Ep. 325 - The Deranged And Evil Overpopulation Myth
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I talk about CNN's climate change town hall featuring all of the Democratic presidential hopefuls, and why I don't like them. I also talk about Bernie Sanders, Andrew Yang, and the future of the planet.
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Okay, so CNN had, what was it, a seven hour, eight hour, seven hour, seven hour climate change
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town hall yesterday with all the different Democratic nominees. I didn't watch a single
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minute of it because I don't hate myself personally. The idea of watching seven hours
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of that just is inhumane. I mean, you could argue that CNN has violated all of our
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protections against cruel and unusual punishment just by putting that on the air.
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And speaking of which, and again, I don't know, and this is a question for you if you watched it,
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because as I said, I didn't, but was, they had a live studio audience, right, for the seven hour
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thing. Was it the same audience for those seven hours? Was it actually the same collection of
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people who sat there for seven hours watching as one Democratic nominee after another got up there
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and talked about climate change? I just, I can't imagine that. And if that's the case,
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where did they get these people? Were they all on work release from the local prison? Were they all,
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you know, sadomasochists? Was this some sort of weird, uh, sexual fetish thing for them? I, I just,
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I can't, I don't get it. I can't possibly understand it. Um, anyway, so I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna go
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through and break down everything that was said. I think that'd be pointless. Uh, though there were a
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couple of notable moments, I think, looking at, uh, based on, on, on the replay. Um, here's,
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here's maybe my, my favorite of all the, of, of the clips I've seen of it. This is probably my,
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my favorite moment, uh, from, and this is from Corey, Corey Booker. Watch this.
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So my plan says that we need to be our, our, uh, at a zero carbon electric, electricity by 2030.
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That's, that's 10 years from the time that I will win the presidency of the United States of America.
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Poor old Corey, poor, poor Booker. Uh, he says he's going to be president and the audience treats
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it as a punchline. They actually laughed at him when he said he's going to be president.
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I swear, I'm really starting to feel sorry for Corey Booker. And this has been the weirdest thing
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for me throughout this campaign. It's one of the reasons why I kind of, I really resent, uh, this
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political season because I found myself actually at various points, kind of feeling sorry for Corey
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Booker, uh, Joe Biden, even Eric Swalwell at different points. I've even felt sorry for Beto
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sometimes. Now I know they don't deserve my pity, but I just can't help it.
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I'm, I'm, I'm a, I'm a kind and sensitive guy. What can I say? That is, those are my most
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prominent personality traits, according to no one. What I really want to discuss, um,
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uh, what I want to focus on is one moment involving Bernie Sanders, but actually before we get there,
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um, this here's, here's one, here's one thing with Andrew Yang, uh, that I wanted to talk about
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briefly. Watch, watch this. So, so what's the answer? Are we all, are we all going to have to
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drive electric cars? Um, we are all going to love driving our electric cars. Will we have to drive
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electric cars? Well, there will, there'll still be some legacy gas guzzlers on the road for quite
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some time because this is not a country where you're going to like take someone's, you know,
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like clunker away from them, but you are going to offer to buy the clunker back and help them
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upgrade. So Andrew Yang wants the government to buy everybody's car. And that's on top of the,
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what is it? A thousand bucks a month we're going to get from the government under Yang's plan. So
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it appears that Yang believes that the government has literally an infinite supply of money. And he
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also appears to believe that inflation is a myth. It doesn't exist because you could just give people
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money, buy their cars. It's not going to have any inflationary impact on the economy. Um, I, I just,
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I, these are not serious proposals from a serious person. I just, I don't understand why people love
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this guy so much. Speaking of unserious people, um, but in this case, an unserious person with
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seriously evil ideas, here is a terrifying exchange involving Bernie Sanders at the town hall last night.
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Good evening. Human population growth has more than doubled in the past 50 years.
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The planet cannot sustain this growth. I realize this is a poisonous topic for politicians, but it's
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crucial to face empowering women and educating everyone on the need to curb population growth
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seems a reasonable campaign to enact. Would you be courageous enough to discuss this issue and make
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it a key feature of a plan to address climate catastrophe? Well, Martha, the answer is yes.
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And the answer has everything to do with the fact that women in the United States of America,
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by the way, have a right to control their own bodies and make reproductive decisions.
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And the Mexico city agreement, which denies American aid to those organizations around the world
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that are, uh, that allow women to have abortions or even get involved, uh, in birth control to me is
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totally absurd. So I think especially in poor countries around the world, uh, where women do not
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necessarily want to have large numbers of babies and where they can have the opportunity through birth
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control to control the number of kids they have something I very, very strongly support.
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Let's, let's just be clear about what, what happened there. The question was whether Bernie
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would support abortion as a means to reduce the population and save the planet. And he said that he
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would. Okay. Now the word abortion was never used. And so you're going to hear, in fact, I've already
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heard some people try to rationalize this by saying, well, no, he was talking about birth control,
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not abortion. Yeah, he did. He did mention birth control also, which he lumps in with abortion
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because abortion is a form of birth control in Bernie Sanders's mind. But he was also referring
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explicitly to abortion. That's what the whole bit about women could do what they want with their
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bodies. That's abortion. Okay. That's that always refers to where that's not birth control because
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there isn't anybody out there who, despite what you hear from the left, there isn't anyone out there
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who is trying to make birth control illegal or whatever. That's, that's not an argument that
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anyone's having. So there's no one saying that women shouldn't have the right to use birth control.
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Uh, there are people saying that women shouldn't have the right to kill their babies. And so when
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someone says is women have the right to, they're talking about abortion. And so that's what he wants to
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do. Um, he, he is, this is Bernie Sanders supporting eugenics explicitly plain and simple.
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Now this of course is not surprising. It's not new. Eugenics has been around for over a hundred years.
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As it happens, Bernie Sanders has also been around for over a hundred years, probably not a coincidence.
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And American leftists have supported eugenics in some form or another using direct or indirect rhetoric
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for that entire time. In fact, the whole idea of abortion support for abortion rests inherently
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on a eugenics mentality. It rests on the commodification of human life. That is seeing human life,
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judging the worth of human life, according to its usefulness to society, saying that human life has
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subjective worth determined by other people determined by society as a whole, based on how useful
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or, or, or, or unuseful that human life is to society. All pro-abortion people see human life this
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way. They all do. They must in order to be pro-abortion. So it's not a big leap. It's not a leap at all,
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actually, to go from that to let's kill babies because there are too many people on earth.
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So we shouldn't be shocked by this. Um, and by the way, every pro-abortion person agrees with what
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Bernie Sanders just said, even if they won't admit it out loud, they all agree. They all do.
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Of course, meanwhile, on this overpopulation idea, it should be stipulated that overpopulation is
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mythological. Okay. It's not real. The world is not running out of room or running out of resources.
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That is a myth. It is a fable told, especially by people who want to justify the genocide of the
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unborn. We could, just to give you an idea, I mean, the earth is, is a very, very big place.
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Okay. On an astronomical level, it's, it's not, it's, it's not a very big planet. There are a lot
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of bigger planets out there, but it is still a, it's, as far as we're concerned from our perspective,
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it is a very, very big planet. You could take, we've got what, 7 billion people on earth. Now
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you could take them all and fit them all in the state of Texas. Every single person on earth could
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fit into the state of Texas with their own townhouses and their own nice little postage
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stamp yards with a picket fence and everything. Um, you could now, uh, there wouldn't be a lot of room
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and, and, and, you know, a, a factoid like that can be a little deceptive in that, you know,
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it is also true that much of the surface area of the earth is not, cannot be inhabited. It's not
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habitable, um, habitable, habitable. There we go. It's not habitable. Uh, you know, Antarctica for
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instance. But the fact remains that, um, there is a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of habitable area on
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earth where, where nobody currently lives and it will be that way indefinitely. Okay. So we've got
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a lot of space and we also have enough food for everybody. There's enough resources. There's
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enough food. There's enough space. Anyone telling you otherwise is simply lying or they're mistaken.
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Um, and now we, we, we do have a problem and I hesitate to use this word because of the implications
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of it, but we do have a problem with the distribution of the food and the space in that
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there's a lot, there are some people on earth who have a lot of food and waste it and a lot of space
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and waste it. And then there are some people who have not enough food and they starve and they don't
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have enough space. Okay. We know that. And when I say distribution, I'm not saying that we need some
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big government entity to just to redistribute it. That's not what I'm saying, but it is,
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there is a disproportionate, it is disproportionate in the way this stuff is, is allotted. That's true.
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But that's not because there are too many people. And the way that I know that is that, you know,
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back when there were a billion people on earth or a hundred million or 10 million, there were still
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a lot of people, probably proportionally more than there are today who were starving and were living
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in filth and were living in crowded environments. And that's back when there were, you know, there
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was a quarter of the number of people on earth or less than that. So it's not a matter of there
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being too many people. That's not the problem. The solution then is to talk about how to address
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the issues of poverty and, and, you know, and all of that. And that's a good thing to talk about.
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Now, we could talk, we can have that discussion. Bernie's solution is to just kill them, is to say,
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well, there, there are people on earth who are poor, poor families. And so let's just start killing
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them off, killing their children anyway. And that leads me to something else. This is kind of
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interesting. Have you noticed, I'm sure you have, that the people who advocate reducing the population
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to save the planet always want to start by killing babies. Have you noticed that?
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Which that, that does not really seem like the most logical place to start.
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But poor babies, especially, we should, we should mention. So they say, there's too many people on
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earth. We got to start getting rid of people. Um, not just let's prevent more people from being
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conceived, but we have to actually get rid of some people who have already been conceived. And so the
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people who say that say, well, let's begin with the, with the babies, especially poor babies.
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They never seem to see themselves as members of the surplus population in need of extermination.
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What a strange coincidence that is. I mean, if you really, if you really think the world is
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overpopulated and the solution is to kill people, you could contribute to the solution in a more direct
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way. Now I'm not advocating, I'm not advocating suicide. I'm not advocating that people who believe
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an overpopulation, go out and commit mass suicide. I'm not, I don't think they should. I'm just saying
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that maybe stop trying to throw babies into the fire. If you're not willing to go there yourself.
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Um, if there is a surplus population, if that's really a thing where there are too many people,
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well, how do you know you're not part of the surplus? And it would seem like, again, if that's true,
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the most direct solution would be for you to, uh, at least make sure that you're not part of the
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problem. And also, you know, the, the word consent is supposed to be very meaningful these days.
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Well, the babies don't consent to, you might say that there's overpopulation. We don't have room
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for them. The babies aren't, don't consent to, to, you know, to being killed. You, you can consent to
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it. So it just, it just seems to me that that would be the most direct solution. If you really think
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that there's a problem of that sort, think about, think about Bernie Sanders for, for, for a second
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here specifically. Now it's morally atrocious for anyone to get up there and advocate for killing
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babies in order to curb population growth. So for anyone to do that is, is disgusting and evil and
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everything, but it's all the more grotesque and cowardly, uh, and just egregious to have an elderly
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man pushing 80 years old, getting up there and saying that Bernie Sanders is, he, he, he, he doesn't have
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that much time left. He's most people, the average life expectancy for a man is like, I think it's 84
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or it might be less than that. Most people don't make it to 90. Few people do. You're almost definitely
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not making it to a hundred. The most likely scenario is that Bernie Sanders is dead anyway, within 10 years
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because of his age. That's just, that's, that's what the statistics tell us.
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And as he continues to age, he's going to become more and more of a burden on people around. He's
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going to become less and less able to contribute to society and more and more of a burden to, uh, to,
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to society and to his family and so on. That's, that's the trajectory that we all follow if we,
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if we live long enough. So again, if you really have this utilitarian materialistic view of human
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life, and if you really think that, well, look, you know, babies, uh, we don't need them. There,
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there, there's, there's too many people. If that's really how you see it. And if that's really how we're
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judging human life. And so now we have to start getting rid of surplus people. It would almost seem
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like it would make more sense to begin with people on the other end of the life spectrum
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because yeah, with, with babies, uh, it's true that when they're born for a time, they're going to
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not be able to contribute. They're going to be, uh, for lack of a better term, a burden on, on,
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on their parents, but that's not going to last forever. In theory, eventually they're going to go on
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and be on their own and contribute to society. And they've got all the potential in the world.
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They could go on and cure cancer or, or, or they could do anything. Right. But if you're 80 years
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old, then whatever potential you had is probably mostly been, uh, realized or not realized. And,
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uh, you're, you're going more into the phase of being a burden and you're never going to come out of
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that phase. So it just seems to me, if, if this is what we're doing, if we're getting rid of surplus
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people, it seems like we should start with adults and not just older adults, even someone like,
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you know, me, I'm 33 years old. Um, I, I, if there was any chance that I was going to cure cancer,
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it's, I I've gone in a different direction. I've done this instead. Maybe I could have cured cancer,
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but I decided to do this instead. So I'm probably never going to cure cancer. Um, you know, I'm
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probably never going to contribute that much to society. I mean, this is probably the most I'm
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going to do. And so, you know, Hey, maybe, maybe, maybe I get tossed on the scrap heap too. I don't
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know. It's just to begin with babies makes no sense to me, even from the, uh, from the,
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as I said, utilitarian materialistic viewpoint of, of, uh, of, of liberals. Or maybe, you know,
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maybe this whole line of thinking is just horrifically deranged and wrong. And maybe
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we shouldn't be looking at human life this way, no matter how old or young, uh, a person happens to
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be. Okay. Maybe your value and worth is not derived based on how useful you are to other people or what
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society can do with you or, or how many people there already are on earth or, or whatever else.
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And maybe even if you are a, uh, you know, a quote unquote burden to other people, if you have to be
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taken care of, maybe that doesn't detract from your worth at all in any sense. Maybe that's the way to
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look at it. That's my vote. I vote for that. I think that's how we should look at it. But if we
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are going to look at it that way, we can't just apply it to ourselves. I can't just say, well, no,
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I mean, yeah, everybody else, maybe there, they can be surplus population. We don't need them,
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but me, no, I'm, I'm infinitely valuable and worthy. That doesn't make any sense. If, if,
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if nobody else is that I'm not either, but if I am, then everybody is. And so I think as a society,
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we just have to decide, uh, what kind of society we want to be because we're, we were trying to
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play both. We've been trying to play both sides of the fence for a while now, where on one hand,
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what do we tell kids? We say, oh, you're, you're special. You're wonderful. It doesn't matter how
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anyone thinks of you or what they say about you. You're a wonderful, special, uh, infinitely valuable
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person. On one hand, we say that on the other hand, uh, those very same kids, when they were in
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the womb, we said they're expendable. We can exterminate them, kill them, slaughter them, dismember
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them, throw them in the dumpster. Can't have it both ways. Which way is it going to be?
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I vote for let's treat all life as valuable and infinitely worthy. Um, but if you want to go the
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other way and say, fine, let's just live in a utilitarian materialistic eugenics, uh, you know,
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driven hellscape, if that's what you want to do. Okay. But I think what you're going to find is that
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it's not just going to be the babies who end up on the scrap heap.
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All right. Um, this was, this was kind of funny. I just, I wanted to mention this. There was,
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uh, I think every, every week we have to do one of these crazy feminists on Twitter updates. And so
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a crazy feminist on Twitter, uh, sent out a viral tweet. It's getting a lot of reaction. Uh, this
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woman's name is Charlotte. And here's what she said. She says, uh, and, and, and I'm, by the way,
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I'm 98% sure this is not satire or parody. I'm 98% sure she's being sincere, although she has blocked
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me now. So I can't really investigate too much, but here's what she said. Um, men, before you tell a
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joke slash give advice, plat slash pay a compliment, I need you to ask yourself three questions.
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One, was I invited to speak to will what I'm about to say be welcome three. Am I speaking to enrich this
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person or am I speaking just to make myself seen? Was I invite here? Here, this is what she men. This
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is what Charlotte woman named Charlotte, a feminist on Twitter. This is what she needs us to do. She needs
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it. Okay. We have been given our instructions. And so anytime you want to speak to anyone,
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you have to first, first, uh, uh, wait for an invitation. I don't know. Can we ask for the
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invitation? Are we allowed to say, may I speak? But then if to say that we're all, we are already
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speaking without an invitation. So I guess we have to just stand there silently until a woman turns to
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us and says, you are now invited to speak. You have 25 seconds. Go. Um, of course it's useless to say
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that Charlotte is not following her own advice here because she was not invited to tweet this.
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Um, it was not welcome and it certainly didn't enrich anyone or anything except for her own ego,
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but that doesn't matter because she's a woman. So it doesn't apply to her. This just again shows,
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and we should remember that as much as we might, we might like to believe otherwise, Charlotte is not
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alone in this attitude. There are a lot of college aged feminist women who this is how they see the
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world. And this is how they see men. This is how they're told to see men. But, um, I think what you
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find here, it, it, it never ends, it never ceases to amaze me how feminists just don't, it's not even
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that they don't understand men, which of course they don't, but they don't even, they don't understand
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human communication. They don't, they don't understand humans. They're like robots or something.
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This is not how human communication works. It reminds me of those, um, of the feminist,
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uh, affirmative consent laws that you find on a lot of college campuses these days
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to alleviate the supposed rape epidemic on college campuses where, you know, the affirmative
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consent means that if a young man is in a romantic embrace with a young woman, he must be given
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affirmative consent throughout the sexual act, which means as it progresses, he, he must ask
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the woman, can we continue? And she has to say, yes, we can. And there has to be affirmative
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throughout the entire thing. There has to be this continued affirmative verbal consent,
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which obviously is, is crazy. And that's just not how human beings work. That's, that's not how it
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works. Humans aren't like that. That's how computers operate. And it seems like feminists don't understand
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the difference between human beings and computers, which is a fascinating fact. All right. Here's something
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that that may not be of any great interest to most of you, but I'm going to babble about it. Anyway,
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Max Kellerman, um, a talking head on ESPN went off on a rant yesterday, uh, on, on his show on ESPN
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about how track and field isn't really a sport and it's inferior to things like basketball and football.
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I'm not sure how this came up or why they were talking about it, but they were, I don't have the
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clip to play you, but that's the summary track. Isn't a real sport. It's not as pure as football and
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basketball. And, and look, I'm a football fan and a basketball fan, at least during the playoffs.
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But, but this is absolutely ridiculous. And maybe I am biased as someone who I ran track in high
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school. I also enjoy running as a hobby. At least I did before my Achilles tear. Um, and ever since
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then, uh, then I've become sort of a fat, lazy slug, unfortunately. But, uh, still I can say that track
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track and field is not only a sport, but I think it's actually the purest and rawest sport in,
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in existence. There's no luck. There's no chance. There's nothing to hide behind.
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You think about it, even a great quarterback can get bailed out by a wide receiver, making a fantastic
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catch. Um, and a quarterback, the wins, if we talk about a, the win loss record of a quarterback or
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the win loss record of a basketball player or a pitcher, their win loss record is going to be
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determined not just by them, but by their, their teammates. And it's going to have at least as much
00:25:22.780
to do with their team as it does with them personally, or if not probably more, uh, with their
00:25:27.960
team than them personally, none of that applies to track. I mean, unless we're talking about relay
00:25:32.480
races, but if we're talking about just a straight 100 meter dash or my event in high school was a
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1600 meter mile, um, it's just you, your speed, your strength, your stamina, your mental and physical
00:25:45.740
endurance. And that's it. That's all you've got. Can you get to the finish line before the next guy,
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before everybody else on the track? If you do, you win. If you don't, you lose. And that's it.
00:25:55.520
There aren't any lucky bounces. There aren't any lucky catches. There aren't any lucky errors made by
00:25:59.780
someone in the outfield so you can get on second base. Um, uh, it's just, do you have the speed and
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strength to beat everybody else? That's it. If you do, you win. If you don't, you lose. And that's
00:26:10.820
a sport that's about as sporty as sports get. So here's how it breaks down because this whole
00:26:15.440
conversation about what's a sport, what isn't a sport gets people very heated and emotional,
00:26:20.640
uh, myself as well. So let me try to explain this. You have three categories that are kind of on a
00:26:27.860
continuum as I see it. You have sports, games, and then physical arts. Let's say a sport can be
00:26:37.800
defined as a physical competition requiring physical effort and skill between contenders
00:26:44.200
that can be won according to an objective set of rules. Okay. That's a sport. A game is a competition
00:26:51.420
relying more on strategy or chance than physical ability, which can be won according to a objective
00:26:57.520
set of rules. And then a physical art is a performative display requiring strength and
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agility and athleticism and grace, which is judged subjectively according to largely aesthetic
00:27:07.200
measures. That's, that's how, that's how all those things are defined. I sort of made all those
00:27:11.380
definitions up, but I think, I think they're, they're good. So according to that, football is
00:27:17.640
both a game and a sport and a little bit of an art. Um, but it's none of those things purely or
00:27:24.100
completely. It's sort of a, to a certain degree, all of them, but not completely any of them same
00:27:30.720
for basketball, hockey, baseball. Um, track on the other hand is to no extent a game or an art.
00:27:38.860
It is just a sport. That's all it is. A hundred percent sport, pure sport, all physical, all strength,
00:27:45.020
all objective. There's no judging. You might have it. You have a judge on the track to tell you if you,
00:27:49.720
who crossed the finish line first, or did you step out of, but, uh, uh, but that's not,
00:27:54.220
that's not subjective. You either did or you didn't. Something like gymnastics is not a sport
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at all. It is pure art because it is all subjective. In most gymnastic events, there is no way to win
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except by a judge subjectively assessing how you looked while you were doing it. That's an art.
00:28:12.360
That's not a sport. Um, and then something like poker is just, or, or, uh, you know, that's just pure
00:28:18.180
game. That's not bowling. Okay. That's just a game. It's not a sport. It's not an art. So that's
00:28:22.220
how it all breaks down. Um, and then soccer is none of those things. Soccer is just an activity
00:28:29.020
for women and children to play, uh, when they're bored, I guess. That's how, so I think we can just
00:28:34.160
put that all to rest. There's a continuum and that's how all that stuff. And by the way, it's not,
00:28:38.800
when I say gymnastics isn't a sport, that's not an insult. It's to be an art is a wonderful thing.
00:28:44.760
It's just, it's not the same kind of thing. All right. Let's, um, we'll go to, to emails,
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uh, Matt wall show at gmail.com. I actually also wanted to mention, I finally watched,
00:28:56.440
uh, the live action Aladdin movie with my kids yesterday at their insistence. I didn't want to
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see it because as I've shared before, I think the whole remake, the live action remakes of cartoons
00:29:10.740
is a stupid cash grab and I don't want to support it, but they convinced me to watch it with them.
00:29:16.300
And honestly, I'll never forgive them for doing that to me because it was much worse than even I
00:29:22.540
expected. Uh, it was really, really bad. I mean, amazingly bad. It was so bad that I could almost
00:29:32.240
recommend it because it was so bad just so you could gawk at the, at the poor quality of it. It's,
00:29:39.060
I mean, it was amazing. It was like a high school stage production of Aladdin, but with worse acting.
00:29:45.760
And here's what I'm trying to figure out. This, this is a thing that's been, that's been perplexing
00:29:49.340
me ever since I watched it with my kids. Um, okay. So you're, if you're Disney, you have
00:29:57.020
billions of dollars at your disposal. You have hundreds of millions that you can spend on this
00:30:03.440
movie. How do you end up with bad actors? That's what got me the whole time I'm watching. The acting
00:30:10.420
is so bad. How could you end up with bad actors? I mean, I knew that it would lack the charm and
00:30:16.240
originality of the, of the, of the first one. I knew that and it did severely so, but I wasn't
00:30:22.700
expecting the acting to be so bad. How does that happen? You can pay whoever you want. You can get
00:30:30.400
whoever you want in Hollywood probably to be in this thing and you end up with bad actors.
00:30:36.420
But then I realized, of course, I know what happened that these days, especially with,
00:30:42.320
with, with companies like Disney, the first priority is to make sure that your actors
00:30:46.920
will pass the identity politics test. Okay. They have to be sufficiently ethnically pure according
00:30:54.040
to whatever character they're playing. And that's, and that really is the only priority now.
00:30:58.100
So Disney was made, they were making a, a live action Aladdin remake, something that's set in
00:31:05.320
the middle East. And so it's, it's just a whole, a landmine for them. Um, if you'll pardon that,
00:31:12.200
that, uh, that metaphor. Uh, but it's a, it's a landmine because they know that, okay, now they,
00:31:17.380
they have, these are Arabic characters. And so they've really got to make sure
00:31:21.460
that all of the actors they find are sufficiently Arabic. And I think that, um, that's,
00:31:28.540
they decided that's the only thing that matters. It doesn't actually matter if they can really act.
00:31:32.800
All that matters is do they pass the test politically? And they did. They passed that
00:31:39.140
test. Unfortunately they couldn't act. And so that's what's happening. I mean, it's gotten so
00:31:43.180
ridiculous now that the latest outrage that I just saw this morning is, um, there's a movie coming out
00:31:50.300
starring Dakota Fanning playing a white, at least this is how it's being phrased. She's playing a
00:31:57.940
white Ethiopian Muslim. And this is a movie about a real person who was a, a British, a white British
00:32:09.100
woman who moved to Ethiopia, um, became a naturalized citizen and was also a Muslim. I don't know if she
00:32:16.860
converted or she was originally. People are outraged by that. I don't even understand it now. Somehow
00:32:25.460
that's, that's offensive for Dakota Fanning to she, Dakota Fanning is a white woman playing an actual
00:32:33.580
white woman. What are we now at the point where you're just not allowed to have white actors in
00:32:41.380
a movie at all, even if they're playing white characters? I think that's, that's where this
00:32:47.240
is headed. That you just, you're, you can't have it's, if it's a white, you white actors aren't
00:32:52.980
allowed to play anybody anymore. It doesn't matter who they are. It doesn't matter who they're playing.
00:32:55.940
They can't play anybody. I think that's where we're headed. And it's obviously absurd. All right.
00:33:01.180
Uh, Matt Walsh show at gmail.com, Matt Walsh show at gmail.com is email address. This is from Mike
00:33:05.340
says, dear Matt Walsh, thank you for giving us your input regarding the Harry Potter controversy in
00:33:09.360
your latest podcast. Um, on a similar note, I am a devout Christian and wanted to know your opinion
00:33:15.380
about Renaissance festivals. Are these events just an excuse for people to gather and create fantasies
00:33:20.360
of witchcraft, et cetera. So overall, do you approve of these events or not? Thank you for your
00:33:26.060
wisdom into this pressing matter. Is this a thing? Are there people who, are there Christians who say
00:33:30.480
that Christians shouldn't go to Renaissance festivals because there's witchcraft? I went
00:33:35.040
to one Renaissance festival a long time ago. The only thing I remember is the big delicious, uh,
00:33:40.260
turkey leg. And, and that's all that I remember. And honest, I don't remember any witchcraft, but
00:33:45.220
honestly, if there was a little bit of witchcraft, I think it was probably worth it for the turkey
00:33:53.280
J Mac says afternoon, mighty Matt master driver and owner of the super fly button ups. Uh,
00:34:02.900
I thank you for noticing. I enjoyed your take on faith and reason the other day. You did a good
00:34:08.000
job using reason to explain reasons purpose towards faith. Although this did have the effect
00:34:12.440
of leaving faith by the wayside. To me, it came across as your reason trying to justify its own
00:34:17.740
importance as reason instead of an augment to faith. I wanted to attempt to explain the
00:34:22.080
dichotomy of faith and reason as best I could, despite faith being an ineffable entity that
00:34:26.680
recoils all words that try and pin it down. Reason is definitely a handy tool used to familiarize
00:34:31.720
ourselves to the world we live in. A cartographer can reason a triangle on a map to become the symbol
00:34:37.720
of a mountain. However, a triangle does not encompass all that is the mountain. Reason is our
00:34:42.560
limited and flawed perspective struggling best they can to iron out the mysteries of the world. We name
00:34:47.920
the organs on the body, though their names would not dictate or explain the organs function.
00:34:52.080
There is much we don't know about God. God's organs, perceptions, plans. We do, however,
00:34:57.220
have the ability to feel his divinity and hear his voice. Faith is that feeling of oneness with God.
00:35:02.680
It doesn't require you to know him, but it opens the channel of knowing. To use reason is to use
00:35:07.400
the language of humans. Faith would be the language of God. The feeling in your bones that there is
00:35:12.920
forgiveness and evil one day be exhumed from the corpse of man's relation to sin. You don't need
00:35:17.840
language or understanding to tap into serendipity. If anything, language becomes a barrier to divinity
00:35:22.280
as we try and express God through language instead of an all-accompassing form. Reason is the prediction
00:35:27.260
of events based on seen experience and knowledge. Faith is the knowing that there will always be a
00:35:32.200
silver lining. Sorry if this doesn't make much sense. I tried my best with limited tools. I have
00:35:37.200
been provided. Well, J-Mac, I think that was beautifully put, actually. I would maybe counter,
00:35:44.180
not even counter, because I don't disagree fundamentally with most of what you said there,
00:35:49.920
but I would add that to me, reason is, in the simplest definition for reason, I think,
00:35:58.120
is that it is our ability to contemplate and understand. I think that's what reason is.
00:36:07.640
And I think that's why we are reasonable creatures, and squirrels and worms and fish are not.
00:36:15.440
They can think. They can probably feel. But they don't contemplate abstract concepts. They don't come
00:36:23.780
to an understanding. They don't sit down and say to themselves, gee, let me try to really understand
00:36:28.940
this thing over here. So in this sense, if this is what reason is, and I think that's the case,
00:36:37.960
then reason is inextricably tied to faith, so much so that I don't think you can really put them
00:36:43.600
in different categories. So when you say that I was advocating reason and putting faith to the
00:36:49.660
wayside, I don't think that's possible. I think that they're sort of dimensions of the same thing.
00:36:55.500
Because to say something like, I think God exists, or I think God created the universe.
00:37:03.900
Now, I guess you would say that's a statement of faith. And it is. But it's also a statement of reason,
00:37:11.040
just the same. Because in order to make that statement, you first have to know
00:37:16.340
what it means for a thing to be created. You have to know what the universe is,
00:37:23.440
and that one exists. And you have to have some basic idea of what God is. You say God,
00:37:30.440
you have to—now, none of us can know God completely, but when we say we believe in God,
00:37:34.400
we have to have some idea of what we believe in. That word has to mean something to us.
00:37:39.020
And so I think all of that is reason, right? Knowing what the universe is, knowing what it is
00:37:45.980
to create, having some idea of God, understanding that everything that exists must originate somewhere.
00:37:53.700
I mean, all of these things are related to reason, in addition to faith. And so I, as I said,
00:38:01.940
I just, I don't think you can separate them. This is from Corbin, says,
00:38:07.340
Hey, Matt, I'm a high school student, and I have a very good, smart friend. However,
00:38:10.320
she doesn't believe in the moon landing. I've tried to convince her, but beliefs are very firm.
00:38:14.620
She believes that since no one can prove it without citing NASA, it is therefore a cover-up.
00:38:18.980
I've talked to teachers about it, and they have agreed with her.
00:38:22.640
They've agreed with her? Is there a point to continuing this argument? And if so, how should I
00:38:29.620
argue this? Well, Corbin, first of all, the fact that your teachers agreed with her is horrifying.
00:38:37.340
Though, also not surprising. But there's an old saying that says, you can't reason somebody out
00:38:45.180
of a position that they weren't reasoned into to begin with. Meaning, your friend did not adopt
00:38:50.400
this belief because she seriously studied the issue objectively, considered the evidence,
00:38:55.840
and arrived at this conclusion. She might claim that's what she did, but I guarantee you that's not
00:39:00.940
what she did. Because nobody who does that could possibly come to the conclusion that the moon
00:39:05.980
landing was a hoax. You can only come to that conclusion if the, quote, research you've done
00:39:12.540
has consisted of Googling specifically these conspiracy sites and looking only at the information
00:39:20.500
they provide you and not looking at any other sources. That's the only way you can maintain a belief
00:39:25.340
that is so delusional and divorced from reality. And so that we know that that's all she's done.
00:39:30.820
Which means, again, speaking of reason, she was not reasoned into that belief. It is an unreasonable
00:39:37.400
belief that she adopted because she wanted to believe it. Now, why does she want to believe
00:39:44.040
that the moon landing never happened? You know, I don't know. That's a whole separate conversation.
00:39:47.880
And we've talked about that before. Why do people want to believe these crazy conspiracy theories?
00:39:51.680
I think there are a whole host of reasons. And probably the most simple is just that
00:39:57.180
they find it exciting. Where it's kind of cinematic. They sort of want to live in a world
00:40:04.080
where there are these shadowy, conspiratorial forces that are doing stuff like that. It makes
00:40:10.100
them feel like they're in a James Bond movie or something. Which, of course, even if it's true
00:40:16.820
that the world would be more exciting that way. That doesn't mean, that's not evidence that it
00:40:23.360
actually happened. But also, I think it's way more exciting, way more exciting, to contemplate
00:40:31.740
the fact that we actually did land on the moon. But anyway, that's the psychology of it.
00:40:40.260
And that's a different question. But this is an irrational belief. That's the point. And
00:40:49.000
you know, we all have some irrational beliefs. It's part of being a human being, unfortunately.
00:40:54.180
This is one of hers. And all you can do, I think, is just give her the facts,
00:40:59.500
which maybe you've already done. Make sure she's been exposed to those facts.
00:41:04.280
So that she at least has them in her orbit, pardon the pun, and then wait for her to grow
00:41:12.360
out of this on her own. And she probably will eventually. But that's the thing. When somebody
00:41:18.100
has an irrational, unreasonable belief, they have to get to a point where they're willing to
00:41:28.160
sort of step out of that and actually look objectively at the situation. And there's
00:41:36.100
nothing you can do to force them to do that. And as long as they're unwilling to step out of those
00:41:43.120
beliefs for a moment, at least, and look objectively at the evidence, as long as they're unwilling to do
00:41:47.380
that, there's nothing you can say in the moment that's going to convince them. But you can plant the
00:41:52.380
seed, put the information there. And eventually, when she grows up a little bit, maybe she'll venture
00:41:57.980
her out into the world of reality and say to herself, oh, you know what? Corbyn was actually
00:42:02.520
right about that. Although, unfortunately, she'll probably never come back to you and say,
00:42:06.820
you know what? You were right. Because that's also, unfortunately, part of human nature.
00:42:12.480
But thanks for the email. Thanks for the question. Thanks, everybody, for watching. Godspeed.
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