong, but I'll point to just one
00:13:43.000 thing. This is the commodification of human life. We are treating human life like a product, like,
00:13:52.380 like an item, a thing to be possessed. Um, and we're giving ourselves and we're giving science
00:14:01.940 a certain level of control over human life that we shouldn't have. Now you and I, we were born
00:14:09.540 naturally, right? We, we were born as, as the sorts of people that God or nature, if you like
00:14:16.660 wanted or intended. But with this kind of technology, if it continues to expand and you see where it's
00:14:23.600 leading, people are going to be born as the sorts of people that other people wanted or intended
00:14:29.760 them to be. So this seems among many other things, and we, you know, the fact that we don't know the
00:14:35.760 long-term effects and all that kind of stuff. Um, but that's bad enough, but this seems to remove
00:14:41.480 agency. It removes freedom from, from a person kind of from the very get-go take, I mean, even
00:14:48.620 something like engineering, uh, a certain eye color or, or hair color, uh, for a child, which is,
00:14:54.880 which is a, which is an ability that science already has. But even that as innocuous as it
00:15:02.160 seems, I think is wrong is, is really wrong. Because if you think about it, like I have brown
00:15:09.740 hair and I have brown eyes, right? This is how I was naturally born. No human being picked it out
00:15:16.580 for me. It's, it's just, this is just me. This is who I am. This is just how it ended up. I would not
00:15:23.100 want to have brown hair because my parents wanted me to have brown hair.
00:15:30.960 Imagine that. Imagine having some physical feature, any physical feature that is only there
00:15:37.500 because it's what your parents wanted. For your whole life, you're going to have this physical
00:15:43.440 feature. You're going to look a certain way because it's what your parents preferred. But why should your
00:15:50.540 parents have any say over that at all? You're a person, you're a human being, you're not a piece
00:15:55.580 of furniture. Why should your parents have it? Why should they, first of all, why would a parent
00:16:00.700 have a preference on what eye color their child is? Um, so you see already the parents that engage in
00:16:08.060 this kind of thing, they have, they have entirely the wrong attitude about parenting. They, they,
00:16:12.800 they see their kids as accessories to their life. Um, the way, the same way that they would see a piece
00:16:21.260 of furniture or whatever, like that you have a preference of what kind of color it is and all
00:16:24.640 this, all this sort of stuff. But in any case, that's a human being. Why should it be up to your
00:16:30.980 parents? Why should, why should I have a certain physical feature? Because it's what my parents
00:16:39.880 preferred is the question. And I think that's where this is heading. And, um, that's why it's wrong
00:16:47.060 among all the other problems. But the, the further that we march with this technology, the more we get
00:16:55.160 to a point where, you know, babies are just, as I said, they're just kind of accessories. They're
00:17:01.800 just, they, they are items, um, that parents own and can even design to meet their own personal
00:17:10.100 specifications. I find that pretty horrific, honestly. Now, um, before we wrap up, I wanted to
00:17:16.400 talk about some positive scientific news yesterday. Hopefully you were following this, the Mars
00:17:23.200 InSight spacecraft, um, unmanned, obviously landed on Mars. And this is pretty incredible. Just,
00:17:30.020 just, just imagine building something that can fly off this planet and travel, whatever it is.
00:17:36.000 I think it's a hundred million miles or so. Well, the, the, the distance from here to Mars fluctuates
00:17:41.000 quite a bit, but, uh, so I'm not sure how far this thing traveled, but you know, a hundred million
00:17:44.840 miles. Imagine building something that can take off of the, of our planet, travel a hundred million
00:17:50.520 miles to another planet, land itself, and then spend years roaming around the surface and studying
00:17:56.300 it. It's an absolutely remarkable scientific accomplishment. And I just want to say this.
00:18:02.660 Um, yesterday I saw some people on Twitter and on social media complaining that, well, this is,
00:18:10.220 this is a huge waste of money. You know, we're wasting money by, by going to Mars and, and, uh,
00:18:15.880 and all of that. What a, what a dreary and dull and pitiful outlook on life that you would consider
00:18:23.800 that a waste of money. We, we are exploring and discovering and studying and, and going into space
00:18:32.600 that that's what we should be doing at human beings. That's one of the things that makes us human
00:18:37.500 is this drive to explore and discover. And humans have been doing that from the very beginning.
00:18:43.000 And, and, and all along, while you've had people who are, who are exploring and discovering and
00:18:50.860 innovating, you've also always had the dull kinds of people who sit off on the sidelines and fold their
00:18:57.020 arms and say, Oh, it's too expensive. It's to this, it's to that. Well, it's a really good thing that
00:19:03.120 those voices are never listened to because if it were up to them, you know, we never would have
00:19:08.080 achieved any of this. So I absolutely think it's, it's worth the money. Um, you know, not everything
00:19:16.080 has to have an immediate practical benefit. Yeah. It's not like you could say, well, what are we going
00:19:22.800 to do with the information? I don't know. What do you mean? What are we going to do with the
00:19:25.940 information that we get? We're just, we're going to expand our knowledge. We're going to know more
00:19:30.840 things. Isn't that, isn't that enough to, to expand our knowledge and to know more about the
00:19:36.960 solar system and the universe? Isn't that enough? I mean, do you need it? Does, does every piece of
00:19:41.080 knowledge that we gain, does it have to have some practical utilitarian use in your everyday life
00:19:46.780 and being a more knowledgeable and well-rounded person? Isn't that a practical thing in and of
00:19:51.900 itself? So I think it's wonderful. I'm a, I'm a huge fan of this. And, um, from what I, from what
00:20:00.220 I've read, NASA's plan is to, uh, is to get us to Mars, to get a human on Mars sometime in the 2030s.
00:20:07.020 And, uh, I, I fully support it. I think it's, I think it's worth every penny that we spend on it.
00:20:13.580 And I very rarely say that about things that the government does. I'll just tell you that.
00:20:18.080 All right. We'll leave it there. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening, everybody. Godspeed.