The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 383 - Terrible And Unlikable Candidate Ends Campaign. The Left Blames Racism

00:00:00.000 You know, Kamala Harris was a viscerally unlikable, chronically dishonest, morally corrupt, thinly veiled authoritarian. 1.00

00:00:11.580 And honestly, I'm shocked she didn't get more support among Democrats for that reason, because they tend to go for those types.

00:00:17.120 But they didn't go for Harris, apparently, and that's why her campaign ended yesterday. 0.98

00:00:20.940 If you heard the news, she dropped out.

00:00:23.640 They didn't like her. Why didn't they like her? Well, because of racism. 0.98

00:00:27.700 Obviously. The media has already figured that out.

00:00:31.420 In fact, an article went up in The Independent pinning Kamala's campaign's failure on racism.

00:00:38.360 And this article went up, I swear it was like 14 seconds after she announced that the campaign was ending.

00:00:43.320 They already put the article up, because they had written it six months ago, probably, and they were just sitting there waiting to publish it.

00:00:49.740 So as soon as she announced it, the bat signal went up, they grabbed the crowbar, broke the glass, hit the big red button, deployed the It Was Racism article. 0.83

00:00:58.460 And let me read a little bit from this article, since we're on the subject.

00:01:03.460 Title, Kamala is a Cop was a racist narrative that killed Harris's campaign dead.

00:01:09.100 And whatever you think about her, it's deeply unfair.

00:01:12.980 Killed it dead.

00:01:14.240 Didn't just kill the campaign, killed it dead.

00:01:16.420 Didn't kill it alive, killed it dead.

00:01:18.880 This is written by Frederick Joseph.

00:01:20.300 It says, um, uh, there's a saying among, uh, there's a saying that almost every black person in America is familiar with.

00:01:27.900 If you have, if you have to work two times harder and be twice as good.

00:01:30.900 This phrase has been passed down for generations from parents and grandparents, uh, and, uh, to young black people.

00:01:37.600 It's not just an explanation.

00:01:38.700 It's a warning.

00:01:39.800 America was built for white people. 0.99

00:01:41.260 So if black people want something, it will be much harder.

00:01:43.680 It began with subtle racism and microaggressions, such as being seen as not likable and being called overconfident.

00:01:52.000 And it escalated from there.

00:01:53.500 So this is somebody who uses the phrase microaggression unironically, just so you know who we're dealing with.

00:01:59.320 Uh, which I didn't even think that was a thing anymore.

00:02:02.340 I thought using the phrase microaggression unironically, it's kind of like saying you're triggered unironically, which I figured that people who are apt to be triggered by things probably use a different phrase now because that one has become so poisoned by the mockery that has been rightfully heaped upon it.

00:02:21.940 But not for this individual, Frederick Joseph.

00:02:24.100 He says, and it is, it's a microaggression.

00:02:28.120 So if you, if you didn't think that Kamala Harris was, was, uh, was likable, then you're subtly racist.

00:02:35.600 You have to think that every black person is likable because if you don't, now you could think that a white person is not likable and that's perfectly fine. 0.77

00:02:43.360 What about Beto O'Rourke?

00:02:44.800 He dropped out.

00:02:47.220 A lot of people didn't find him likable.

00:02:49.040 I found him to be intensely unlikable, Beto O'Rourke, like so many other people, which is why his campaign was a failure, why he was polling at 0.0%.

00:02:57.180 So is that a microaggression?

00:02:59.180 Is that racism?

00:03:01.220 And if it's not, then isn't it possible that we, in the same spirit that we find Beto O'Rourke unlikable, we also find Kamala Harris unlikable?

00:03:11.080 From the start, many had fair questions about Harris's policies, the platform she'd be running on, and her prosecutory record.

00:03:19.060 These were all important questions, but nothing that would ordinarily be insurmountable for a candidate with her experience in pedigree.

00:03:27.040 With claim and surging support would also come strategic moves by her opposition to throw her campaign into disarray.

00:03:33.280 Well, I can only imagine.

00:03:34.940 Wait, you're telling me that Kamala Harris's political opposition tried to throw her campaign into disarray? 0.87

00:03:41.680 Well, this is the first time that's ever happened.

00:03:43.520 It must be racism.

00:03:45.440 You're telling, well, wait a second, Frederick Joseph.

00:03:47.760 Are you telling me that the people running against her were trying to stop her from doing well?

00:03:56.140 What?

00:03:57.520 Well, this is scandalous.

00:03:59.160 This is surely the first time in the history of politics this has ever happened.

00:04:04.140 She's the victim.

00:04:05.100 This is unfair.

00:04:06.660 It is so unfair for her political opponents to try to prevent her from beating them.

00:04:12.680 It's so unfair.

00:04:16.120 Let's see what else.

00:04:17.060 So it goes on and on.

00:04:21.560 Racism, racism.

00:04:23.640 And anyway, I don't think we need to go from there.

00:04:27.320 Kamala Harris started out from behind, operating in a system fueled by double standards. 1.00

00:04:34.840 She tried to be the first woman of color to become president in a country with a legacy of racism. 0.99

00:04:39.060 She tried to do it during the xenophobic presidency of Donald Trump.

00:04:42.660 This isn't a defense of Kamala Harris as a politician, nor is it a defense of her record.

00:04:46.360 This is a defense of her as a black woman who was treated unfairly.

00:04:49.320 Defense of black women everywhere who are treated unfairly.

00:04:51.580 The black women who work twice as hard and are twice as good, yet still receive less. 1.00

00:04:56.000 Now, hold on a second.

00:04:57.120 So you're not defending her record.

00:04:59.140 Well, why not?

00:05:00.940 Frederick Joseph, what do you think of her record?

00:05:03.040 Did you think it was a good record?

00:05:04.020 Because if you didn't, if you're telling me that you didn't like her record either and didn't support her,

00:05:10.020 then maybe you're starting, is it starting to come together for you now?

00:05:12.860 Are you maybe starting to see why?

00:05:14.860 See, you're not defending her record.

00:05:16.860 Well, a lot of people didn't like her record.

00:05:19.060 And that's why she had to drop out.

00:05:20.920 Are you starting to see how this all sort of comes together?

00:05:23.340 And do you like how these race hustlers, they just pretend that Barack Obama never existed?

00:05:35.980 We're just going to pretend that never happened.

00:05:39.660 Are you really going with the Americans wouldn't support a black candidate because of racism

00:05:44.460 three years after a black president completed his second term in office?

00:05:49.420 Is that really what you're going with?

00:05:51.380 This is one of those things.

00:05:54.060 It's like, you know what it's like?

00:05:55.360 It's like when people always say that the I have a black friend excuse isn't a good defense against racism.

00:06:03.840 It's kind of the classic, it's considered the classic bad defense against racism.

00:06:09.620 But actually, I mean, it's a pretty good defense.

00:06:14.620 It might not be bulletproof, but it's pretty good.

00:06:18.640 Because it stands to reason that racists probably don't have friends that belong to the race that they're racist against.

00:06:27.960 Just like, you know, if you call a guy an anti-Semite and then he tells you that,

00:06:33.720 well, I just got back from my Jewish friend's daughter's bat mitzvah.

00:06:38.460 It doesn't mean he's not an anti-Semite, but it's pretty good evidence that he isn't, isn't it? 0.94

00:06:43.380 It's at least evidence in his favor.

00:06:47.800 To act like it's not even evidence, like it can't even be brought into the discussion, is just absurd.

00:06:52.620 Of course it can.

00:06:54.400 Well, it's the same thing with a black president. 0.96

00:06:56.060 We're told that, well, America had a black president,

00:06:58.980 isn't a good defense against the charge that America is systematically racist.

00:07:02.720 But it kind of is, though.

00:07:06.100 It may not settle the dispute.

00:07:08.740 There have to be other things brought in.

00:07:10.460 But it's a really good piece of evidence in favor of the claim that America is not systematically racist.

00:07:18.220 And if it isn't, if electing a black man president isn't even evidence that America might not be systematically racist, 0.77

00:07:28.480 then what you're really saying is that the claim America is systematically racist is unfalsifiable.

00:07:35.380 You're saying that nothing could be evidence against it.

00:07:38.300 Because if that's not evidence against it, then I can't imagine what,

00:07:42.700 and then there couldn't possibly be evidence.

00:07:44.620 Because that's about as good a single piece of evidence that you could possibly present.

00:07:51.640 And if you're tossing that out, well, then what you're saying is it's unfalsifiable,

00:07:56.860 which is another way of saying that your claim has no real support or basis.

00:08:03.780 And so there you go.

00:08:07.140 Meanwhile, Cory Booker is still in the race, isn't he?

00:08:10.720 He didn't drop out yet.

00:08:11.500 So we're going to race him, too?

00:08:15.500 Pretend he's not there?

00:08:18.580 Oh, there was one other thing from this article.

00:08:21.080 I skipped right past it.

00:08:22.220 But there's somewhere in here, I believe, he mentions the claim that Kamala Harris, quote,

00:08:31.180 isn't black enough. 0.99

00:08:32.180 And he gives that as evidence of racism against Kamala Harris.

00:08:37.060 But are you, if that claim was made, or yeah, here it is.

00:08:41.340 At one point, it even appeared the social media bots were maliciously spreading tweets

00:08:45.220 claiming she wasn't black enough and questioning her ethnicity.

00:08:48.060 So you're saying that white racists were attacking Kamala Harris because she wasn't black enough?

00:08:56.100 That's what you're saying?

00:08:58.820 Is that how white racists operate?

00:09:00.940 Is that going to be there?

00:09:01.800 No, that's not.

00:09:04.940 You know, generally, when with that kind of claim, if that claim was being made, it probably

00:09:11.440 wasn't white people making that claim.

00:09:15.240 All right, let's let's move on.

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00:10:56.240 By the way, did you guys hear about the drama at the NATO summit?

00:11:02.800 Yeah, apparently Justin Trudeau was talking behind Trump's back,

00:11:06.880 and then Trump found out about it and was totally pissed.

00:11:11.240 And he called Trudeau two-faced, then he canceled his press conference,

00:11:14.840 and then Jake told Becky that Dave had a crush on her,

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00:11:20.880 And the other people at the lunch table were like, you didn't know that?

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00:11:26.080 And now I'm just like, oh my God, there's going to be so much drama

00:11:28.880 at Sarah's party on Friday.

00:11:31.880 Because, yes, our world leaders are a bunch of middle schoolers,

00:11:34.800 if you didn't know.

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00:11:38.160 Although I did appreciate, with Trump calling Trudeau two-faced,

00:11:42.040 I did appreciate the joke there.

00:11:44.300 I wish that he had been more explicit with the joke.

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00:11:50.900 He's literally two-faced.

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00:11:54.500 So that was an accurate assessment.

00:11:56.740 I wish that Trump had gone all the way with that comeback

00:11:59.680 and made the explicit connection between two-faced and the blackface thing.

00:12:03.540 He didn't quite do it.

00:12:05.220 But it was still a good comeback, nonetheless.

00:12:08.180 All right.

00:12:10.700 There's something else I wanted to talk about.

00:12:12.140 A freelance writer for the New York Times

00:12:16.260 and for some other publications as well.

00:12:19.180 Her name is Susanna Weiss.

00:12:21.320 And according to her bio,

00:12:22.620 she specializes in feminism, sex, and psychonautics. 1.00

00:12:26.500 I don't know what psychonautics are,

00:12:30.200 but you kind of get a general impression of what we're dealing with here.

00:12:33.680 And she recently attempted to basically instruct the unwashed Twitter masses 1.00

00:12:38.720 about the intricacies of consent.

00:12:41.440 And the main thing Weiss wanted us to know is that

00:12:44.500 consent is necessary in every sexual encounter,

00:12:49.900 even if it's a sexual encounter via text message.

00:12:52.540 So Weiss tweeted, she said,

00:12:54.980 ask consent for all sexual encounters.

00:12:57.200 Yes, even sexting.

00:12:58.580 I just came up with this script.

00:13:00.320 You're all welcome to borrow.

00:13:02.520 And then she actually provided a script

00:13:03.920 of how you might get,

00:13:07.140 obtain consent in order to sext with someone.

00:13:10.260 And her script has the would-be sexter saying, 1.00

00:13:13.460 I've been having some sexual thoughts about you. 0.62

00:13:15.940 I'd like to share over text if you'd enjoy that.

00:13:19.420 That's the opening line.

00:13:21.260 That's how you get consent.

00:13:23.140 Now, in this scenario,

00:13:24.920 the lucky sextee gives clear consent by saying,

00:13:28.640 okay, and then with the blushing smiley face.

00:13:33.700 Now, what do you do?

00:13:35.220 She doesn't get into this, 0.67

00:13:36.120 but what do you do if you open with that?

00:13:38.960 I've had sexual thoughts I'd like to share.

00:13:41.560 And then you get back,

00:13:42.420 instead of okay, smiley face,

00:13:43.880 you get back like a K with a period,

00:13:47.560 just K period.

00:13:48.600 Because everyone knows that that's passive aggressive.

00:13:53.380 Everyone except for my wife, actually.

00:13:55.840 Because my wife will do that. 1.00

00:13:56.940 She'll send a one-word text message with a period.

00:13:59.580 Then I always respond by saying,

00:14:00.800 what's wrong?

00:14:01.180 Are you okay?

00:14:01.640 She says, what do you mean?

00:14:03.240 I said, well, you can't do one word in a period.

00:14:05.440 Periods are passive aggressive in the year 2019.

00:14:08.060 If it's a one-word or one-letter text,

00:14:10.100 you've got to leave the period off

00:14:11.040 so I know that everything's okay.

00:14:12.500 Anyway, she doesn't get into the specifics there.

00:14:15.940 But this is the script for sexting.

00:14:20.140 And she doesn't give us a sample 0.85

00:14:22.640 of what the sexting itself might look like, thankfully.

00:14:25.380 But I guess we can use our imagination.

00:14:27.840 Now, there are, of course, a number of problems here.

00:14:30.880 The first and most obvious problem

00:14:33.240 is that the sexter, in this case,

00:14:35.520 comes across like Spock

00:14:37.340 or maybe a vaguely self-aware robot.

00:14:41.800 You know, like, greetings life form

00:14:43.760 requesting permission to initiate

00:14:45.300 robotic erotic communication sequence.

00:14:48.720 Which would be a great way

00:14:51.180 to maybe sweep one of the coneheads off their feet. 0.98

00:14:53.960 But it probably will be kind of weird

00:14:58.540 and tend to freak out any normal earthling.

00:15:02.020 And secondly, we have a sort of

00:15:03.740 chicken and egg problem here.

00:15:07.140 Because if you don't, you know,

00:15:09.880 you didn't have permission to think sexually

00:15:12.420 about the other person in the first place.

00:15:15.400 And you certainly didn't have permission

00:15:17.220 to ask permission to share the thoughts

00:15:20.280 that you're having.

00:15:22.080 So I think a real sexting with consent script

00:15:25.040 would have to begin with a neutral greeting.

00:15:27.460 Something like, hello.

00:15:29.980 And then work its way very slowly

00:15:32.460 over many pages

00:15:33.900 and hundreds of introductory questions

00:15:35.980 to the sexting request.

00:15:38.820 So it's sort of a Socratic dialogue

00:15:41.260 where you finally get to the sexting part.

00:15:44.940 Now, it's probably not fair

00:15:47.640 to pick on the sex expert Susanna Weiss here 0.99

00:15:51.200 because she's just one small example

00:15:53.420 of a growing trend

00:15:54.400 with her notion of consent.

00:15:58.320 This brings to mind, for example,

00:16:00.360 a few months ago,

00:16:01.100 maybe you saw the consent condom,

00:16:03.520 which would require four hands to open.

00:16:07.800 And NBC News said

00:16:08.900 that it makes a powerful statement

00:16:10.420 about consent.

00:16:12.120 More troubling,

00:16:13.120 certainly more dangerous,

00:16:14.220 are the affirmative consent laws

00:16:15.940 across the country,

00:16:17.140 especially on college campuses.

00:16:18.660 And what the affirmative consent law says

00:16:21.800 is that

00:16:22.480 any sexual encounter,

00:16:25.160 even one that seems to be consensual,

00:16:28.060 can turn into rape

00:16:29.220 if consent is not verbal and ongoing.

00:16:32.780 Now, what does ongoing consent mean?

00:16:34.360 It means that throughout the act,

00:16:37.580 and really it always comes down to the man,

00:16:40.260 throughout the act,

00:16:40.940 the man has to stop

00:16:42.120 and has to be given continuous

00:16:43.660 and explicit consent

00:16:45.680 to continue

00:16:46.800 as it's happening.

00:16:50.840 And then there's a consent checklist

00:16:52.500 over at Cosmopolitan,

00:16:54.920 which takes it a step further.

00:16:57.080 Now, at Cosmopolitan,

00:16:58.820 with their consent checklist,

00:17:00.920 item number three on the list,

00:17:03.340 and this is a checklist

00:17:04.060 that you go over

00:17:04.840 before engaging in sexual activity

00:17:06.360 to make sure that you have consent.

00:17:09.020 Now, here's item number three on the list.

00:17:10.700 Is consent ongoing

00:17:13.880 before, during,

00:17:16.620 and after an encounter

00:17:19.060 or throughout in a relationship?

00:17:22.260 After.

00:17:23.980 They're saying you have to get consent

00:17:25.740 for a sexual act

00:17:27.620 before it happens,

00:17:29.940 while it's happening,

00:17:31.440 and also after it's already happened.

00:17:35.300 How does that work exactly?

00:17:36.860 Who knows?

00:17:37.180 But it does mean

00:17:39.260 that you may become

00:17:40.120 an unwitting rapist

00:17:41.200 if consent for sex

00:17:42.700 is withdrawn

00:17:43.600 after the deed's

00:17:45.260 already been done.

00:17:47.320 Then Planned Parenthood,

00:17:48.820 which is an organization

00:17:49.700 that, by the way,

00:17:50.820 violates the consent

00:17:51.880 of 300,000 unborn children a year

00:17:54.120 by killing them

00:17:55.020 without their consent,

00:17:56.520 but they add another wrinkle

00:17:57.760 to this on their website.

00:18:00.260 They say that consent

00:18:01.600 has to be enthusiastic as well.

00:18:03.780 So, affirmative,

00:18:06.820 ongoing,

00:18:07.720 before, during, after,

00:18:08.920 and also enthusiastic.

00:18:12.320 The way they explain it,

00:18:13.540 they say,

00:18:13.880 when it comes to sex,

00:18:14.760 you should only do stuff

00:18:15.760 you want to do,

00:18:16.620 not things that you feel

00:18:17.680 you're expected to do.

00:18:19.380 Which, yes,

00:18:20.960 but how is your sex partner

00:18:23.180 supposed to know

00:18:24.160 if you don't want to do

00:18:26.420 the thing you said

00:18:27.460 you wanted to do?

00:18:28.340 And what does it have to do

00:18:31.240 with consent anyway?

00:18:32.180 Because if I choose freely

00:18:34.520 to do something,

00:18:35.480 despite not wanting to do it,

00:18:38.060 I've still consented.

00:18:40.940 Begrudging consent

00:18:41.800 is still consent.

00:18:43.560 The begrudging nature

00:18:44.840 of my consent

00:18:45.520 does not erase the fact

00:18:46.720 that it is consent.

00:18:48.400 So it's like if I walk outside

00:18:50.300 of the grocery store

00:18:51.260 and, you know,

00:18:51.720 you've got those,

00:18:52.780 some booth set up

00:18:53.940 and they're soliciting money

00:18:55.240 for whatever,

00:18:55.940 Little League,

00:18:56.940 or whatever it is,

00:18:57.860 and you feel

00:18:59.500 you don't really want

00:19:00.700 to give to them

00:19:01.280 but you feel guilty

00:19:02.280 because you still have

00:19:03.000 your change in your hand

00:19:04.040 with your receipt.

00:19:04.660 You haven't put it

00:19:05.040 in your pocket yet

00:19:05.800 and then they stop you.

00:19:06.860 Sir, would you mind helping?

00:19:08.180 And you've got,

00:19:08.720 you just,

00:19:09.320 you give them the money

00:19:09.920 because you feel guilty.

00:19:11.820 Now, it's begrudging.

00:19:13.620 You didn't want to give

00:19:14.900 but you did consent.

00:19:16.820 They didn't rob you.

00:19:18.700 It wouldn't be fair

00:19:19.500 to give to the

00:19:20.200 Little League fundraiser

00:19:21.100 and then later turn around

00:19:22.280 and say they robbed you

00:19:23.020 because they didn't.

00:19:25.680 So begrudging charity

00:19:27.000 is not robbery.

00:19:27.860 Begrudging sex

00:19:28.720 is not rape.

00:19:30.860 But it is,

00:19:32.540 I think,

00:19:33.940 ironic

00:19:34.380 that sex 0.95

00:19:36.400 in our

00:19:37.440 over-sexed age

00:19:38.880 has turned into this.

00:19:41.180 It's become

00:19:41.640 laden with rules

00:19:42.700 and stipulations

00:19:43.760 and fine print

00:19:44.800 and you've got

00:19:46.060 a packet of information

00:19:47.080 you have to go through

00:19:47.900 and get it notarized

00:19:48.940 and signatures

00:19:49.500 and you've got to get

00:19:50.300 a lawyer there.

00:19:52.220 That's what it's become.

00:19:53.480 even though we live

00:19:56.260 by all appearances

00:19:57.180 in a hedonistic,

00:19:59.400 amoral culture.

00:20:01.620 So there appears to be

00:20:02.700 some kind of paradox here.

00:20:05.900 And I think what happened

00:20:07.200 is that we fled

00:20:08.360 so far

00:20:09.280 and so fast

00:20:10.460 from anything

00:20:11.220 resembling sexual morality

00:20:12.800 that we basically

00:20:14.540 came full circle

00:20:15.620 all the way around the globe

00:20:16.660 and ran into it

00:20:18.340 from the opposite side.

00:20:19.200 and we end up

00:20:21.540 with our culture's

00:20:22.360 weirdest

00:20:22.640 and most significant

00:20:23.800 innovation

00:20:24.320 which is

00:20:25.560 hedonistic

00:20:26.460 prudishness

00:20:27.940 or prudish hedonism.

00:20:30.040 We become like

00:20:31.060 this Frankenstein

00:20:32.100 mixture

00:20:32.520 of Victorian England

00:20:34.020 and the 1960s.

00:20:37.420 It's not

00:20:38.260 very hard

00:20:40.060 to see how it came to this

00:20:41.100 because the hookup culture

00:20:43.700 is not what it was

00:20:45.120 cracked up to be.

00:20:46.120 It is, in fact,

00:20:47.760 as people like

00:20:48.480 Susanna Weiss

00:20:49.220 realize

00:20:50.400 it is fraught

00:20:52.200 with danger.

00:20:53.320 Physical danger,

00:20:54.420 emotional danger,

00:20:55.420 psychological danger,

00:20:56.480 spiritual danger.

00:20:58.080 When you put yourself

00:20:59.320 into the role

00:21:00.160 of a stranger's

00:21:01.220 sex toy

00:21:01.740 the pleasure

00:21:03.400 is sure to be fleeting

00:21:04.400 and it won't be enough

00:21:05.780 to compensate

00:21:06.380 for the peril

00:21:07.160 that comes with it.

00:21:08.660 So you've got

00:21:09.500 this ever-expanding

00:21:10.620 list of rules

00:21:11.680 and stipulations

00:21:12.680 and fine print

00:21:13.480 which is meant

00:21:14.280 to offer protection

00:21:15.120 from some of those perils

00:21:16.240 but the rules

00:21:17.320 always fail

00:21:18.040 and so more

00:21:18.760 and more rules

00:21:19.360 are added.

00:21:21.320 But

00:21:21.780 here's the point.

00:21:23.420 Why are these rules

00:21:24.560 necessary to begin with?

00:21:29.280 They're only necessary

00:21:30.620 because we've thrown out

00:21:32.260 the two ingredients

00:21:33.380 or

00:21:34.260 you know

00:21:35.360 the three ingredients

00:21:36.200 the main ingredients

00:21:37.100 that make sex 0.96

00:21:38.840 truly joyful

00:21:39.700 and also truly safe

00:21:40.940 and those ingredients

00:21:41.800 as much as we hate

00:21:42.700 to admit it

00:21:43.220 are love,

00:21:44.480 devotion,

00:21:45.080 commitment

00:21:45.480 also known as marriage.

00:21:47.380 So

00:21:49.660 the Cosmopolitans

00:21:52.600 and Susanna Weiss

00:21:53.600 of the world

00:21:54.240 they're not giving us

00:21:55.560 rules for sex 0.99

00:21:56.640 per se

00:21:57.340 rather

00:21:58.900 they're giving you

00:21:59.900 rules for sex 0.99

00:22:00.860 with strangers

00:22:02.820 who don't give a damn 0.93

00:22:03.700 about you.

00:22:04.360 What they're saying is

00:22:05.040 if you're going to do this

00:22:06.080 with someone

00:22:06.460 who doesn't care about you

00:22:07.620 and who you

00:22:08.620 hardly know

00:22:10.140 well then

00:22:12.020 here's a whole list

00:22:12.740 of rules

00:22:13.060 to keep you safe.

00:22:13.740 they're trying

00:22:16.100 to spare you

00:22:16.800 from the danger

00:22:17.500 inherent

00:22:18.020 in giving yourself

00:22:19.240 to a person

00:22:19.960 who doesn't know you

00:22:22.060 and doesn't care about you

00:22:23.140 and doesn't love you.

00:22:26.140 But

00:22:26.620 what they don't want

00:22:28.460 to admit

00:22:28.800 is that

00:22:29.460 the best way

00:22:30.340 to avoid those dangers

00:22:31.500 is just to

00:22:32.620 not do that

00:22:34.220 to begin with.

00:22:36.700 You don't need

00:22:37.520 to worry as much

00:22:38.480 about the lawyerly

00:22:39.700 stipulations

00:22:40.440 if you're with someone

00:22:41.660 that you know

00:22:42.500 you love

00:22:42.980 and you trust.

00:22:47.720 I mean

00:22:48.320 think about

00:22:49.900 with something

00:22:51.020 like sexting

00:22:51.780 now

00:22:52.820 I'll say on the record

00:22:55.120 probably not a good idea

00:22:56.780 to sext anyone

00:22:57.480 even your spouse

00:22:58.200 because nothing

00:22:59.120 you do on your phone

00:23:00.100 is really private

00:23:00.740 and

00:23:02.160 so I think

00:23:02.900 everyone would do well

00:23:03.800 to remember that

00:23:04.500 with everything

00:23:05.000 they do online

00:23:06.060 and on their phones

00:23:06.840 and on their computers

00:23:07.440 none of it is private

00:23:08.920 none of it

00:23:10.080 ever will be

00:23:10.800 so just to keep

00:23:12.240 that in mind

00:23:12.700 but

00:23:14.280 part of the

00:23:16.680 part of what

00:23:17.660 Susanna Weiss

00:23:18.300 is getting at here

00:23:19.020 is that

00:23:19.700 well

00:23:20.180 you know

00:23:20.560 if you

00:23:20.940 do this

00:23:21.760 with someone

00:23:23.060 you know

00:23:25.120 you gotta be careful

00:23:26.100 because

00:23:26.660 if it's unsolicited

00:23:28.580 who knows

00:23:29.080 what's gonna happen

00:23:29.700 maybe they'll call

00:23:30.260 the cops on you

00:23:30.980 maybe they'll take

00:23:32.560 your sext

00:23:33.660 and they'll put it

00:23:34.400 online

00:23:34.740 and they'll embarrass you

00:23:35.780 yeah but

00:23:37.820 again

00:23:38.160 see

00:23:38.500 those are the

00:23:39.280 dangers inherent

00:23:40.300 when you're

00:23:42.000 trying to act

00:23:42.720 this way

00:23:43.180 with someone

00:23:43.640 you don't know

00:23:44.480 and who's not

00:23:45.580 your spouse

00:23:46.160 at least

00:23:50.280 you know

00:23:50.620 you probably

00:23:51.380 don't have to worry

00:23:52.260 about the cops

00:23:53.180 getting involved

00:23:53.780 if you're being

00:23:54.360 flirtatious

00:23:54.860 with your spouse

00:23:55.460 because marriage

00:23:58.220 affords

00:23:58.800 a certain security

00:23:59.800 that a million

00:24:00.680 consent checklists

00:24:02.040 could never offer

00:24:03.660 now

00:24:05.900 that's

00:24:06.460 not to say

00:24:07.260 that abuse

00:24:08.000 and assault

00:24:08.480 and things

00:24:08.840 don't happen

00:24:09.360 in a marriage

00:24:09.800 of course

00:24:10.160 they do

00:24:10.560 but

00:24:13.680 verbal consent

00:24:16.400 all of these

00:24:16.960 consent rules

00:24:17.680 we come up with

00:24:18.500 it turns out

00:24:19.820 that they don't

00:24:20.300 really amount

00:24:20.860 to much

00:24:21.340 if they don't

00:24:22.020 begin with

00:24:22.540 the words

00:24:22.940 I do

00:24:23.440 if you're

00:24:24.360 taking those

00:24:24.780 words out

00:24:25.500 then

00:24:26.360 as we have

00:24:27.360 discovered

00:24:27.780 there's really

00:24:30.040 nothing you can

00:24:31.040 do to make

00:24:31.900 this completely

00:24:32.580 safe

00:24:33.000 because you

00:24:36.840 are

00:24:37.240 at the end

00:24:38.480 of the day

00:24:38.940 you are

00:24:39.740 giving yourself

00:24:40.460 over to

00:24:41.220 someone

00:24:41.820 who

00:24:42.860 isn't

00:24:43.980 committed

00:24:44.260 to you

00:24:44.700 and

00:24:46.760 you know

00:24:48.400 that they're

00:24:48.760 just using

00:24:49.240 you

00:24:49.560 now again

00:24:53.560 bad things

00:24:54.160 can happen

00:24:54.540 in a marriage

00:24:55.160 but

00:24:55.600 you know

00:24:56.500 when it's

00:24:56.980 in the hookup

00:24:57.780 culture

00:24:58.160 which is what

00:24:58.680 we're talking

00:24:59.100 about here

00:24:59.560 you go

00:25:01.560 into it

00:25:02.080 there's really

00:25:02.860 only bad

00:25:03.600 things that

00:25:04.000 can come

00:25:04.300 of it

00:25:04.760 if something

00:25:07.460 bad happens

00:25:08.100 in a marriage

00:25:08.680 if an assault

00:25:09.560 abuse

00:25:10.000 that's when

00:25:10.960 things go

00:25:11.400 wrong

00:25:11.760 but in the

00:25:13.060 hookup

00:25:13.260 culture

00:25:13.600 it's just

00:25:14.060 designed

00:25:14.740 that way

00:25:15.400 there's no

00:25:16.620 other

00:25:17.020 possible

00:25:18.060 outcome

00:25:18.640 you are

00:25:21.460 giving yourself

00:25:22.040 over

00:25:22.280 you are

00:25:22.520 making yourself

00:25:23.060 vulnerable

00:25:23.520 to

00:25:23.920 someone

00:25:24.860 who doesn't

00:25:25.860 give a damn

00:25:26.380 isn't devoted

00:25:28.340 to you

00:25:28.760 isn't committed

00:25:29.760 to you

00:25:30.020 doesn't even

00:25:30.400 pretend to be

00:25:30.920 committed

00:25:31.140 to you

00:25:31.540 and who

00:25:32.800 is just

00:25:33.140 using you

00:25:33.740 and you

00:25:35.160 know that

00:25:35.600 and that's

00:25:35.940 what the

00:25:36.160 arrangement

00:25:36.500 is all

00:25:36.840 about

00:25:37.140 all right

00:25:41.580 let's

00:25:41.960 go to

00:25:42.780 emails

00:25:43.080 mattwalshow

00:25:43.760 at gmail.com

00:25:44.800 mattwalshow

00:25:45.460 at gmail.com

00:25:46.520 this is from

00:25:47.800 Tony

00:25:48.140 says

00:25:51.040 hi Matt

00:25:51.440 you've said

00:25:51.880 in many

00:25:52.260 shows

00:25:52.680 that eating

00:25:53.300 dogs

00:25:53.820 is the same

00:25:54.400 as eating

00:25:54.820 other animals

00:25:55.600 have I said

00:25:56.860 that in many

00:25:57.300 shows

00:25:57.580 I know I

00:25:57.860 talked about

00:25:58.180 it yesterday

00:25:58.560 briefly

00:25:58.980 but is that

00:25:59.580 a topic

00:26:00.280 I go back

00:26:00.820 to frequently

00:26:01.340 eating dogs

00:26:02.520 maybe it is

00:26:03.460 I disagree

00:26:06.240 because dogs

00:26:07.020 have been

00:26:07.400 completely

00:26:07.720 domesticated

00:26:08.360 over hundreds

00:26:08.980 maybe thousands

00:26:09.620 of years

00:26:10.180 it is thousands

00:26:12.420 by the way

00:26:12.840 some new

00:26:13.520 breeds of dogs

00:26:14.400 would have

00:26:15.020 zero chance

00:26:15.580 of surviving

00:26:16.020 on their own

00:26:16.620 all they know

00:26:17.140 is how to

00:26:17.580 love humans

00:26:18.360 because dogs

00:26:19.320 have basically

00:26:19.780 evolved to be

00:26:20.420 our pets

00:26:20.820 it seems wrong

00:26:21.440 to turn our

00:26:21.860 backs on them

00:26:22.560 and eat them

00:26:23.180 it seems

00:26:23.560 treacherous

00:26:24.040 even

00:26:24.300 do you take

00:26:25.900 the stance

00:26:26.320 that we can

00:26:26.680 do anything

00:26:27.080 with animals

00:26:27.580 or is there

00:26:28.520 some moral

00:26:29.220 obligation

00:26:29.840 we have

00:26:30.240 towards them

00:26:30.740 maybe the

00:26:31.600 bad things

00:26:32.040 we do

00:26:32.460 to animals

00:26:33.040 are only

00:26:33.480 bad in

00:26:33.860 relation to

00:26:34.280 ourselves

00:26:34.600 for example

00:26:35.040 if there was

00:26:35.840 a serial killer

00:26:36.480 of dogs

00:26:37.100 would that

00:26:37.360 person only

00:26:37.840 be wrong

00:26:38.240 because they

00:26:38.720 are themselves

00:26:39.420 being wrathful

00:26:40.280 slash violent

00:26:40.940 what are your

00:26:41.740 thoughts

00:26:42.160 P.S.

00:26:42.840 I'm not a

00:26:43.220 dog owner

00:26:43.640 and don't

00:26:43.960 plan to be

00:26:44.500 smart plan

00:26:46.600 by the way

00:26:47.040 to not be

00:26:48.360 a dog owner

00:26:48.820 no Tony

00:26:49.660 I don't think

00:26:50.460 there's anything

00:26:51.080 intrinsically

00:26:52.000 immoral about

00:26:52.980 eating dogs

00:26:53.640 my point

00:26:55.220 yesterday is

00:26:55.740 it's a

00:26:56.040 cultural convention

00:26:56.840 you know

00:26:58.340 you're talking

00:26:58.920 about how

00:26:59.840 we as

00:27:00.480 Westerners

00:27:01.080 see dogs

00:27:01.880 not everybody

00:27:02.940 sees dogs

00:27:03.500 that way

00:27:03.900 not everybody

00:27:04.980 sees them

00:27:05.360 in the same

00:27:05.720 way

00:27:05.980 and you know

00:27:09.500 we see cows

00:27:10.780 as a source

00:27:11.860 of food

00:27:12.420 and we tend

00:27:13.100 to cherish

00:27:13.600 dogs

00:27:14.160 and not

00:27:16.240 see them

00:27:16.640 that way

00:27:17.140 some cultures

00:27:19.080 have a different

00:27:19.580 attitude towards

00:27:20.220 cows

00:27:20.560 is our

00:27:22.920 attitude

00:27:23.340 correct

00:27:23.940 and theirs

00:27:24.320 is wrong

00:27:24.700 I wouldn't

00:27:25.880 well if

00:27:26.340 they're

00:27:26.500 worshipping

00:27:27.580 the

00:27:28.640 idolatry

00:27:30.260 or worship

00:27:30.680 of animals

00:27:31.160 is wrong

00:27:31.620 but

00:27:31.960 in terms

00:27:33.360 of which

00:27:33.800 animals

00:27:34.240 we

00:27:34.500 domesticate

00:27:35.320 and which

00:27:36.320 we tend

00:27:36.740 to form

00:27:37.160 bonds

00:27:37.640 with

00:27:37.960 and which

00:27:38.260 we don't

00:27:38.620 you know

00:27:39.080 that I

00:27:39.540 think is

00:27:39.860 really just

00:27:40.280 a cultural

00:27:40.720 convention

00:27:41.220 I don't

00:27:42.140 think that

00:27:42.420 there's

00:27:42.580 anything

00:27:42.820 inherently

00:27:43.400 there's

00:27:44.120 any inherent

00:27:44.700 morality

00:27:45.240 going on

00:27:45.700 here

00:27:45.900 we do

00:27:47.060 have a

00:27:47.380 moral

00:27:47.560 obligation

00:27:48.060 to treat

00:27:48.560 animals

00:27:49.040 with respect

00:27:49.880 obviously

00:27:50.400 all animals

00:27:51.120 we shouldn't

00:27:51.440 be cruel

00:27:51.880 we shouldn't

00:27:52.260 torture

00:27:52.540 animals

00:27:52.960 or abuse

00:27:53.440 them

00:27:53.780 but I don't

00:27:55.180 see any

00:27:55.480 reason why

00:27:56.240 eating a

00:27:57.160 dog

00:27:57.640 should be

00:27:58.240 considered

00:27:58.660 intrinsically

00:27:59.580 different

00:28:00.140 from eating

00:28:00.880 a cow

00:28:01.440 or a pig

00:28:02.520 pigs are

00:28:03.820 very smart

00:28:04.260 animals

00:28:04.660 pigs are

00:28:05.060 social

00:28:05.440 animals

00:28:05.940 whatever

00:28:07.160 consciousness

00:28:07.900 dogs have

00:28:08.960 which I'm

00:28:09.340 not sure

00:28:09.840 nobody really

00:28:10.820 knows how

00:28:11.420 that works

00:28:11.800 exactly inside

00:28:12.440 a dog's

00:28:12.880 head

00:28:13.100 whatever

00:28:13.800 what sort

00:28:14.440 of awareness

00:28:15.020 a dog

00:28:15.480 has

00:28:15.820 we know

00:28:16.100 they have

00:28:16.320 some kind

00:28:16.700 of awareness

00:28:17.100 it's not

00:28:17.900 the same

00:28:18.240 as people

00:28:18.680 but I

00:28:20.360 don't think

00:28:20.560 there's any

00:28:20.880 reason to

00:28:21.440 assume

00:28:21.920 that a

00:28:23.500 dog's

00:28:24.120 awareness

00:28:25.280 and consciousness

00:28:26.280 and capacity

00:28:27.260 for suffering

00:28:27.900 is any

00:28:29.420 greater than

00:28:30.380 a pig's

00:28:31.340 I don't think

00:28:32.740 there's any

00:28:32.960 reason to

00:28:33.300 assume that

00:28:33.780 so let me

00:28:36.180 ask you this

00:28:36.680 what if a

00:28:38.640 dog dies

00:28:39.500 on its own

00:28:40.780 let's say

00:28:42.000 your family

00:28:42.480 dog dies

00:28:43.200 you didn't

00:28:44.260 kill it or

00:28:44.680 anything

00:28:44.860 the dog

00:28:45.560 died

00:28:45.800 would it

00:28:47.760 be immoral

00:28:48.580 to

00:28:49.340 eat

00:28:50.500 your family

00:28:51.920 dog that

00:28:52.360 just died

00:28:52.780 I mean

00:28:55.580 could you

00:28:56.320 articulate

00:28:56.820 any reason

00:28:57.960 why it

00:28:58.980 would be

00:28:59.300 immoral

00:28:59.760 now you're

00:29:00.240 I know

00:29:00.620 your reaction

00:29:01.280 your reaction

00:29:02.060 is like my

00:29:02.660 reaction which

00:29:03.260 is that's

00:29:03.680 weird

00:29:03.940 my first

00:29:07.040 visceral

00:29:07.340 reaction is

00:29:08.040 yeah that is

00:29:08.580 wrong

00:29:08.860 yeah you're

00:29:10.000 not gonna

00:29:10.200 Fido dies

00:29:11.640 you're not gonna

00:29:11.920 eat Fido

00:29:12.460 but that's

00:29:14.040 a visceral

00:29:14.440 reaction if

00:29:14.940 you ask me

00:29:15.320 to explain

00:29:15.980 it

00:29:16.280 I couldn't

00:29:18.640 really explain

00:29:19.140 it why is

00:29:19.640 it wrong

00:29:19.960 the dog's

00:29:20.780 dead

00:29:21.100 it's not

00:29:22.580 gonna hurt

00:29:22.860 him any

00:29:23.360 he's already

00:29:23.720 gone

00:29:24.020 so I think

00:29:27.040 the answer

00:29:27.480 is that again

00:29:28.380 it's a cultural

00:29:29.000 thing this is

00:29:29.680 just cultural

00:29:30.660 programming and

00:29:31.680 and that's why

00:29:32.540 we think it's a

00:29:33.380 problem in other

00:29:34.420 cultures they

00:29:35.040 would say

00:29:35.540 what's what's

00:29:36.300 the problem

00:29:36.700 and like I

00:29:39.680 said yesterday

00:29:40.040 when it comes

00:29:40.460 to the cultural

00:29:41.040 stuff this is

00:29:42.760 not cultural

00:29:43.360 relativism that

00:29:44.180 I'm doing

00:29:44.480 here cultural

00:29:45.860 relativism is

00:29:46.840 saying that each

00:29:47.920 culture makes

00:29:49.300 up its own

00:29:50.020 moral rules

00:29:51.060 there is no

00:29:52.060 inherent or

00:29:52.680 objective morality

00:29:53.560 and so whatever

00:29:54.480 is right in a

00:29:55.360 culture is

00:29:55.920 therefore right

00:29:56.480 I'm not saying

00:29:57.020 that if a

00:29:58.820 culture decides

00:29:59.780 that slavery

00:30:00.520 is okay it

00:30:01.240 doesn't make

00:30:01.540 it okay

00:30:01.820 but there are

00:30:04.100 some things

00:30:04.960 that that are

00:30:06.240 just conventions

00:30:07.380 and I think

00:30:08.140 that this is

00:30:08.820 one of them

00:30:09.180 when it comes

00:30:09.520 to your diet

00:30:10.160 okay that's

00:30:10.780 a classic

00:30:11.140 example aside

00:30:12.660 from things

00:30:13.000 like cannibalism

00:30:13.860 this is a

00:30:14.900 classic example

00:30:15.660 of a cultural

00:30:16.300 convention and

00:30:17.420 and that's

00:30:18.680 all let's

00:30:20.400 see this is

00:30:21.320 from Matt

00:30:22.080 says Matt

00:30:22.860 love the show

00:30:23.440 and I

00:30:23.680 appreciate your

00:30:24.380 insight quick

00:30:25.020 question how

00:30:26.000 would you refute

00:30:26.700 Buddhism why 1.00

00:30:28.600 does it seem

00:30:29.220 that so many

00:30:29.760 on the left

00:30:30.200 are more likely

00:30:30.760 to embrace

00:30:31.240 Buddhism go 1.00

00:30:33.220 Ravens yes

00:30:34.340 go Ravens

00:30:35.240 that's an

00:30:36.020 interesting

00:30:36.300 question and

00:30:37.080 the short

00:30:37.440 answer is I

00:30:38.320 don't know

00:30:39.380 the answer

00:30:39.780 to it

00:30:40.120 because I'm

00:30:40.760 not very

00:30:41.540 familiar with

00:30:42.560 Buddhism 0.96

00:30:42.940 certainly not

00:30:44.340 familiar enough

00:30:45.080 about it to

00:30:45.680 speak intelligently

00:30:46.500 about it for

00:30:47.040 very long

00:30:47.500 so I'm mainly

00:30:49.020 reading your

00:30:49.520 email because

00:30:51.100 I'm interested

00:30:52.480 to see if

00:30:53.100 other listeners

00:30:54.500 maybe know

00:30:55.100 something about

00:30:55.620 it and want

00:30:55.920 to chime

00:30:56.220 in and this

00:30:58.800 is something

00:30:59.120 that I've

00:30:59.420 thought about

00:30:59.780 it does seem

00:31:00.980 like obviously

00:31:02.200 there's Buddhism

00:31:03.080 has an appeal

00:31:03.840 in the West

00:31:04.440 especially

00:31:05.460 among people

00:31:06.620 on the left

00:31:07.160 why is that

00:31:09.260 exactly it's an

00:31:09.860 interesting question

00:31:10.640 based on my

00:31:11.740 very limited

00:31:12.440 knowledge of

00:31:13.080 Buddhism I'll 1.00

00:31:13.720 say first of

00:31:14.240 all that I

00:31:14.620 think you have

00:31:15.140 to distinguish

00:31:15.620 between Buddhism

00:31:17.380 as a sort of

00:31:18.500 system of thought

00:31:19.520 and outlook

00:31:20.180 a philosophy

00:31:21.260 even a

00:31:23.360 self-help

00:31:24.320 method so

00:31:25.700 there's that

00:31:26.820 sort of

00:31:27.300 Buddhism and

00:31:27.940 then you have

00:31:28.600 Buddhism as a

00:31:29.480 traditional religion

00:31:30.280 with metaphysical

00:31:31.680 claims and

00:31:33.800 I think many

00:31:34.660 Buddhists do 1.00

00:31:35.620 practice it as

00:31:36.500 a religion and

00:31:37.300 do believe the

00:31:38.360 metaphysical claims

00:31:39.300 of Buddhism but

00:31:41.580 the Western

00:31:42.100 liberals who find

00:31:43.220 Buddhism appealing 1.00

00:31:43.940 the ones you're

00:31:44.360 talking about

00:31:45.000 they're not

00:31:45.680 looking at it as

00:31:47.000 a religion

00:31:47.440 they're going to

00:31:49.020 it for more of

00:31:49.640 the psychological

00:31:50.360 aspects

00:31:50.920 now the

00:31:54.020 reason why they

00:31:54.660 would flock to

00:31:55.280 Buddhism over 0.99

00:31:55.880 Christianity I

00:31:56.640 think is easy

00:31:57.160 enough to see

00:31:57.880 Christianity makes 1.00

00:31:58.900 moral demands

00:31:59.960 whereas Buddhism

00:32:01.720 Buddhism in the 0.97

00:32:02.560 form that they 0.98

00:32:03.120 find appealing

00:32:03.720 does not

00:32:04.420 I also think

00:32:06.200 that even

00:32:07.380 religious even

00:32:08.600 even non-religious

00:32:09.540 people have a

00:32:10.440 desire an

00:32:12.860 innate desire

00:32:13.680 for some kind

00:32:15.140 of system some

00:32:16.380 kind of philosophy

00:32:17.240 that brings order

00:32:18.980 and meaning to

00:32:19.580 life and so

00:32:21.100 that's why they're

00:32:22.140 looking at

00:32:22.460 Buddhism but 0.97

00:32:24.200 then I also

00:32:25.180 think that we

00:32:25.760 should acknowledge

00:32:26.700 that Buddhism as

00:32:28.960 I understand it

00:32:29.900 does have

00:32:31.000 certain insights

00:32:31.880 into the human

00:32:32.760 condition

00:32:33.320 insights about

00:32:34.640 suffering about

00:32:35.620 contentment and

00:32:37.600 this is where I

00:32:38.060 might start

00:32:38.440 mangling things

00:32:39.260 but I think

00:32:42.440 two of the

00:32:42.900 main insights

00:32:44.600 Buddhism offers 0.79

00:32:45.420 from a

00:32:45.740 psychological

00:32:46.140 standpoint are

00:32:47.780 one that to

00:32:49.520 live is to

00:32:49.980 suffer

00:32:50.280 Buddhists were 1.00

00:32:52.380 not the first to

00:32:52.980 think of that

00:32:53.340 one but it is

00:32:54.420 an important

00:32:54.740 insight

00:32:55.100 suffering is a

00:32:57.440 part of life

00:32:57.880 okay that's

00:32:58.520 that's important

00:32:59.000 yeah and

00:33:00.680 then number

00:33:01.000 two

00:33:01.440 suffering is

00:33:03.920 born from

00:33:04.620 desire so

00:33:06.180 we suffer

00:33:07.800 because of

00:33:08.460 what we

00:33:09.480 want in

00:33:11.200 all cases of

00:33:11.960 suffering you're

00:33:13.140 suffering because

00:33:14.000 something is not

00:33:15.000 happening that you

00:33:15.780 wish was happening

00:33:16.740 or something is

00:33:19.520 happening that you

00:33:20.140 wish was not

00:33:20.620 happening and

00:33:22.240 that's sums up

00:33:23.400 all forms of

00:33:24.420 suffering for

00:33:24.940 human beings

00:33:25.460 it's your desire

00:33:28.140 for a thing to

00:33:29.140 stop or for a

00:33:30.380 thing to start as

00:33:31.580 the case may be

00:33:32.140 that really creates

00:33:32.840 suffering so the

00:33:33.580 Buddhist says if 0.80

00:33:34.380 you overcome

00:33:34.800 desire if you

00:33:36.820 overcome attachment

00:33:37.960 if you become

00:33:39.460 unattached from

00:33:40.540 desire if you live

00:33:41.400 in the present

00:33:41.880 moment while

00:33:42.660 accepting all that

00:33:43.760 is happening

00:33:44.220 without wanting it

00:33:45.140 to be different

00:33:45.640 then you'll

00:33:46.600 overcome suffering

00:33:47.720 and you'll be

00:33:48.400 content and I

00:33:49.600 guess that's

00:33:50.100 supposed to be

00:33:50.540 zen and so

00:33:51.440 on

00:33:51.580 I think

00:33:52.540 there's a lot

00:33:53.000 to be said

00:33:53.500 for some of

00:33:55.100 that especially

00:33:56.800 in our culture

00:33:57.480 where we have

00:33:59.500 the ad industry

00:34:00.300 and the media

00:34:00.860 and Hollywood

00:34:01.420 etc.

00:34:02.800 constantly trying

00:34:03.780 to convince us

00:34:04.980 that we should

00:34:08.980 want what we

00:34:09.560 don't have and

00:34:10.160 we shouldn't

00:34:10.600 want what we

00:34:11.060 do have and

00:34:13.220 we have this

00:34:13.860 effect of

00:34:15.120 desires constantly

00:34:16.560 multiplying and

00:34:18.220 you turn on the

00:34:18.760 TV and you

00:34:19.560 develop a desire

00:34:20.480 for something that

00:34:21.280 you didn't even

00:34:21.680 know existed

00:34:22.200 before you

00:34:22.940 turned it on

00:34:23.420 and so we're

00:34:24.760 constantly wanting

00:34:25.600 things we don't

00:34:26.080 have right

00:34:26.500 and so yes

00:34:28.820 the more that we

00:34:29.720 focus on wanting

00:34:30.740 what we don't

00:34:31.220 have and not

00:34:32.000 wanting what we

00:34:32.600 do have the

00:34:33.740 more we will

00:34:34.180 suffer and yes

00:34:35.820 living in the

00:34:36.480 present moment

00:34:37.060 accepting it for

00:34:37.860 what it is is a

00:34:38.720 key to being

00:34:39.260 content and

00:34:39.840 healthy I think

00:34:42.020 that live in the

00:34:43.720 moment is one

00:34:45.420 of the wisest

00:34:46.260 cliches that

00:34:47.600 modern culture

00:34:48.400 seems to

00:34:49.220 seems to

00:34:51.800 enjoy you

00:34:52.840 know of all

00:34:53.780 the cliches

00:34:54.300 people say I

00:34:54.720 think living in

00:34:55.220 the moment is

00:34:55.740 is actually

00:34:56.660 there's a lot

00:34:57.380 of truth to

00:34:57.780 that if you

00:34:58.640 can if you

00:34:59.020 can manage

00:34:59.420 it and this

00:35:04.160 is something

00:35:04.540 that again this

00:35:05.200 isn't just

00:35:05.540 Buddhism Jesus 0.96

00:35:06.600 talks about this

00:35:07.280 in the Sermon

00:35:07.660 on the Mount

00:35:07.960 but I think

00:35:11.060 I think that

00:35:15.820 one of the

00:35:16.260 one of the

00:35:16.660 problems though

00:35:17.500 with Buddhism

00:35:19.060 is the danger

00:35:19.960 of making

00:35:20.420 people too

00:35:21.020 detached even

00:35:22.400 indifferent

00:35:22.900 because that's

00:35:26.440 the balance

00:35:27.020 where and I

00:35:28.940 think Jesus

00:35:29.300 does a good

00:35:29.780 job of

00:35:30.140 Jesus does a 0.73

00:35:31.260 good job of

00:35:31.660 this but I

00:35:33.380 think the

00:35:33.700 Sermon on the

00:35:34.080 Mount strikes

00:35:34.540 this balance

00:35:35.000 I'm not sure

00:35:36.620 how well

00:35:36.920 Buddhism strikes 1.00

00:35:37.520 it where you

00:35:39.080 want to live in

00:35:39.600 the moment you

00:35:40.100 can't be obsessed

00:35:40.700 with desires

00:35:41.380 but you also

00:35:42.260 have to care

00:35:42.940 you should care

00:35:44.640 about the

00:35:45.180 suffering of

00:35:45.660 others you

00:35:46.320 should care

00:35:46.660 about the

00:35:46.980 state of

00:35:47.240 the world

00:35:47.540 you should

00:35:47.880 care about

00:35:48.180 the state

00:35:48.440 of your

00:35:48.640 soul and

00:35:51.000 there are

00:35:51.280 good things

00:35:51.900 that you

00:35:52.100 should desire

00:35:52.540 you should

00:35:52.760 desire holiness

00:35:53.360 you should

00:35:53.960 desire

00:35:54.360 happiness

00:35:55.620 real happiness

00:35:56.740 for yourself

00:35:57.260 and for your

00:35:57.620 family and your

00:35:58.080 children right

00:35:58.880 so maybe that's

00:36:00.460 where some of

00:36:01.180 the problems

00:36:01.540 come in but

00:36:02.200 I said that I

00:36:02.900 wasn't that I

00:36:03.300 don't know a lot

00:36:03.700 about it I'm

00:36:04.040 not going to

00:36:04.300 talk about it

00:36:04.700 and I talked

00:36:04.980 about it for

00:36:05.260 15 minutes so

00:36:06.080 that's the way

00:36:06.520 this generally

00:36:07.080 goes and now

00:36:08.420 I will enjoy

00:36:09.160 all the emails

00:36:09.740 from people

00:36:10.260 informing me

00:36:10.940 that I know

00:36:11.260 nothing about

00:36:11.780 Buddhism which 0.99

00:36:12.480 is basically

00:36:13.100 true let's

00:36:15.460 go let's

00:36:16.300 see we do

00:36:16.560 one more

00:36:16.880 here this is

00:36:17.240 from John

00:36:17.740 says kind

00:36:18.480 sir while I

00:36:19.140 do agree with

00:36:19.720 you personally

00:36:20.360 on practically

00:36:20.840 all points on

00:36:21.520 abortion I am

00:36:22.220 still pro-choice

00:36:22.980 on a governmental

00:36:23.520 level and I

00:36:25.940 see it the

00:36:26.700 pro-life position

00:36:27.440 of any

00:36:29.020 termination

00:36:29.460 after conception

00:36:29.960 being equivalent

00:36:30.480 to murder as

00:36:31.860 a theocratic

00:36:32.600 imposition

00:36:33.280 sans God

00:36:35.380 the value of

00:36:36.500 human life is

00:36:37.140 arbitrary so the

00:36:38.080 line of what is

00:36:38.920 or isn't

00:36:39.320 murder is

00:36:39.740 arbitrary as

00:36:40.300 well to call

00:36:41.120 terminating a

00:36:41.940 blastocyst murder

00:36:44.100 hinges on the

00:36:44.860 religious belief of

00:36:46.100 inherent value of

00:36:46.900 human life it's

00:36:47.880 obvious that many

00:36:48.540 people in the

00:36:48.960 country feel that

00:36:50.340 at least at the

00:36:50.820 earliest stages of

00:36:51.560 development an

00:36:52.120 embryo doesn't 0.82

00:36:52.840 equal a human

00:36:53.440 life that being

00:36:54.080 the case you

00:36:54.640 must admit that

00:36:55.180 your standard is

00:36:55.880 exactly that your

00:36:57.120 standard and the

00:36:57.840 imposition of your

00:36:58.520 belief on the

00:36:59.000 other people would

00:36:59.780 be theocratic even

00:37:01.360 though science says

00:37:02.220 life starts a

00:37:03.580 conception science

00:37:04.460 can't assign value to

00:37:05.780 life our

00:37:06.640 constitution applying

00:37:07.640 only to citizens

00:37:08.400 would necessarily

00:37:09.040 exempt this life

00:37:09.920 from constitutional

00:37:10.520 protections on

00:37:11.320 life seeing how it

00:37:12.540 clearly is not a

00:37:13.560 US citizen how

00:37:15.000 would it not be the

00:37:15.740 height of theocracy to

00:37:16.880 force your religious

00:37:17.960 standards on others

00:37:18.960 using the powers of

00:37:20.100 the state it seems to

00:37:21.320 me all valuations of

00:37:22.420 human life at any

00:37:23.220 stage and in any

00:37:23.980 form should be for

00:37:24.820 the purposes of

00:37:25.460 non-theocratic state

00:37:26.420 completely arbitrary

00:37:27.580 and drawn on a

00:37:28.420 compromise of public

00:37:29.280 consensus can't wait

00:37:30.860 to hear why I'm

00:37:31.540 wrong well I agree

00:37:34.220 with much of what you

00:37:34.860 just said there

00:37:35.340 believe it or not

00:37:35.960 John you say that

00:37:37.520 without God the

00:37:38.180 value of human life

00:37:38.940 is arbitrary this is

00:37:40.480 probably true but you

00:37:42.620 must see the problem

00:37:43.500 for your position I

00:37:46.060 assume that you still

00:37:47.020 think that murdering

00:37:48.240 born humans should be

00:37:49.700 illegal right not to

00:37:52.220 mention rape slavery 0.60

00:37:53.520 kidnapping theft and so

00:37:55.020 on all of that should be

00:37:56.820 illegal I assume you

00:37:58.380 would you would say

00:37:59.000 well by your logic these

00:38:01.880 are also theocratic

00:38:03.220 impositions as you say

00:38:04.620 because they all hinge

00:38:05.880 on the belief the

00:38:07.340 doctrine of the value

00:38:09.760 and dignity of human

00:38:10.500 life and that

00:38:12.380 doctrine lies at the

00:38:13.820 foundation of our

00:38:14.500 country it's it's very

00:38:16.140 much a spiritual

00:38:17.180 doctrine so we can

00:38:19.240 have this argument

00:38:19.740 about whether or not

00:38:20.320 America was founded on

00:38:21.240 Christianity America

00:38:22.540 was not founded on

00:38:23.400 Christianity that much 0.79

00:38:24.180 is clear but it's also

00:38:25.340 clear that it was

00:38:26.760 founded on a belief in

00:38:28.160 God on a belief in the

00:38:29.120 supernatural and that's

00:38:32.440 why it says in our in

00:38:33.460 our you know founding

00:38:34.620 documents in the

00:38:36.700 Declaration of

00:38:37.200 Independence everything 0.95

00:38:41.020 there about you know

00:38:42.780 created equal everything

00:38:45.180 about human rights that

00:38:46.780 are are inherent to human

00:38:48.660 beings well I have never

00:38:52.440 heard of a I've never

00:38:54.480 heard anyone explain what

00:38:57.240 human rights could be

00:38:58.780 without some sort of

00:39:01.500 supernatural without

00:39:02.120 without introducing some

00:39:03.360 element of the supernatural

00:39:04.560 into it because without

00:39:08.440 that then human rights are

00:39:09.980 well you said yourself

00:39:10.720 arbitrary where does it

00:39:13.440 come from now you could

00:39:15.640 certainly argue that

00:39:16.560 without God the case 0.97

00:39:17.860 against abortion is

00:39:18.660 rather weak because who

00:39:19.920 says that unborn children

00:39:20.860 have a right to life what

00:39:22.440 does it mean where does

00:39:23.740 that right come from which

00:39:25.420 okay fine I agree with you

00:39:27.180 but then who says that

00:39:28.760 anybody has a right to

00:39:29.720 life what does it mean

00:39:31.660 for anyone to have a

00:39:32.680 right to life or to have

00:39:33.460 any other right to

00:39:34.140 anything else where does

00:39:35.560 that come from and I'm

00:39:38.300 not sure how an atheist

00:39:39.340 solves that problem but

00:39:40.780 if you manage to solve it

00:39:43.340 for born people then I

00:39:45.320 think you've also solved

00:39:46.180 it for unborn people

00:39:47.060 whatever you have to do in

00:39:49.400 your mind to come up with

00:39:50.640 some idea of born people

00:39:52.380 having human rights and

00:39:55.020 having the right to be free

00:39:56.000 from murder and torture

00:39:57.160 and all these things

00:39:57.920 however you do that in

00:40:00.300 your head without God

00:40:01.800 well I don't see why it

00:40:03.560 wouldn't apply to to the

00:40:04.520 unborn as well but if you

00:40:06.760 can't solve it then you

00:40:10.100 must either say that all

00:40:11.880 laws are arbitrary and

00:40:13.400 grounded in nothing and

00:40:14.520 that human rights are a

00:40:15.480 fiction or you must say

00:40:18.760 that human rights and

00:40:20.140 human dignity have some

00:40:21.340 other source and I'm not

00:40:22.920 sure what that other

00:40:23.520 source would be that's not

00:40:24.640 my problem to solve I

00:40:25.620 think it's yours but

00:40:27.260 whatever that other

00:40:27.820 source is if it exists

00:40:29.960 it's the source from which

00:40:32.620 the unborn draw as well 0.69

00:40:34.540 so I think that's the

00:40:38.000 issue that you that you

00:40:38.880 run up against now if you

00:40:42.240 want to take a totally

00:40:43.260 nihilistic approach and

00:40:46.760 say that life has no

00:40:47.700 meaning none of this means

00:40:48.800 anything there's no reason

00:40:49.960 what really why anybody

00:40:51.020 should be protected from

00:40:52.660 murder or rape or

00:40:53.480 anything else and but you

00:40:56.780 know we do it just because

00:40:57.620 it makes it easier on us

00:40:58.600 if you know it's easier to

00:41:00.780 have a society if we all

00:41:01.940 pretend that it's wrong to

00:41:03.480 rape and murder and kill 0.98

00:41:04.700 if that's what you want to

00:41:07.820 argue then I mean we could

00:41:09.760 have that argument I think

00:41:11.880 you have to make it clear

00:41:12.680 that that's where you're

00:41:13.400 coming from as a nihilist

00:41:15.780 who does just doesn't value

00:41:16.800 human life at all and I

00:41:20.640 admit that that would be a

00:41:21.680 more difficult conversation

00:41:22.620 to have because if we're

00:41:24.280 starting you know if we do

00:41:25.920 not have a starting

00:41:27.340 consensus that at the very

00:41:29.600 least human life has value

00:41:31.040 if we can't even agree on

00:41:31.900 that then it does make it

00:41:34.260 more difficult to have the

00:41:35.100 conversation but if that's

00:41:37.600 not the world you want to

00:41:38.460 live in if you want to live

00:41:41.860 in a world where things have

00:41:42.960 meaning and it's wrong to

00:41:45.220 kill people you know and 0.97

00:41:47.580 murderers should be punished 0.57

00:41:48.740 because what they did is

00:41:49.560 terrible if you want to

00:41:50.800 live in that world then I

00:41:53.400 don't see how you exclude

00:41:55.180 the unborn from that I

00:41:56.820 think that is the

00:41:57.620 arbitrary thing to do see

00:41:59.700 it's not me drawing an

00:42:00.740 arbitrary line I think it's

00:42:01.760 you if you agree that human

00:42:05.680 beings generally should be

00:42:07.520 protected from these things

00:42:08.620 what I'm saying is yeah I

00:42:10.520 agree I'm with you so these

00:42:12.860 are human beings why exclude

00:42:14.980 them what reason is there to

00:42:16.120 exclude them I kind of would

00:42:20.940 say that the burden of proof

00:42:22.000 is on you to come up with a

00:42:23.120 good reason for I think that

00:42:25.760 our starting point our default

00:42:27.560 position should just be

00:42:29.880 assuming that all human

00:42:32.160 beings in any stage of

00:42:33.860 development should be

00:42:36.020 protected from murder I think

00:42:38.500 that's our default if you want

00:42:41.320 to draw a line and start

00:42:42.820 excluding people then I think

00:42:45.240 you the burden of proof is on

00:42:47.000 you to come up to explain your

00:42:49.160 reason for that and I don't

00:42:54.400 think that you've done that

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The Matt Walsh Show - December 04, 2019

Ep. 383 - Terrible And Unlikable Candidate Ends Campaign. The Left Blames Racism

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