In this special episode of the Whatever Podcast, we debate the controversial question: Is feminism good for society? In this episode, we are joined by political commentator and political cartoonist Jim Bob and political commentator Oliver Niehaus to debate this question.
00:06:04.280by women and much more for every claim he makes i urge you to ask has he actually demonstrated that
00:06:10.280feminism caused these outcomes or have they merely occurred alongside the rise of feminism because one of the
00:06:16.720most common fallacies i see from anti-feminists is treating correlation as causation yes feminism has grown
00:06:22.660so is the gap between the rich and poor yes feminism has grown and the birth rate has declined but that's not
00:06:28.480evidence of causation to those who accept that line of reasoning i'll remind you that there's a strong
00:06:32.480correlation between per capita margarine consumption and the divorce rate in maine or between the number of
00:06:37.840nicholas cage films released in a given year and the number of accidental drownings in swimming pools my
00:06:43.040point is this the burden is on jim bob to prove that feminism caused these trends not merely that they
00:06:48.340happened alongside one another and i will argue against this that these societal shifts are a result
00:06:53.500of broader economic cultural and technological forces that are caused by a combination of many
00:06:58.940other factors but feminism is not one of them i won't just refute jim bob's claims feminism has been
00:07:05.420an overall net negative for society i will also affirmatively make the case that feminism has been a force
00:07:10.300for tremendous good higher gdp in countries that have greater labor force population driven in large part by
00:07:16.020expanded opportunities for women which can be directly linked to more people using their talents to contribute to the
00:07:21.420economy and society countries like norway sweden and finland which have fostered more egalitarian systems and
00:07:27.240removed many barriers women face in both work and public life consistently show higher levels of prosperity and
00:07:32.800innovation and we see similar gains in productivity output numerous studies have shown that gender diverse teams perform
00:07:38.300better a princeton university study examining over six million research papers found teams that
00:07:44.020composed of both men and women produced more novel and influential work specifically mixed gender teams or nearly 10% more likely to publish novel research and over 30% more likely to be highly cited compared to single gender teams
00:07:57.020and that's not just this you know feel good rhetoric about diversity it's measurable concrete benefits
00:08:02.740of greater gender inclusion in the sciences and society at large i'll wrap it up here as i'm sure we'll explore many of these specifics further as the debate progressives
00:08:11.020but i will as i will continue to demonstrate the case is abundantly clear feminism has has had a profoundly positive impact on society
00:08:18.740and we must push back firmly and unapologetically against those who seek to drag us backwards thank you
00:08:25.460all right jim bob all right all right go with your open thank you so much all right the debate is is feminism good for society
00:08:34.380uh oliver defined feminism as individuals having the same rights equal opportunities in the world
00:08:40.960uh so on and so forth um i would argue that society we have to define society real quick society is an
00:08:48.360aggregate of people living in an ordered uh system an ordered community i want to focus on that word
00:08:54.540ordered for a second because without any order uh without any force without any threat of force
00:09:00.600you really don't have a society so when when oliver says equal rights equal this equal that well
00:09:06.420it's descriptively the case that it's not equal because women uh regardless of how much they want
00:09:13.080inequality it's always enforced by men which is an inequality so there's an irony there that
00:09:18.780feminism fights for equality but relies on inequality um so looking at some key components of what makes a
00:09:26.440society uh if you argue a society is good because of this reason it needs these components law and order is
00:09:32.760one of the components which i can't stress enough um without it you have nothing uh if you don't if he
00:09:39.480assumes rights that assumes law if you assume law that assumes force so when oliver says he reduces it
00:09:46.320to force everything oliver listed in his opening whether or not you thought it sounded good the only thing
00:09:52.880that's operating ultimately is force if men decide not to give those things to women they can do that
00:09:59.600if men decide to give those things to women they can do that essentially feminism is a set of
00:10:05.800grievances and requests a lot like a child in the room asking for more toys and then arguing for equality
00:10:12.500and calling uh the moment where the dad gives them the toys they call that equality it's pretty much like
00:10:18.040a larp um obligations and duties is a key one oliver even uh in his uh counter to my reduction of the
00:10:25.820force doctrine he included something called traditions right well uh obligations and duties
00:10:31.580is not something that feminism can provide at all um feminism just has this major assumption of
00:10:37.480equality that is in fact an outcome um so there is no equality of opportunity even among men so why
00:10:44.460would there be equality of opportunity among men and women obligations and duties is a key feature
00:10:49.640because the vision that oliver has and many feminists have for society they have a vision
00:10:55.400that the world's a certain way where women and men are doing all of these things together but the
00:11:00.540reality is the operation of the world the society itself including the hardest manual labor jobs which
00:11:06.460he listed uh building bridges tunnels uh managing the sewer system suddenly the feminist assumes that the
00:11:14.100men have a an obligation to keep these things going let's say the men decided to stop all of
00:11:19.560that work for a second they actually do it during strikes that's leverage right so the men actually
00:11:24.820descriptively do have the power i am not a one of those oppositional uh people to feminism arguing that
00:11:31.880the patriarchy doesn't exist the patriarchy does exist because it's descript it's descriptive of reality
00:11:37.580it can't not exist uh in other words for feminism to do what it wants to do it actually appeals to the
00:11:44.760patriarchy it doesn't negate it so for instance if feminism is a movement away from men in power
00:11:51.400let's say power is this this is men and women are here the idea is that we lower the men's power or we
00:11:59.620elevate the women's power the problem is it's a request it's a request so if feminism is a movement
00:12:05.300away from the men in power and women's rights let's say is a feminist movement why is it the case that
00:12:12.620women don't give themselves the rights it's men who give them the rights so if everything they're
00:12:18.640asking for under this feminist movement is a request from the power they're actually affirming
00:12:24.640the patriarchy um so that that's a good question for oliver to ask uh answer uh during the back and
00:12:30.720forth why don't women just give themselves the rights why don't they just give it to themselves well
00:12:34.840because they can't because collectively women can't uh take rights and they can't protect their own
00:12:40.320rights but yet in the same breath they're they're demanding these rights but they have no obligation
00:12:45.320that's not equality so if feminism is about equality i'm pointing out one very uh important aspect of
00:12:52.400society where equality can't possibly exist nor would i want it to exist i what i want the men in
00:12:58.860power and if you press uh especially women you'll see on this podcast a lot of times when you press them
00:13:04.160on this issue they actually concede that they'd rather have men in these power positions keeping society
00:13:09.600going uh i want to go back to leverage for a second um what does the woman have for leverage for
00:13:16.940instance let's look at voting for a second so when men collectively vote they're basically saying
00:13:23.100something they're saying i'm not going to group up with other men and overthrow the government
00:13:28.340they're basically communicating i'm forfeiting my will to gather other like-minded men get our guns
00:13:36.480and throw a rebellion in exchange i'm going to vote well when a woman votes what are they leveraging
00:13:42.520what are they exchanging there's nothing on the table for them to exchange i would argue the the
00:13:47.880only leverage women actually have in a society is their chastity is their ability to have children
00:13:54.120which is an extreme value i would argue it's one of the most valuable things women could uh appeal to
00:14:01.240in their in their political exchanges uh which leads me to the third part people you need people
00:14:07.240for a society yes uh reducing birth rates is a very uh important topic whether you blame it on
00:14:14.300feminism or anything else it's right in front of us so the question i would have if feminism was good
00:14:19.820for society how is it that feminism doesn't advocate for children for women to be mothers for
00:14:25.580for women to be in the home raising the next generation of children after all a society is
00:14:31.180made of people and what good is a good society if it doesn't have good people so the question
00:14:36.740tonight um is for for oliver to confront these fundamental issues the core issues and i would
00:14:43.880argue that there's feminism is essentially in a kind of a performative contradiction it says in one
00:14:49.860hand that they want equality right but they have no obligations they say they say in the same sentence
00:14:56.680that they want rights but they have no obligation or ability to even defend their rights so to claim
00:15:02.280you want these things and this is fair you're already smuggling in that there there is a group of men
00:15:07.720who have to or should be obligated to protect you defend you so i'd ask oliver uh you know it'll come
00:15:14.920up tonight do men have an obligation to protect women do men have an obligation to enforce law do
00:15:22.160men have an obligation to fight even in wars to defend so-called rights well the same obligation
00:15:28.660can't be made for women because they're collectively incapable which is why you'll never see in the
00:15:33.980history of humanity a time where women gave themselves the rights if they could have given
00:15:39.200themselves the rights they wouldn't be asking the patriarchy to do it um so yes i affirm the
00:15:44.360patriarchy of course but the question isn't whether a patriarchy is good for society because
00:15:49.000societies can't exist without the patriarchy it's a necessary argument whereas uh oliver is tasked
00:15:55.640tonight to tell us me and you and brian and everyone watching why is feminism good for society i would say
00:16:02.720it's overall not good for society for a variety of reasons one of which is the messaging for feminism
00:16:09.360has largely been uh sexual liberation for women women acting more like shitty men honestly like
00:16:16.680that that's liberating um promiscuity um that that's some sort of liberation policy for for feminism
00:16:23.580they're right about one thing though their leverage is sex their leverage is birth the the ability to
00:16:30.980give birth and be be a mother the problem with feminism is that it's inverted the power that women
00:16:36.960have their sexuality their womb it's inverted it and used uh convinced them to use that advantage
00:16:44.220against themselves and we're looking at it you know women are more in debt was it a good thing to
00:16:49.720shove all the women to the workforce you think you're empowered until you're 40 and and you have
00:16:54.860three cats and wine stained teeth and you have no husband or children or legacy and then you're you're
00:16:59.820dying to be invited to a wedding so you can talk to some groomsmen this is not empowering we have to
00:17:05.520reverse this we have to reverse it soon it's not just a an issue of societal collapse but it's a it's
00:17:12.700a it's an issue of morality as well which i hope we get into of course yeah absolutely okay well open
00:17:19.280conversation now yeah just open conversation so i'll just go ahead absolutely i'd love to kind of get
00:17:24.520into this idea of the forced doctrine i want to like just kind of make sure we have a mutual
00:17:28.800understanding there so is your view that um that the forced doctrine is the idea that the
00:17:33.180patriarchy itself is inevitable because because men possess greater physical strength generally
00:17:38.420than women that they can at any time impose their will upon women yes they can oppose their will on
00:17:44.440women and men sure okay so i guess i'm wondering even if we grant you know this idea that men are
00:17:50.340stronger than women generally um does like potential equate to actual like do you think that that is kind
00:17:56.260of a general like idea that we can operate off of like what could be the case is what should define
00:18:00.940well things are right now i would use more of like induction it's always been the case and it seems to
00:18:06.240be always the case similar to the sun rising okay um that men overall are going to be the ones
00:18:13.280enforcing and defending um offending defending and there's never been a case where women actually grant
00:18:21.360themselves the so-called rights that they're asking for or take those rights so it goes both ways men can
00:18:27.480activate their force take things from people men could activate their force and defend that people
00:18:33.620have things too now feminism is the latter so the question is can women collectively overtake
00:18:40.980the patriarchy i mean i think they technically could i mean so i think when we're talking about what
00:18:46.220could happen we're talking about hypothetical things so the entirety of men i don't think will ever
00:18:52.640agree on like enslaving women just like every single person there's always going to be some men
00:18:58.000that oppose them of course there's going to be you know maybe those men might win out in certain
00:19:01.500scenarios but there's always going to be some men that are against them so we're never going to have
00:19:04.880a situation where all men are trying to enslave women so when i'm thinking about this and i thought
00:19:09.440about this hypothetical and i think it was brought up on a previous podcast episode women could
00:19:13.080hypothetically um as you talked about leverage the fact that they give birth and either kill
00:19:17.400themselves or kill their male offspring and if they did that and if they collectively did that
00:19:22.900then they would have that power right well leverage that if if they can do that men could hypothetically
00:19:28.800counter that by using force to stop that from happening right i'm not sure i you know i i think that if
00:19:34.960people want to end and end a pregnancy if people want to end their own lives they're very determined
00:19:38.780to do that and i would be yeah but i don't i don't but if it came down to force right well if it came
00:19:44.760down to force sorry if it came down to force the woman would have a tougher the collection of women
00:19:50.520who you convince to uh you know work against their own existence and their children's existence which
00:19:55.680is pretty close to feminism already um men could actually step in right and and and reverse that
00:20:02.400for instance uh you know abortion is a perfect example of it women are fighting for the right to
00:20:09.060terminate their own children right legally safely is that a good thing i mean not in my view yeah i'm
00:20:13.760pro-choice okay so it's already a good thing so your hypothetical was well there could be a moment
00:20:18.600where women start terminating their own children i'm saying they're already doing that in the
00:20:23.060millions wait no no they do they do that legally but what happens when abortion is illegal what's
00:20:27.820legal though no no no but that that that goes to my point however what does what is legal assume
00:20:33.060though well that it is permitted by society and permitted and if it wasn't permitted women would do it
00:20:39.520anyway so hold on a second no no that's not that's not the point the point is when you say legal
00:20:44.080yeah you're appealing to force doctrine i'm not i'm not denying that there is some role of enforcement
00:20:49.980in society nothing anything legal assumes the patriarchy so that's the this is what i'm this is
00:20:56.140what in my opening statement oliver i want you to get is anything you think is good for women
00:21:00.140as a permission of behavior is going to be permitted and allowed by a collection of men with guns sure
00:21:07.700so my question would be because you're defining patriarchy as the that is the fact that men will
00:21:13.440always need to enforce things that men always need to i think that is a poor definition of patriarchy
00:21:19.120because what else would it be though okay well i i kind of gave a a definition at the beginning here
00:21:24.020this idea that is a general um general idea that men hold more societal institutional power
00:21:31.260things of that nature then they they write the laws they create the norms and the systems that goes
00:21:36.380beyond just mere brute force it it really is because think think about this why don't the workers of a
00:21:42.780company just on a whim all the time overthrow the ceo because it's illegal because of men well sure but
00:21:50.000they could if every single or do you think there are more people technically of the working
00:21:53.760class that if they got together they could overthrow the ceo if there was no uh legality to it like
00:22:00.820when you say ceo and company hold on hold on when you say ceo and company you're already assuming law
00:22:05.940again so you're using these terms i'm just talking about your head i know but oliver you're using terms
00:22:10.280and distinctions that are that necessitate that law already exists right that the force application
00:22:16.300already exists i'm arguing from your from your perspective it's better for you to say
00:22:20.980the patriarchy is good for feminism why because whatever you call feminism requires the patriarchy
00:22:28.160so this would be an argument that's equivalent to saying like having a like militaristic authoritarian
00:22:33.960government we have one is good for democracy uh well no that's that that's a good thing well no
00:22:39.900democracy democracy is democracy itself actually could produce authoritative government no no it can i'm
00:22:46.920correct but would you say that because it is technically possible for the military to overtake
00:22:51.800the democratic government that democracy itself doesn't exist no i'm saying democracy itself requires
00:22:58.160the force sure but the will people voting doesn't actually matter it's here i'll ask it a different
00:23:03.960way can you give me a hypothetical of where a kind of feminism could exist in the vision you have but
00:23:10.640doesn't require the collective of men using force to protect it um i think there could be examples
00:23:17.320where women have superior technology we're the ones that they're able to you know if they have a
00:23:22.720majority of the weapons we can imagine this who builds weapons i mean mostly why does it matter who
00:23:27.860necessarily because i just hold on it matters oliver because i asked you can you give me a hypothetical
00:23:32.820where women could express their feminism and exist in a feminist society or whatever you are envisioning
00:23:38.980without the the men the men are building these weapons because the men have always built the
00:23:44.820weapons no because no yes no it's not because you're appealing to the past to justify what's
00:23:49.040happening do you own a weapon what do you own a weapon i like a firearm okay yeah no i don't okay
00:23:53.820okay so larger weaponry even a firearm uh the majority a a large portion of women can't even cock a gun
00:24:02.440they can't clean a gun they can't hold on they can't break hold on they can't break down a gun
00:24:07.020okay and they can't carry larger equipment so if you're arguing that the great equalizer is military
00:24:13.740equipment from small to large that takes brute strength not only to make but to maintain and to
00:24:20.020transport and you're basically granting yourself that you're just saying like look santa came it
00:24:25.680wasn't the men who actually engineered and and move these large things around for us to use right
00:24:31.400uh remote control bombing and whatnot all these missile silos and whatnot this requires massive amount
00:24:36.980of brute strength right you're just granting yourself the fruits of the brute strength in
00:24:42.660the hypothetical and saying well it could be the case that women could just find a pile of missiles
00:24:47.600in the woods and then it's the great equalizer that's not the argument i'm saying without men
00:24:52.560how what does a woman what does a collection of women do to sustain their what does a collection of
00:24:59.760weaker men do without stronger men no that's i'm arguing for the stronger men okay so then your
00:25:05.580argument is basically that whoever is the strongest man out there who whoever has the most brute power
00:25:11.700right there they are the ones who dictate society dictate society that's right so you are grateful
00:25:17.680then to men who are stronger than you yes you are grateful to men that are stronger than you for
00:25:22.500enforcing it so why should you necessarily have rights i don't believe in rights okay i mean so why
00:25:29.220then why should your because to vote be protected why should i don't believe in vote i don't think i
00:25:33.640don't think i should vote necessarily but certainly not women because if you remember in my opener
00:25:37.800would you agree that when a collective of uh very strong men stronger than me and you right the big the
00:25:43.180big burly ones with the cross-eyed right if they don't vote would you agree that the alternative to
00:25:49.920voting would be just a rebellion or brute force if they didn't agree with the government the government
00:25:54.400i mean i think it still is they can vote and they can still use brute force i'm saying i'm not saying
00:25:58.640i'm saying that when i'm not saying they could vote i'm not saying they can't vote and then suddenly
00:26:03.740be like you know what i know i voted but i'm going to still do this i'm saying generally speaking the
00:26:08.540act of voting for men collectively aren't they saying i'm not going to rebel i don't think they're
00:26:15.320necessarily saying they're not going to rebel they're saying that i would prefer not to i think
00:26:19.540i think i can get what i want by not using fair enough i'll grant you that it's just that if they
00:26:24.880prefer not to i'm saying that the alternative is that they could right sure okay women if you switch
00:26:31.440it over to women if women's they all start voting right what are they forfeiting what do you mean
00:26:38.040what are they forfeiting if the man is forfeiting i don't think he is he is he's basically saying
00:26:43.200i'm going to vote and i'm going to hope that the outsourced uh force application uh which is the
00:26:50.340military and the justice system and everything else included right they're outsourcing their
00:26:54.280brute force now if they disagree and they decide voting isn't for you anymore and you're going to
00:26:59.900start a rebellion they could do that what i'm asking you oliver is can women do that i don't
00:27:05.740necessarily think that i don't like most women can but i don't think most men can either i don't
00:27:10.460think most men can it's not about what you're what you're doing is you're ascribing the quality
00:27:14.440of brute force to all men no i'm not they're a member of the category of male no it's um i am
00:27:19.660actually appealing to categories i'm saying i just when it comes to categories right it's like saying
00:27:24.300this like are you in a category of of beings that can think and do logic yeah can all human beings do
00:27:32.000logic not necessarily no but i'm appealing i'm appealing to to the ones that can are in a certain
00:27:37.740category what i'm saying is that category oliver is men but no no not necessarily it's never a
00:27:42.180collection of women no it could be young men why should old men get rights because young men are
00:27:46.280the ones that are defending them no no it's not it's not that who gets rights i you're making an
00:27:51.840argument you're the one affirming rights i'm not right your whole view on feminism my counter to
00:27:58.240feminism isn't about rights i don't even believe in rights okay your view is that women have rights
00:28:03.580that's good i'm asking you well why isn't why isn't it the case you think oliver that women gave
00:28:09.460themselves the right to vote why did they appeal to another body of people to get the right to vote
00:28:15.060because they're the ones who controlled society like i don't really know what yeah but i don't
00:28:19.720correct you're basically making a like a massive just is odd distinction no i didn't say the case
00:28:24.700therefore i didn't say odd i didn't say odd then i can agree with your entire descriptive claim and
00:28:28.880say yeah then that's so if it's okay but yeah but if it's descriptively true that the ones you're
00:28:35.660going to be appealing to from the woman's perspective is always a collection of strong men
00:28:40.180then your argument that uh that you're making the normative statement that we ought to pursue
00:28:46.160feminism that it's good for society what i'm saying is that anything you call feminism actually affirms
00:28:52.160the patriarchy no because you're defining patriarchy in terms of the enforcement arm that
00:28:56.900what else could it be it's not because it's not because patriarchy as i talked about before is a
00:29:01.120is a bunch of different things list one together okay i'm happy to go one at a time
00:29:05.420okay i'm happy to do that um it's it's it's typically understood as a system that advantages
00:29:10.200men over women granting them primary access across all domains stop there stop there one at a time
00:29:15.520okay is brute strength an advantage over women it not necessarily it can be but it not always is the
00:29:23.120case okay is it a advantage over women it can be but not all men are stronger than all women i
00:29:30.240understand but generally speaking if there's a collection of men and a collection of women and
00:29:34.960there's the same amount of each it's going to be the case that the collection of men even if they're
00:29:39.200weak men are going to be stronger than the women right true okay however no no but next on the list
00:29:43.780no but you're this is important you're assuming that all the men will necessarily agree to impose
00:29:49.640their will i'm not talking about what they're agreeing i'm saying they could not whether whether
00:29:53.220they agree women could kill their children it doesn't matter that's not that's then you don't
00:29:57.760have a society okay cool so everyone could pursue their own self-interest society would implode and
00:30:02.880where are we that's we're at liberalism that's what feminism is pursuing your own self-interest
00:30:07.500and your wants that's what you trained women to do and under feminism pursue your individualism
00:30:12.080there's no greater obligation for women like for instance under feminism is there any obligation to
00:30:17.420have children uh no there's no obligation for men to have children either hold on having children
00:30:22.120is not an obligation it depends on the world view but not generally just being a man yes you're not
00:30:26.920obligated this is why the ought which is your affirmative tonight does require a meta-ethical
00:30:32.200position right okay that's what i'm getting to yeah so under your view if it's the case that
00:30:36.540feminism doesn't have an ought to have children yes is it a society better let's say there was a
00:30:42.620society without feminism but it had the it it didn't affirm your idea of feminism but it produced
00:30:49.420an ought statement of obligation to have children is that society better than the feminist one
00:30:54.080no well if it survives is it better not necessarily i don't think a society surviving
00:30:59.640in which women have zero rights and or zero you know are not well off what's a right what can you
00:31:05.740define a right um an entitlement entitlement so are there any um if an entitlement is that given to
00:31:12.960someone in a large sense yeah men and women it's given who gives women entitlements society well
00:31:21.180that's pretty big well it is society we as a society decide on hold on hold on let's give it
00:31:25.560let's look at the let's look at the 19th amendment for a second okay when women started screaming some
00:31:32.240of them the minority by the way were started screaming for the the right to vote right who
00:31:37.720are they screaming to to give them the right to vote the people in who were in power who were men
00:31:42.020but you're just making a statement that was the i'm asking you why do they appeal to the men in
00:31:47.300power and not just give themselves rights because those are the people that are in power you're
00:31:51.840men they were excluded from being in power so when is it where women will be in the power position
00:31:58.020where men are asking women for rights uh when there are women who are in power did you do you think
00:32:03.980wait a second if if there is a female ceo and a man walks into her office and it's like i would
00:32:09.060like a raise is he not asking her to grant him some sort of privilege or some sort of benefit
00:32:15.300absolutely yeah but this is this is not the same category as a raise because the raise doesn't
00:32:21.680depend well actually it does it depends ultimately on force which has which appeals to men so the
00:32:27.320question for you oliver was this people it appears to people who have the ability people who have
00:32:31.820yeah people who have the ability to force to to enforce unjust or just laws so when you want a
00:32:39.880just law when when a bunch of women right when they wanted the right to vote they were asking other
00:32:46.680people to give them the right to vote that's how all rights work i understand rights work because
00:32:52.540they're enforced by brute they're by brute force every time yeah they're they requires enforcement so i
00:32:57.820don't so all men don't enforce i know it's not about all men it's that the fact that the people
00:33:03.480enforcing are going to be predominantly men and if they were predominantly women they couldn't
00:33:08.560enforce it let's switch it for a second hold on let's switch it again men want the power the right
00:33:13.440to vote right let's switch it switch the history right men want the right to vote the enforcement
00:33:19.740are are women as you see them today not as we stated if we want to flip the entirety of history no
00:33:24.800no wait a second we're not changing we're not all us equals no no you can't do that no that's not
00:33:29.140how society developed that's how hypothetical works but you can't change the hypothetical and
00:33:32.560not change the relevant variables look we would have to have society exist so that women over the
00:33:36.960entire course of history had built everything had excluded no i didn't say i didn't say men are
00:33:41.780women i'm saying in this instance in this instance okay right well that's the thing is you're
00:33:48.080actually agreeing with me that throughout history why is it that men with the brute force built all of
00:33:53.340the things like everything you see right all the big skyscrapers the tunnels the bridges underwater
00:33:59.380welders all of these things are you going to do are you going to say that it just happens to be a
00:34:04.520social construct that it happened to be men or is that a feature of biology so first off i think that
00:34:09.340there's this general idea that men built society and that that that we should that the women did not
00:34:14.640play an integral or fundamental role i wouldn't say that no no but hold on just let me finish yeah no
00:34:19.800you're good it's fine no it's i'm i'm fine with the back and forth yeah so it's okay yeah so i'm
00:34:25.480what i'm saying here is that there were there were women who made very important advancements in
00:34:30.060almost every part of a um every part of advancement of infrastructure advancement of industry that you
00:34:36.400just don't know about have some examples what do you like me to bring up no no an advancement is that
00:34:40.100a an idea i mean sure we can talk about individual okay but this is a straw man i know i didn't say
00:34:46.320they're not important i didn't say women can't think of cool things all right we're talking about
00:34:50.840society let's say this city we're in right now it's maintained it's erected maintained by mostly men
00:34:59.200sure operating on what brute force not just brute force organization and sips and ideas it's based on
00:35:07.340ideas that's fine but without without the brute force you can't have the management of the roads for
00:35:12.540instance this is why i talk about leverage okay men who run the city who actually use their force
00:35:18.780and their will to get under in tunnels and get dirty and die doing these things right okay to
00:35:23.560maintain if they suddenly said no i'm not doing this do you really think women could just step in and do
00:35:29.340all the same work no and i think that if women collectively decided they're not going to have
00:35:32.980children and kill themselves men could step in and have the children so then this is an equivalent
00:35:37.520thing no no you agree with me women and men can both withhold something that is essential that
00:35:41.880they provide to society oliver you agree with me the the opening statement that i that i made was this
00:35:48.340the leverage women have the important aspect of women in society is being mothers and raising good
00:35:56.840human beings first and foremost no yes no that that is one of the things that they can do that's the
00:36:01.700most important what's the most important thing then for under feminism the most important thing
00:36:05.000people having the choice to do what benefits they don't have the choice what do you mean they don't
00:36:10.420have the choice what person has full choice in doing what they want none of us have choices then
00:36:15.220we don't we are all a slave to the person who's stronger than us that's right so then
00:36:19.560where does this get off the ground all you're claiming is might make right no i didn't say right
00:36:24.060i'm saying descriptively it's the case i'm asking you from your perspective if it's not if we agree
00:36:29.740that the leverage men have is brute strength such that they could basically hit a button called i'm
00:36:35.900not going to work tomorrow and the city collapses and i asked you point blank could women do the same
00:36:41.480job immediately and and get the city moving again you said no but then you said women but women but
00:36:48.020women could leverage their bodies right women could kill their children i don't know that's right but
00:36:53.440what do you you're talking about people have been put into spheres women have been designated to the
00:36:57.560domestic sphere and men have been designated is that a construct what is that a construct i think
00:37:02.460largely it can be no is it i think in a certain sense it is but there is i i'm not denying that men
00:37:09.240are stronger than women generally and thus they have developed on different paths right you're just
00:37:15.320claiming that because women are i mean in a certain sense women having to be pregnant is a burden
00:37:21.620upon someone's body that that affects their ability to contribute to society in the same way if men
00:37:26.560if women weren't like sidelined by pregnancy then so there's a biological aspect i agree with okay we
00:37:31.900both agree there the biological aspect of men collectively not every individual man but
00:37:37.140collectively generally speaking men are geared towards certain behavior certain work certain
00:37:42.020kinds of things high risk things women are geared more towards something else and so if that's true
00:37:47.280this is what i'm asking you oliver under your feminist view that you're advocating for saying
00:37:52.140feminism is good for society if it's not the best thing for women under your vision of feminism if
00:37:58.780it's not the best thing for women to be at home raising good human beings using their top leverage we
00:38:06.360both agree one of their top leverage uh points is i don't think i don't think every man should become
00:38:10.300a boxer and beat the shit out of people i didn't say that i didn't say you don't need boxers for society
00:38:14.980you need people with brute with brute hold on you don't need boxers for society you need humans okay
00:38:20.520you you do need humans okay but you do need you you're saying that every man therefore would be
00:38:24.980better off utilizing their brute strength at all this isn't my positive position i'm asking you under
00:38:30.060your feminist view which you're affirming tonight so you're under cross-examination so
00:38:34.300what i'm just asking a simple question if it's not motherhood and raising the next generation of good
00:38:42.020humans what is the higher obligation for women from a feminist view from your view no one has an
00:38:49.000obligation to necessarily raise the generation the reason is because no wait i want to explain this
00:38:53.740because i think this is important and it's brought up a lot feminism has no obligations is something i've
00:38:57.440heard you say before i don't think that's true one of the obligations and one of the things that's not
00:39:02.060an obligation under feminism is to raise children because no one has an obligation to do that however
00:39:08.040you will always have people who have children in a society because people want to have kids that's
00:39:14.140just something that happens so what we should do is we should incentivize people to have children by
00:39:19.200giving them the most economic resources available the most personal freedom available so that the
00:39:24.480people can make those decisions we should not go straight to let's force women to be in the home
00:39:28.380nobody said nobody said force okay well you're using the force no no for just because i appeal
00:39:33.400descriptively to force doctrine is something that you cannot avoid in any paradigm it doesn't follow
00:39:38.820that i'm advocating to force women to have children i'm asking from your perspective if feminism is good
00:39:44.460for society yes and society requires both force and people i'm asking what's the obligatory position
00:39:52.640from your view that men and women have and are they different they don't have distinct differences okay
00:39:58.380so if there's no obligations under feminism not true there's one gender specific oh so okay so when
00:40:04.640someone um um so there's no okay so there's no obligation for men under your feminist society
00:40:11.620women to no to to enforce rights there's not not no wait there there is not an obligation is that
00:40:19.000gendered no no no there is not an obligation for individuals to enforce anything you don't have to
00:40:25.240become a police officer so what how could you argue what's good for society x is good for society
00:40:31.600society has preconditions do you agree when we refer to society we're talking about an aggregate of
00:40:37.020people living in an ordered community right i don't think society necessarily has to be ordered but i
00:40:42.300would say that well that's the definition are i'm giving us the definition you're providing but i don't
00:40:46.040think the society has to be ordered there can be a society in chaos well to say it's in chaos means
00:40:51.720it's bordered you could actually look at it and say that society's in chaos and this one's not
00:40:55.820sure i guess that's order no you're defining ordered then is just distinct
00:40:59.800then fine sure that societies are distinct and separate from each other that's fine so but
00:41:04.480if if you're saying would you aren't you arguing tonight that feminism would assume
00:41:10.880if you thought it was good that it would be ordered
00:41:13.700sure okay so what is it okay if feminism is good for society and society the way you're referring
00:41:21.360to it is ordered it requires force which is gendered and it requires duties that are tied to
00:41:29.620that force which are gendered why yeah because you're arguing for women's rights no i disagree with
00:41:34.100the first part that that this idea of enforcement is inherently gendered give me a counter example
00:41:39.540men don't have to enforce the law that's right is that the society you want to live in men will
00:41:45.560enforce law and women will enforce the law people step up no because you're arguing that if we don't
00:41:50.420tell people you have to enforce the law you you have to become a police officer then no one will step
00:41:55.340up and do that i think we can incentivize people and give them the most freedom possible and individuals
00:42:00.060will gravitate towards the org towards the towards the industries is this okay let me ask you a different
00:42:06.360way is society is a society better let's say society a has built into its meta-ethical position
00:42:14.800that it has that that men have the obligation to keep order with force and then another society that
00:42:21.600doesn't have that obligation which society is you think is better well you're assuming in the first
00:42:26.040one that that meta-ethical obligation would therefore entail that those people would follow that right well
00:42:31.100yeah well the obligation would include um potential uh legality but more so maybe social pressure of
00:42:37.820obligation um if that's exists let's say let's say it's it was a society that appealed to women's rights and
00:42:45.320there was an obligation for men to defend women and protect their rights versus your feminist uh you know
00:42:52.620hypothetical society that doesn't have any obligations ultimately what's one obligation i think people should
00:42:58.960defend defend those who are more vulnerable than they are women general no no no but women aren't
00:43:03.820just those who are more vulnerable because of course we can see that there are women who are stronger
00:43:08.080than men we can see that there are young men who are stronger than older men particular we can see
00:43:12.040yeah of course we should talk about particular well you are talking about you're making you're kind of
00:43:16.540making men and women out to be this homogenous group that they're all kind of existing in separate
00:43:20.880domains and that's just not well no i know it does how it is how it works and i'm demonstrating that
00:43:25.840generality is a perfectly fine thing to do i mean you can take a bunch of particulars add them up and
00:43:32.380come up with a generalization that's just basic induction so inductively isn't it the case that
00:43:38.200it's best it seems to be the best uh way to do it that men it just so happens to be the case that men
00:43:46.020are in the positions to enforce and defend and go to war you know why is it that men and women have
00:43:51.940different prison systems why do men and women have different prison systems i'm fully in favor
00:43:56.640of i know but couldn't you say couldn't you say your honor um you're just there are women who are
00:44:01.680some women who are stronger than men and there are some men you know and vice versa and stuff and
00:44:06.860appeal to these particulars but isn't it the case that a prison system is a perfect example of the
00:44:11.980generality that i'm actually arguing from sure but now you're making ought claims on what basis are
00:44:16.640you making ought claims i didn't make an ought claim well you're saying men and women ought to be
00:44:19.680indifferent i said descriptively the case there's a reason why they are but that reason is based in
00:44:24.660an ought claim well of course it is do we have a duty to keep women away from uh outside of men's
00:44:29.540prisons do we have a duty yeah i mean i think a society from your point of view i don't i don't
00:44:34.860think i don't think i think what you're doing is you're specifying duties really specifically the
00:44:39.500duty is not to keep women out of men's prisons the duty is to um keep um vulnerable people who are
00:44:46.640more vulnerable women not always necessarily i don't i don't like i don't i don't think we
00:44:51.760who commits more aggressive acts against of course it's men i'm not arguing that it's not men but i
00:44:56.580think that in principle we should keep um a very you know a man that is weaker away from a woman who
00:45:02.820is a serial killer well that's a particular i'm talking about prisons though so why is it in your
00:45:08.560ideal feminist society why is it that if you're fighting for equality why is it you still have
00:45:14.240separate prisons what do you mean i'm not well here's the thing that i put in my feminism thing
00:45:18.680we're not denying that there are disparities or differences we don't deny that there's disparities
00:45:23.000or differences between groups of men that doesn't mean that we think that i still ask you why though
00:45:27.760the question was why in your society are you obligated from your perspective you're arguing tonight
00:45:35.120to keep prisons separate wait who is obligated society as a whole is your is your ideal society look
00:45:41.520it's oliver's world right now oliver is saying feminism is good for society that means there's a
00:45:46.720type of society that appeals to feminism and practices it i'm asking you from an outsider pretend
00:45:51.740i'm like uh like i'm visiting and i'm like why do you guys separate your prisons what's your answer
00:45:58.860uh we should i think we should largely separate prisons because yeah there are differences between
00:46:03.100men and women and i don't think and i think that men you know if men are especially men who are
00:46:07.120violent especially men who are in prison who have shown a uh lack of care for the safety of those
00:46:11.920around them i think we should also ensure that men aren't hurting other men in prison either like
00:46:16.840okay i don't know like i so now i'm going to ask you if you argue that women are generally
00:46:23.060collectively more vulnerable than men and that's why is good reason i'm not arguing that there aren't
00:46:28.060some weak men that uh could be protected from stronger men but we're talking about male female here
00:46:34.460why though why are we talking why don't we go we because because you are you are creating two
00:46:38.520categories and i'm saying that are they do they exist of course the categories exist but you are
00:46:43.280making the claim that because why is weaker than x right general rule as general rule why is we
00:46:48.760therefore we have an obligation i mean obligation we should you know have separate prisons or
00:46:54.120something like that why can't we do that inner intra-gender if that makes sense well the if you
00:47:00.060agree and if you agree that there's a good reason to have women and men's prisons separated then i'm
00:47:07.480going to ask you where where's the threshold where you no longer follow that rule outside of the prison
00:47:14.300what do you i'm saying i'm asking where else in society are you willing to separate the women for
00:47:21.200the same reason willing to separate women for the same reason yeah i don't i don't i don't know
00:47:26.100for instance let me give you a particular example is it better in your ideal feminist society that a
00:47:32.060weak woman is at home with her children and her husband at 11 30 p.m or signing out of her penthouse
00:47:39.620office with her lanyard coming down the elevator at 11 30 p.m potentially uh the the victim of a of a
00:47:46.680male crime i think you are reducing what is best for women like a homogenous level or a group that's
00:47:53.760just one example no i don't what's better well you're saying what's better because you're assuming
00:47:59.580what this woman is going to like be assaulted or something well no and i don't and yeah i would
00:48:03.100rather not have a woman get assaulted of course what's more likely though no no but the solution
00:48:07.420to that problem is not to say okay we need to keep all women in the home because men can't stop
00:48:11.420graping them like that's not really how we should operate well no well actually the fact that it's
00:48:18.340mostly men graping women goes to my point that the specific the the specific argument tonight
00:48:25.060it it comes back to the force doctrine every single time it's never the case where you're going to be
00:48:31.480collectively writing rules and and um basically making society around this view that that women
00:48:38.180that we should protect men from women ever right we should protect men from everyone but no no i'm
00:48:44.740saying generally speaking we don't structure society in a way that gears toward the concern of
00:48:50.600uh women aggressing men it's usually the other way around right i mean i think we should do both
00:48:55.060like i don't know i feel like a consequence of the patriarchy in these norms that we have
00:48:59.480is that men can't be victims of abuse men can't be physically abused by women and i think that's a
00:49:04.120problem we should not have that if a man is persistent to is is subject to persistent physical
00:49:09.360abuse that should be taken seriously for by a woman do you think that with enough manpower we
00:49:15.520can take down the patriarchy with enough manpower i think with enough societal organization with enough
00:49:22.380like i don't know yeah work we can do it of course we can restructure society of course we can restructure
00:49:28.380society so with enough manpower we can restructure away from the with enough change we can we can get
00:49:34.560away from the patriarchy i don't know like you're arguing that like because men have to do it therefore
00:49:38.680it's invalid or something well that's kind of what i'm asking is like if i ask someone with enough
00:49:45.440manpower and resources could you take down the thing that's literally going to be mirroring what you're
00:49:52.460aggregating in resources in other words to take down the patriarchy you need to find a bunch of strong
00:50:00.200people to fight against this bunch of strong people and the bunch of strong people you're going to find
00:50:04.980are going to look exactly like the the the collection of people you're going to be fighting against so
00:50:10.320sure it's never the case where you go let's revolt against this this this tyrannical body of men who are
00:50:18.420impeding on our rights you never go out and knock on the doors and grab the women first i mean
00:50:24.400in order to fight or yeah sure what what you also wouldn't grab weak men like well no you would you
00:50:30.540would why not why because they're still stronger than the women not if it no no no no you're saying
00:50:35.820i i think there are i think the the echelon of like weakest men out there would absolutely be less
00:50:40.660strong than than than the average woman i'm not sure if you take the same body frame if you knock on a
00:50:47.460door well now okay and it's like the same height right and even weight if you're gonna go to war
00:50:53.740you're gonna grab the the dude it's not just because of force though would you agree that men
00:50:59.580are are more likely to exert aggression even for bad reasons than women sure yeah okay so if you're
00:51:08.680going to war you would want someone who is who is able capable and willing to exert their aggression
00:51:15.620on another aggressor whereas if if it's generally the case women are a little more timid why are they
00:51:21.940though why are they more like likely to exercise their aggression i think this is biology i don't
00:51:27.380know i don't i don't necessarily think that's the case do you have a son do i have a son no i do okay
00:51:31.780so are you saying that um well you're raising your son now well no i'm saying that um of course
00:51:37.840your son's gonna reflect your worldview well no no no no a three a three-year-old and even beforehand
00:51:43.300you're gonna notice when you become a father god willing which is anti-feminist um you're going to
00:51:49.460see that there's a clear distinction between boys and girls in their very uh instinct and and the
00:51:55.600way they even behave and express themselves and the aggressive ones the males are aggressive you
00:52:00.780just see it so right in front of you that is not necessarily the case for all boys what i didn't say
00:52:05.240all i said generally speaking wait but you're also raising your son specifically everything you do is
00:52:11.300in a gendered sense you're raising your son to be what your version you don't think we should
00:52:15.240affirm gendered uh gendered uh society i don't necessarily think we should tell people that
00:52:21.000there's a correct way to be a man or a correct way to be a woman so no i don't think that we
00:52:25.820should raise our sons to be aggressive to show their you know like like i don't know like that
00:52:30.860that aggression is a good way to get what you want or something like well i'm not saying that but
00:52:35.340ultimately aggression and violence is an excellent way to get what you want um it works better it's
00:52:41.400it's more critically uh it's a critical path would you rather your son uh primarily when he has a
00:52:47.460disagreement with someone at school or something like that get into a fistfight with the kid or
00:52:51.580would you rather have him have the communication skills to be able to talk that disagreement out
00:52:56.420well in that instance the in that instance the ideal is to keep them uh in in a system right
00:53:03.300then to fight we're not talking about whether or not violence is useful every time now just
00:53:08.580change it change it change it more often useful or we're talking about maintain the reason this
00:53:13.620came up is we're talking about maintaining society for instance like let's take another thing would i
00:53:19.360rather would i rather the security guard at my school use force to stop an aggressor or talk to
00:53:27.160them nicely like the teacher does so wait it would depend on the situation because right no no but i do
00:53:32.660absolutely think that in a lot of these situations de-escalation can be effective and be more
00:53:37.920effective than just violence is great de-escalation no it's not yes it is you're are you serious wait a
00:53:44.040second you're one assuming that the violence will be successful in its in its aim and two that it won't
00:53:48.880have other ramifications i think a society that always deals with its problems violently will
00:53:54.780actually have worse consequences i don't think we should encourage kids to beat the shit out of
00:53:59.900nobody saying that every time but that's what you're saying what violence is a very effective way
00:54:03.580to get what you want i didn't say they ought i described that it is you keep confusing ought and
00:54:08.680descriptions first off i actually don't think it is because it can become self-defeating if your way
00:54:13.440of always resolving conflict is resorting to violence okay people will be less likely to associate with you
00:54:19.160people will be less likely to really around you yeah really okay so but if you extrapolate that out
00:54:24.440because we're talking about societies right now is society better with feminism is feminism good
00:54:30.560for society right the reason this is such an important topic this the violence and force aspect
00:54:36.600is because society itself no matter how you try to poetically describe your vision of of feminism
00:54:44.620it's always going to be reliant on the threat of force and so at this mass scale level oliver
00:54:52.360you're going to be an advocate for a pointing gun right at the society and saying if you
00:54:59.520aggress over here force is going to come in that's what the violation of a right is right
00:55:04.200i don't think that's how i would want society to you don't want if you want society with rights which
00:55:09.880is in your opening feminism individuals having the same equal rights equal opportunities if you want
00:55:15.360that you have to enforce it of course you do if you want that and you have to enforce it you need
00:55:21.920you need to appeal to inequality it's a contradiction what do you mean you have to appeal to inequality
00:55:27.940everyone has to appeal to inequality all the time no specifically with sexes no no wait a second no
00:55:33.760because then every man has to appeal to someone who is stronger than him who's a man unless yeah but
00:55:40.420unless okay then all men are at the mercy of the man who is that's right patriarchy that's
00:55:46.100descriptively placed now now that you admit that that's actually true and i conceded that that's true
00:55:51.260why does that matter i'm saying it matters because if you advocate for a feminist society
00:55:56.980you're advocating you're actually i would argue that rights themselves feminism is actually sexist
00:56:03.880ironically because feminism assuming rights assumes there's a body of men who are going to defend those
00:56:10.500rights they don't have the obligation to do that of course people have an obligation to defend
00:56:15.480those under feminism why why yeah i just think in general everyone should have an obligation to
00:56:20.580who cares who cares what you think if you don't have any sort of empathy or anyone else other
00:56:25.080than empathy no but empathy isn't it dude i've seen a video you did empathy empathy is an involuntary
00:56:31.720signal that is perhaps what someone else is experiencing that doesn't tell you what you ought to do
00:56:37.520you're in a debate now arguing feminism is good for society i bring in what's necessary to keep the
00:56:43.760good in society and highlight force i ask you point blank under your feminist view
00:56:48.660do men of the obligation morally ethically to uphold law that provides the playground you call feminism
00:56:57.920feminist freedom men society in general has an obligation i guess to maintain itself but it doesn't
00:57:05.740follow from that that every man has an obligation to uphold society i didn't say every man well then
00:57:11.340then this doesn't have any bearing it does bear it does have bearing because we're talking about a
00:57:15.560collective right we're already we're choosing the people who already exist right now let's choose
00:57:21.040the stronger men let's choose there's a bunch of strong men right now the men that can actually
00:57:24.200there's a bunch of men right now who are really strong yes they're in uniforms yes yep yep they have
00:57:29.740to be trained they're in uniforms sure cops probably too unhealthy for my my taste but let's just say
00:57:35.120they're all fit okay they're in a position where they come in and there's a there's a a man or a
00:57:42.000woman being aggravated assaulted by someone okay under your system of feminism because that has to
00:57:47.980be from a feminist view why does why does the collective of mostly men who are the enforcement
00:57:53.360arm why do they have an obligation to defend anybody because you shouldn't want to see people hurt like i
00:58:00.080don't know how to i don't know i don't know how to appeal that's like saying like you should like
00:58:03.380licorice ice cream no i don't because i don't i think i think seeing someone suffering and wanting
00:58:08.500that not to exist is different than ice cream flavor no what do you like no you're no no i think
00:58:14.500you're appealing to an ultimate ultimately more morally relativistic no you're acting no no you
00:58:19.060are you're appealing to moral this idea of moral relativism no it's your view no it's not my view
00:58:22.880of course it is i am not a moral relativist you have to be no i don't have to be absolutely not okay
00:58:27.160well how do you would you like me to tell you how i why is feminism morally good why is it morally
00:58:32.980good so we can appeal to for example i think that moral objectivism can be defended on the basis
00:58:39.500the same way that like um what is it called epistemic objectivism can be defended basically
00:58:44.960this idea that i know that the world around me exists how do i know that the world around me exists
00:58:50.140do i really know that the world around me exists no i wouldn't grant that but go ahead okay well so
00:58:54.540we don't we don't really we're trusting our senses to tell us that the world around us exists
00:58:59.540i'm intuitively trusting that you are sitting in front of me with a microphone i have a microphone
00:59:04.000i have my ipad but glass of water here all of that i could be wrong i could indeed be wrong i could be
00:59:09.760a brain in a vat but i'm trusting my intuitive sense that my senses are telling me correct information
00:59:15.100i'm gonna great i'm gonna grant you an escape from solipsism i'm gonna grant you your sense data
00:59:19.680how do you get a moral statement from sense data because moral statements largely are sense-based
00:59:26.460i can't i can't give you a you can't really give me moral objectivism either
00:59:30.980wait wait wait wait wait my view is not on the chopping block you're the affirmative you're the
00:59:36.200affirmative we can get into it but the affirmative is feminism is good for society that's what you
00:59:41.920came today right it leads to people let's say let's say my view christianity let's just what if it
00:59:47.460was just terrible for society it still wouldn't change the the position you're in you would have to
00:59:52.860argue why feminism is good for society so if you're going to sense data and you're saying well
00:59:58.580i use sense data to navigate the world and i evaluate the sense data it also tells me
01:00:05.380unjustified killing is wrong no it doesn't yeah why not look why doesn't it does your eye tell you that
01:00:10.520this is black um yeah it does okay so black has a frequency reflective uh aspect of light sure i could
01:00:19.280be wrong yeah right right but the frequency exists right the same frequency of having an intuition on
01:00:24.800a moral level no no no hold on a second the reason i asked about the microphone is that black red the
01:00:30.780spectrum of colors the frequency of light that all comes from white it reflects differently and so that
01:00:37.060maintains even if you and i see things slightly different the thing that means what if i say it's
01:00:41.080not black that maintains well i would say it's i would say it's a light a dark gray okay then what
01:00:46.000if i say that it's white you could understand well if you said it was white if you said it was white
01:00:51.240then we would appeal to some other people's uh views so we can appeal to other people's views so
01:00:55.580if that sense data no no if one person says that murder is okay and everyone else disagrees and says
01:01:00.320that it's wrong we can appeal to them and say you're wrong wait a second in the same way that i
01:01:04.100wait a second are you arguing so wait how is that not subjectivism from your position position what do
01:01:09.180you i think that it is as objective as we can get oh so you're saying it's not objective i because i don't
01:01:15.980think we can have a hundred percent this is what i'm asking you i wouldn't have a hundred percent
01:01:19.680certainty on anything where in the instance of a person deleting another person did you where in
01:01:25.620the sense data itself sure the person is a size they have hair they have a shirt on or not this
01:01:31.700these are all features of reality that you're pointing to the external world where in that are
01:01:37.200you perceiving morality where am i perceiving morality the sense that i get the intuitive sense that
01:01:42.340i get out but it's not the sense data though it can be absolutely i would see it wait a second
01:01:46.400no hold on i would see is this moral what is this moral um having water this cup can you determine
01:01:53.260this cup is it moral or not uh if you were to throw it at me i could no it wouldn't be the cup that was
01:01:58.620immoral sure it wouldn't but what what would matter about that so what i'm pointing to is you said
01:02:03.840because now we're in meta ethics because if you're saying feminism is good for society if you're saying
01:02:09.500that's good for society you're making a meta ethical statement about the good i'm asking from
01:02:14.620your view where what it what grounds the good and you said sense data so but the thing is you can't
01:02:20.640point to anything in the world that occurs as an event and look at the event itself and get and
01:02:26.860retrieve empirically why not the good why not well you're claiming it how where is it i see something
01:02:33.080happen and i and i have an intuitive sense about it okay someone sees something else and they have an
01:02:37.700intuitive sense that is justified and you disagree okay absolutely and who's wins wait a second but
01:02:41.800that's the same problem empirically no i say that's why if i say that's white and you say that's not
01:02:46.020how how are they how are they that's not the same but how are they different because this is this is
01:02:50.340actual sense data no no this is actual sense the opinion about what this is is not whether or not
01:02:56.960it's good or not this is odd this is is this is a guilt this is hume's guillotine this is like
01:03:03.260this is like describing things into the good right this is a philosophical problem that you can't
01:03:09.960bridge is odd i get the is out for right but why why would if you know that i'm aware of that because
01:03:15.160we at some point you have to assert a moral claim that you can't further back up they have to bottom
01:03:21.660out somewhere so they have to bottom then oliver why would you even use sense data why don't you just
01:03:25.920say regardless of seeing anything i have a feeling what if someone described something you didn't see
01:03:31.840anything wait a second but that's still sense data you hear it from them you hear their story you
01:03:36.080hear that it evokes a response in you so yeah and then that's a response okay so the same way i see
01:03:41.540that okay then how do you argue with let's say a nation predominantly held like a christian view
01:03:48.260that women that feminism was immoral and they out they outnumbered you would you just submit
01:03:54.860no you can't well you can't you just make fine then yeah whoever has the most power automatically
01:03:59.180you mean force but that's a descriptive claim of course whoever has the most power
01:04:03.500is in holding all else equal mind you we have to hold everything else equal in that scenario because
01:04:08.340just having brute force doesn't necessarily mean you are going to win well not necessarily if someone's
01:04:14.000better organized if they have better access to resources they would still need some aspect of
01:04:19.380force but not but it's not ultimate it's not like you know it's we don't add up the who has the
01:04:24.280most strength and least strength and then determine that's what if you agree if you agree that if you
01:04:29.200have a feminist view and i have an anti-feminist view the ultimate descriptor i'm not saying might
01:04:34.860is right i'm saying might is it just is and i don't disagree okay so if might just is and we both agree
01:04:42.400that might is is in fact a gendered statement i'm arguing that feminism itself relies on a view it relies
01:04:52.100on a part of reality that's antithetical to the ideal of feminism that that feminism itself in
01:04:59.200practice rights privileges all of these things you're adding to women right in their in their in
01:05:05.700their life that they are granted are granted by stronger people that are merely allowing them
01:05:12.340to have them fine then that's the same thing that's a that's a patriarchy no wait a second no wait
01:05:17.060that's you can make the same argument within a gender you are separating into men and women why
01:05:23.100can't i divide men up and say that yeah we do stronger men okay well then i don't that's in favor
01:05:29.280of a patriarchy though if men look if men win against other men it's still a patriarchy i but we
01:05:34.900shouldn't base it on the enforcement oliver let me just i just want you to concede if men take over
01:05:39.860other men it's still a patriarchy that's not what defines patriarchy because it's not the enforcement
01:05:44.340it's not what men could do that defines whether it's a patriarchy the same way we are not a
01:05:49.160militaristic state authoritarian state just because the military could if they want overthrow democracy
01:05:55.660well no they're allowing it not to be sure so then are we it's an allowance no fine then are we would
01:06:02.220it be correct to describe our country right now as a militaristic authoritarian regime potentially i
01:06:08.720would say that rights themselves are fairly authoritarian just to assuming them like like
01:06:14.860for instance people say often maybe you've argued with theis oliver where you're like i'm totally fine
01:06:20.700with what you believe just don't force your beliefs on me right have you said that to someone no i haven't
01:06:24.860okay but you've heard someone say that right i have i think it's stupid right do you agree that you
01:06:28.920would it's actually probably good thing to force your beliefs on people if you i think oh it would
01:06:33.940depend on what you mean by force but i think i i think if someone believes something i don't know why
01:06:37.580they wouldn't want to if they believe it to be correct right i don't know why they wouldn't want
01:06:40.580to share that belief and have others adopt what they view as the true well not even share i let's
01:06:45.080say let's say i agree with you if if you understand if someone held the belief and they truly believed
01:06:51.220it not only would they want to share that belief uh and have other potentially believe it but meet
01:06:56.780others who already believe it the next step would simply be why wouldn't they i don't know take
01:07:02.640positions of of government and legislative uh office seats and say well i love my view so much
01:07:09.640and i've i've i've gained so many people around me who love my view why wouldn't i just use the
01:07:15.560enforcement arm isn't the ultimate goal here like even in this debate even in this debate pizza or if
01:07:21.260i love pizza i know to bring the government into that's superficial i was not because it's the same
01:07:25.840similar type of view you could extrapolate it that far if you want and that would be ridiculous
01:07:29.900would you say it's ridiculous for someone who's like i like pizza this much i like cheese pizza i
01:07:34.260would like everyone to like cheese pizza if people don't like cheese pizza because i think it's correct
01:07:38.480and i think it's the best i'm saying i'm going to enforce everyone no regardless if i want that i'm
01:07:44.460saying that that's actually possible yeah but we would look upon that person as what that's fine if
01:07:49.840you know but it would be weird yeah but call it i understand we both agree that would be weird i'm not
01:07:55.660debating whether or not we agree on things that are weird what we're debating tonight is like
01:08:00.320the foundation of feminism rests on something that's counter descriptive to feminism no yes if
01:08:08.300feminism look i'll do it again feminism is the movement away from men in power is that better than
01:08:14.380patriarchy it's the movement away from men in power specifically men men inherently having power
01:08:22.020dominant yeah the dominant collective because they're men being excluded from that women's rights
01:08:26.460is a feminist movement it's yeah okay so if women's rights is a feminist movement away from
01:08:35.440the movement of men in power why does women's rights require the thing that they're opposing
01:08:42.780wait because you can just because someone has power doesn't mean they're exercising it against you
01:08:49.000like i don't i don't see like you're you're saying like there's always going to be a man in charge
01:08:52.960therefore there's going to be a collection of in a society that's ordered that has any kind of law
01:08:58.020or or say rights which are which are privileges or entitlements without any duties in this case
01:09:04.960feminism is a movement away from men in power women's rights is a feminist movement a supposedly
01:09:13.180against this power structure and yet they're against men though i know but it's a no it's not
01:09:18.820against no no you got to follow this line though i'm not saying they hate men or whatever i'm saying
01:09:22.940that the actual movement to affirm and defend and protect rights they're asking daddy they're asking
01:09:31.700daddy for an allowance no they're asking society in general no society's opinion doesn't matter when
01:09:37.220the force comes in sure the force does come in but what it's the only thing we're talking about
01:09:41.080but here's the thing that i'm i'm running into the the problem is you were assuming that men
01:09:46.000will act this way that men will do this that men will act as a collective to enforce their will
01:09:52.760necessarily i think i'm saying that i think it's i think if i think i think social is a look i don't
01:09:58.600think we automatically tell or i don't think we should and i hope you're not raising your son to
01:10:02.180say if someone has a toy and you really want that toy go over there and take it from them depends what
01:10:06.440the toy is that could be good for them actually you know what i mean like it could be good for you
01:10:11.200and me is like look look let's just hypothetically hold on oliver oliver is it possible that there's
01:10:17.840an instance that of necessary growth of boys battling it out sure of course but we're talking
01:10:23.640in generalities because you're you're saying that i can't appeal to the fact that there are men that
01:10:27.860are weaker than women to invalidate the claim that like this forced doc wasn't the question wasn't your
01:10:33.860question well just because a collective of men could take over it doesn't matter it doesn't mean
01:10:38.880that men will take over yeah they won't you ever debated anarchists i have not i mean i've heard
01:10:44.260their okay i just want to i want to put this on you pretend pretend you and i are debating against
01:10:49.100a third person who's an anarchist for a second you're we're on the same team for a second and i say
01:10:53.260i ask them why do you think anarchy is possible and they say well because most people are passive and
01:11:00.100don't want to you know use their force and their will to control people yeah and then they ask me
01:11:04.920why do you think anarchy doesn't work i i answer the same exact thing because most people don't use
01:11:13.500force but the the small group that does that does want to use their force they will why can't there
01:11:19.380be another group that uses their force contrary to that in support are they made up of men sure
01:11:26.260okay some of them can be and some of them patriarchy for the win no but but that's not how we should
01:11:30.920define what a society is just by who makes okay the majority define a society whatever whatever
01:11:37.740ordered thing you is that fine with you can come up with one that you like better i don't find it can
01:11:42.000be ordered i agree that there has to be some sort of order to society i'm not disagreeing with now
01:11:46.760would you agree that order supposes force i guess the threat of force sure but the threat has to
01:11:56.120be able to be actualized right ultimately like if you call their bluff over and over sure yeah fine
01:12:01.260it has to be actualized this is what i'm saying and i don't know how many times more times i can
01:12:05.840drive this home is that your vision of feminism being rights equal opportunities you're basically
01:12:12.300saying society is in a place where females should be more liberated to be in all sorts of different
01:12:19.900areas okay that's what you're really arguing you're arguing that society is essentially which i kind
01:12:25.220of agree is an amusement park that's already been built and maintained largely by men right you're
01:12:32.140just adding a police element and what you're saying is feminism is disney world they should be able to
01:12:37.680ride on every ride and then i go everyone should have access to the ride i know but who enforces that
01:12:43.460everyone has access to the rides men it's society in general and you are right that it is primarily
01:12:49.140going to be so would you concede would you concede that your vision of feminism actualized requires
01:12:55.340something antithetical to feminism no it is not antithetical because just saying that men should do
01:13:00.900the right thing and men should be in favor of these things is not against feminism i don't see how that's
01:13:06.040no i didn't say should i said well that's your other problem is do they have an obligation but the
01:13:10.620bigger problem is is it actually a necessity that men collectively defend women's rights i think it is
01:13:17.320it is it is a necessity that society defends the rights of those who are less vulnerable you keep
01:13:22.340saying society okay it can't be random people in society you're right that it was sure okay well you
01:13:29.020concede for the audience then that your vision of feminism requires by necessity the actualization
01:13:36.120and the threat of stronger people who are predominantly men
01:13:39.700sure okay so feminism requires men in power feminism requires men to support feminist goals
01:13:50.880in power it's an allowance system everything is an allowance system like we're bargaining with people
01:13:57.520who are stronger and have more power than we do in order to get what we want so that means feminism
01:14:01.800the way you're describing it relies wholly every aspect that any kind of cherries you want to put on
01:14:07.800top like any amenities extra extra whipped cream on the feminist boat ultimately you're asking and
01:14:15.000women today are still asking please stronger collection of men allow us to do xyz right i think it's it's
01:14:23.620asked yeah it's asking society not to hurt them so is that yeah but that that's an that's an inequality
01:14:29.440i'm not arguing that women are as strong as men i'm not trying to argue that as a collection that
01:14:35.700they're that they're equal in every aspect yeah but you said equal opportunities of course do women
01:14:41.100have the equal opportunity to defend or take other people's rights if you're talking like all
01:14:49.280everything all else equal or are we talking like they they can have certain abilities to do that in
01:14:54.720terms of the weaponry that they have in terms of well if of the organization of society that they
01:14:58.700have like i don't i think that you're assuming that we live in a state of nature which we don't
01:15:03.220currently live in a state of nature no i still think the nature bleeds in i i know what you're
01:15:07.640saying that we live in a state of luxury are you saying like decadence a little bit it's not like
01:15:12.700it's like brute it's not like brutality of the wilderness right sure because of men
01:15:17.600because that's men built structures built concrete jungles you know they they built underground a lot of it
01:15:27.300systems okay but a fair amount of that was the only reason we're not in the jungle is because of men
01:15:32.500you do realize that a collection of men together without like knowing like how a building is made
01:15:37.940you can't just pull like a bunch of men together and say build this building they're not going to
01:15:42.140know how to do that i understand you need engineers but that's irrelevant because if without if you say
01:15:47.580without the engineer you can't build a building well there are people who've built buildings without
01:15:52.260insane levels of engineering i'm not saying that but i'm saying to build the society that we have
01:15:56.480right now to maintain it you need sure brute force and you can't fix anything what does it have
01:16:01.320well we're back to the leverage if men can leverage their brute force so i gave the example of voting
01:16:09.320that when collective of men vote they're basically saying oh you know what i'm gonna vote even though
01:16:15.560the alternative i don't want to do the alternative but the alternative could be that i get my all my
01:16:20.900friends with our guns and overthrow if we can we'll start a war or whatever why can't women get
01:16:25.080together with all their friends who are men and do that what you're saying men can appeal to other
01:16:30.440men to enforce their own rights why can't women do the same thing men can collectively do that
01:16:36.220without women women can't do it without men i don't think that's necessarily true it is absolutely true
01:16:41.140there's no women there's no collective of women who could if that was true uh some of what you would
01:16:47.080think there are the worst uh places in in the world in regards to a woman's experience in the
01:16:52.540standard they can't so take over the men dude i think that they could as you're talking about
01:16:58.660leverage you know the power that they do have which is that system i'm not denying but there's
01:17:04.300biological differences between men and women i don't see kind of what argument you're getting i think
01:17:09.100that women are largely in a sense many women are complicit in the patriarchal structure that we have
01:17:14.880and help to uplift it good there is a war yeah but but i'm saying that that it is not all just
01:17:20.400brute force there's an ideological component here there's women who believe in this system and will
01:17:25.380back men up on it i understand that i'm not i'm not saying that doesn't exist i'm saying if you had
01:17:30.540all of that stuff exist they just wouldn't do it no none of it matters uh if if you don't have
01:17:35.400force enforcing it if every woman in society collectively all of them which is an impossible
01:17:41.060hypothetical because all women are not going to agree on something and all men are not going to agree
01:17:44.000on something if all women you know decided immediately to disagree with all men yeah do
01:17:49.000you think all men would stand strong in that disagreement and be like no you're my slave
01:17:53.220now or would some of them be like wow my wife is coming to me and saying she doesn't like disagree
01:17:57.100about what though like the way the way society's structured yeah i would say you know what the men
01:18:02.040would say what that i would get all the men to collectively get together you can't no i no look
01:18:07.800like if all the women collectively got together and screeched into the ether and went we don't like
01:18:13.600it anymore that's basically every women's march by the way um what men like to do from the sidelines
01:18:20.000in the houses that they built is say what are you going to do about it hold on but then that's just
01:18:26.160being like fuck you i don't give a shit about you well in a funny way no no it's not saying we don't
01:18:30.300give a shit because the people we're talking about are misguiding and they're misguided with
01:18:36.260what their their uh their leverage is so women's leverage is not marching in the street holding
01:18:42.000signs until things change even though uh let's say the 18th amendment before the 19th amendment
01:18:47.440before they could vote they did have a moral leverage so i actually agree with you that women
01:18:52.120do have some sort of uh i don't want to call it manipulation in a pejorative sense but they have
01:18:57.560the ability back then by the way they had the ability to point out let's say moral uh issues right
01:19:05.460point out degeneracy point out uh things that were indecent women have a sense about we call
01:19:10.780we call them karens now right back in the day before they were given uh the right to vote the
01:19:16.72018th amendment they actually used their moral leverage it within society because men still uh revered
01:19:23.820women and their opinions about certain things because they had a specific place in their in their home
01:19:29.480and in society men still do that you're never going to get all men to ignore the interests of all
01:19:34.260women i understand i'm not saying i'm saying even majority no i'm saying that without men actualizing
01:19:41.140whatever the request is it's just a grievance i'm not denying that if the society does not follow
01:19:46.140through on what the grievances are then sure you keep oliver you keep swapping i understand why you're
01:19:53.040doing this it's fine but i'm going to correct you every time you can't swap out when you we what we
01:19:58.820really mean is a collection of men specifically and you keep saying society to ambiguate it i'm going
01:20:04.860to keep disambiguating it because it drives the point home if there's a collection of people who
01:20:10.500think society should be xyz and they want to actualize it that is force they're going to develop
01:20:17.480laws they're going to develop all sorts of systems you're going to require brute force what i'm saying
01:20:22.620is that's descriptively inequality why because in your opening as you move away from feminism god
01:20:30.840willing um at least take out equal opportunities because that's not even true for men no i'm not
01:20:36.960but i'm not saying that everyone like because everyone should be given the opportunity to given
01:20:43.140by who dude so don't say society again why i don't say society but it's not i don't see all that's
01:20:49.540relevant okay it is relevant look i look at the world through a descriptive lens that it's a page
01:20:54.660it's patriarchal and it's hierarchical i'm not saying it's an it's a ought that might is good
01:21:00.560always might sometimes is good but let's look at it as a house right let's say you're the father
01:21:05.660again god willing i'm throwing this out there oliver the father you have five kids beautiful wife big
01:21:12.180out big old house from being a lawyer okay the kids are the women in this instance i don't just just
01:21:19.220just just it's just an analogy okay yeah okay the kids are screaming i want the house this way i
01:21:24.720want they're screaming loud they made signs they march every morning in front of the breakfast nook
01:21:28.880okay okay right you're like sit down i've got have breakfast um if they equal the the the protesters
01:21:36.780right in this instance isn't it ultimately oh who is it ultimately going to be up to in the house
01:21:42.840whether they change the house or not but they change the house if they change they're screaming to
01:21:47.240change the house right who's ultimately going to going to decide whether it's going to happen or
01:21:52.200not sure the person who has the power i'm not disagreeing so you agree in the analogy it's a
01:21:57.340good analogy because the women in society don't have the equal opportunity or power to change society
01:22:02.580they need to get the ears of men they need to somehow use other forms of leverage but it's never
01:22:09.380going to be identical to power what i'm saying to you i think we agree men's leverage is brute force
01:22:15.720do they use it correctly or not that's a whole other debate right is it just or not women have
01:22:21.960the leverage of being the potential mothers and wives and and the the childbears and the people
01:22:27.560raising the children my view is that women's high the the best place a woman a collection of women i'm
01:22:34.460not saying all of them and i'm not saying force i'm saying the best thing for to advocate for women
01:22:39.440the truest form of real feminism would be to appeal to the feminine nature and what they're
01:22:45.200really good at which is not fighting and making people bleed it's raising children why are you why
01:22:50.820is that not feminism why are you dichotomizing those though because you're saying that society is is
01:22:54.940fundamentally dichotomized into fighting and killing each other and raising children uh i don't
01:23:00.620think that those are the only two things i didn't say that but but then why can't women and men i think
01:23:06.020women and men should pursue other things that aren't just fighting and killing people and raising
01:23:12.240children because there is so much in between there that both men and women i'm not saying they can't
01:23:17.100do these things i'm saying i'm trying to prioritize that's why i'm gonna i'm gonna try to you have to be
01:23:21.560a little charitable with the dichotomy because i'm looking at urgency and priority okay i'm not saying
01:23:27.700that there isn't a list of things underneath that they can't want might want to do and not do or
01:23:32.160whatever i'm saying ultimately for a society to exist you need two things three things law and
01:23:37.880order which we already establish requires men primarily for the most part obligations and duties
01:23:44.320still a little bit blurry on your side of how what provides obligations and duties but then people
01:23:50.120human beings do you know that we like i know that you mentioned it we do have a fertility crisis we
01:23:55.220have a birth rate okay would you can i'm not going to blame everything on feminists but would you
01:24:00.220concede that you've at least witnessed pretty high octane um uh propaganda from a feminist view
01:24:09.780against mothering and being a mother in the home as a requirement yes not as a requirement yes as a
01:24:16.960requirement no like obligation that women have and if they don't do it they are failing as women yes i
01:24:22.780have never i have very i have seen very little of feminists saying you can't have kids majority of
01:24:28.980feminists and people do have children i'm not saying can't i'm saying what's being presented as
01:24:34.540strong femme do you see mostly mothers or do you see hold on girl bosses just answer that and i think
01:24:41.700the reason we see it as girl bosses is because for so long being a woman has been defined as being a
01:24:49.080mother so what this is is it's a reaction to the to the prescriptions that have been put on women for
01:24:55.460so long what does it mean to be a good woman you raise a child you raise children you're in the
01:24:59.660home still correct it's still correct though i don't know not necessarily if it's women don't
01:25:04.220have to do that men don't have if you want a society you have to do that you do there so do
01:25:08.760you want a feminist society or not i do want a feminist then you need those things no no you do
01:25:12.360but you don't need to obligate people to do that people will do it on their own you don't have to
01:25:17.700tell they're not doing it why aren't they doing it it's because they can't fucking afford to do it
01:25:22.240no no that's not true it is why are the poorest people have the most what why are the poorest
01:25:25.920people have the most kids why do poor people have the most kids generally largely because they
01:25:29.500don't have access to contraception because they don't have access to all those things because
01:25:32.700they don't have access to folks hold on a second we don't have a moderator you just said because
01:25:36.460people can't afford it i just pointed a counterpoint i just gave you a counterpoint
01:25:40.800that the poorest people are having the most kids yes so that's not a good reason hold on
01:25:45.980just because poor people are having children more poor people have more children than
01:25:50.840the wealthy released from the fully liberated uh fem bot right the feminoids are in western
01:25:59.320luxurious countries i would argue that it's not because they don't have money it's because they're
01:26:04.720they have a materialist worldview well no i think they have a worldview that says you have the
01:26:10.340option to have children or not no and i think no people people who are poor i think largely i think
01:26:15.300you're in college dude yeah i am in college wait a second are you saying that you don't hear
01:26:19.840every from every angle not just in media not just in in movies not just in education you're not
01:26:26.180hearing the messaging that says women we got to fight against this whole like you being at home
01:26:32.480being a mother thing you need to be a strong independent woman right go out there and be a
01:26:36.980girl boss right and what i and i don't i don't know what women you're talking to i don't think and i
01:26:42.020look i we can ask women this question when you hear that do you hear i should not have children
01:26:47.520or i should not center every aspect of my existence around being a mother and instead
01:26:53.100prioritize some of my own well-being over that and i don't think that is antithetical to having a
01:26:58.300society that has children people will have children if they if they have the resources forget the
01:27:03.320ought for a second okay i'm going to grant you that the ought claim isn't being made but are you saying
01:27:07.940the power the power of media in today's age you and me are not going to agree that that doesn't
01:27:15.320influence the way women see childhood like i see birth look every single look dude every single
01:27:22.120image of childbirth in media for the last 20 years has been like an emergency screaming fest where
01:27:28.040everyone's like it looks like they're about to die dude and what happens after that what do you mean
01:27:32.100what happens no in the scene what happens after the screaming and that all that well they they give
01:27:35.960them the baby and if it's not poorly written well they get a shot of uh endorphins there you go so it's
01:27:40.700not anti having children well it shows that and then that's fine when they love their children and
01:27:45.660it's a beautiful day fair enough but when you're looking at the overall propaganda from feminism
01:27:51.160right i don't think you're the representation by the way i don't i don't really think there is a
01:27:56.760representation you don't think there's a they don't think there's a central through line of
01:28:00.820narrow of uh of narrative through from the general feminists like even all every every phase of
01:28:08.020feminism there's a through line there's i think i think there is a type of feminism i think there is
01:28:12.640a picture of feminism that gets amplified by the media okay what is that and people who know and
01:28:17.420people who are sympathetic to your view because of the way that algorithms are structured in the way
01:28:21.140that media structures that you get presented tell me that yeah of course yeah women hate having
01:28:25.440children they view being mothers as inherently oppressive right and they yell that i'm not saying
01:28:29.800that's not a narrative i'm just saying i don't think it's actually something that most people and
01:28:34.800even women subscribe to i think most women ideally want to be mothers they just don't want to be
01:28:40.900defined as child bearers they don't want to be because they want to be able to have other because
01:28:46.780just like men aren't defined as as as fathering children i know but like okay like i don't what
01:28:56.100what else what else would you define a woman as in her lifetime right i'm not saying all women have
01:29:04.100kids it's like they could live into different futures especially women who can't have kids but
01:29:08.940ultimately we're looking at what what should be advocated right i'm here i'll put it simply from
01:29:15.820your view of feminism why isn't feminism prime uh prioritize motherhood because you because your
01:29:24.120side of it prioritizes motherhood in such a way no no wait because it prioritizes motherhood in such a
01:29:29.960way that is oppressive no dude yes it's the total opposite no let me tell you why it's the opposite
01:29:35.000to be in the home no you don't want women let me tell you why it's opposite what do you what let
01:29:38.720me tell you why it's opposite are you really telling me right now you let me tell you why it's
01:29:41.760opposite to vote is it more is it more oppressive on a woman to be in the home or to be in debt
01:29:47.040um i think that it depends first one on who the woman is and what she wants i think it's more
01:29:54.680oppressive to force a woman to be in no one forces her yes you do how do you force a woman to be at
01:30:00.560home uh don't allow her to go to work use the exact force that's not force what are you talking
01:30:05.700about no that's cool that's some type of uh that's some sort of uh emotional coercion threat of
01:30:10.840violence aren't we aren't we all aren't we totally you say everything bottoms out in violence you say
01:30:15.400everything bottoms out and no no no you use not everything no what when it comes to when it comes to
01:30:20.120right no when it comes to rights which you're advocating for when it comes to when it comes to
01:30:24.360um engagement let's say man and woman okay uh both the man and the woman have different forms of uh
01:30:30.980let's say manipulation a type of coercion some type of like if you ultimatums this kind of thing
01:30:36.800okay women and men can both do that but the reason when you said women are more oppressed when
01:30:43.140they were in the home okay look when they started the suffrage movement right do you think that it
01:30:48.580was most women who wanted the vote no i know a lot of them were against it okay because they were
01:30:52.140against it because they thought it would require them to also be conscripted into the that that and
01:30:57.280they did not want that and that they would also be uh uh subject to debt as well but mostly the first
01:31:04.600thing you said um did you know that the the the minority that was the suffragette movement actually
01:31:10.860shut shut down and made it hard right thwarted these women showing up in a type of primary votes
01:31:17.640to vote against their own vote hold on i mean i feel like that's not that surprising though i know
01:31:22.580but how look dude hold on wait no no wait if if a bunch of hold on this is going to be a poor analogy
01:31:27.640but it's coming to mind right now imagine that i guess black people wanted to be free from slavery
01:31:31.680and they knew that there was a faction of black people who would outnumber them and i guess had
01:31:36.700been convinced that slavery was good and they tried to stop those people from coming in and keeping
01:31:42.060them in chains would it would it be ridiculous for them to do that i don't think so i think it would
01:31:46.520make sense we don't want these women voting against us having the analogy actually comes
01:31:52.620back to the force doctrine because these people used force and other techniques to stop the women
01:31:57.900from actually showing up you know what they said who who did they just the like the whole who used
01:32:02.820force well they would actually physically isn't is it obstruction force well sure but who was due
01:32:07.220using the force then oh it's probably a collection of men men okay so then men were the ones who
01:32:12.040yeah patriarchy were against women having the right to vote it doesn't matter what women want
01:32:16.220because they can't enforce no no you're confusing me you're confusing me i'm saying the people pro
01:32:21.520women voting shut down the majority of women who were going to come to vote right against their own
01:32:28.280vote why do you understand i get it then why were men advocating why were men using force to stop
01:32:35.260women from advocating against them voting there were men on either side who didn't who were like what the
01:32:40.200hell's going on but what what i'm saying is that so there's when when it comes to the reasoning though
01:32:44.180oliver the the whole group of the suffragettes they basically were like they gaslit the women
01:32:51.500right and this is what's so ironic is that hold on gaslit they said they said oh these women who are
01:32:58.240the majority they're just so docile from being in the home that they're not thinking right in their
01:33:04.760opposition to voting so we have to figure out a way to stop them from opposing it they were literally
01:33:11.080looking at the women like the women didn't have the right mind to say no uh being in the home is is
01:33:17.560best for society best for motherhood best for children uh it's best to not get conscripted it's
01:33:23.080best to not hold debt and it's best for men to manage all these other things there's this gendered
01:33:27.560system that they were they that they were living in these radicals basically were saying no we got to
01:33:33.460change the world right it's always this revolutionary movement right but the thing is the revolutionary
01:33:38.700movement ironically still requires the thing that they're opposing they're asking daddy hold on for
01:33:45.220the force fine i can be against violence and realize that in order to actually be against violence there
01:33:52.580must be some threat of violence to back that up but that doesn't make it contradictory to be against
01:33:58.860unjustified violence well i'm talking about violence i'm talking about feminism no no but you're saying
01:34:04.020that feminism is a contradiction it is because they are against men and their power and in order
01:34:10.700to be against that you have to appeal to it appeal to men so in order to be against violence
01:34:17.340you have to have some sort of violence opposing that well no no it is it is a no no i'm saying
01:34:26.060saying it's actually worse it's it's like it's like specifically the feminist i understand the
01:34:32.660violence paradox this is this is more than that it's it's that that women them because you can
01:34:37.440have a violence paradox with two groups of men right sure but i'm saying that if you switch it to a
01:34:42.800group of men and a group of women the women don't have the leverage of violence at all so it's not
01:34:48.560even violence against violence it's literally violence against uh a bunch of people who can't fight
01:34:54.200right they're going to annihilate them so what the what the feminists need and they still need today
01:34:58.440they're saying down with the patriarchy down with the patriarchy the reason that they're chanting
01:35:04.180is because they know they don't have any power hold on wait do you do you deny that like protests can
01:35:11.360be effective and protests can help change hearts and minds and things of that nature yes it changes the
01:35:16.420minds of men and therefore men yes but i don't but i don't see how that's like i don't know trying to
01:35:22.080change the minds of people who have more and i agree men have more privilege in society because
01:35:27.200of that i'm saying that with a certain amount of privilege comes a responsibility here we go to
01:35:32.980defend those who are hold on hold on okay i grant that and i agree with you from my worldview men
01:35:39.320because of their ontology and their nature they have different duties than women right now even if you
01:35:45.660find some alternative and some exceptions i know your brain goes to exceptions right i'm granting all the
01:35:50.720exceptions i'm just saying generally speaking there is a pretty clear threshold between what would
01:35:56.320seem to be the duty of men from both of our perspectives you're saying well men given that
01:36:01.840they have the ability maybe they should have the duty sure to protect these things what i'm asking
01:36:06.880what i'm asking for is the counter um the counter deontology the the what is the duty and the
01:36:15.740obligation of the women if we you and i both agree that the duty and the obligation of the man is to
01:36:21.960protect not men people who are people who are stronger than others and i generally men generally
01:36:25.880men fine but it's not why do you do that why do you do this because it's not in virtue of the fact
01:36:30.000that they're men i would think that a stronger woman would have that same duty that the men has to
01:36:36.820defend a someone who is weaker than they are regardless of whether they're male or female so
01:36:41.700you you you're right that there are differences between men and women that generally result in
01:36:46.780being stronger okay look but it's not necessarily the case look you're like six one two six one i'm
01:36:53.680like five eleven five eleven okay okay so let's say let's say you uh are walk let's say you're dating
01:37:00.180a woman who can beat you in arm wrestling and it's kind of funny like sure it's people know about it
01:37:05.540they make fun of you or whatever yeah you're walking down the street yeah there's someone being
01:37:10.440aggressed by a strong man let's say it's a smaller woman who's addressed by a man and you're across
01:37:15.480the street yeah does she now have the obligation above you if she's stronger than me yeah so you
01:37:21.480send your stronger who just she can beat you in a fight like a like arm wrestling she's she's beefier
01:37:26.620than you she can break something that you can't yeah and you're going to say because of her strength
01:37:31.340only she's gonna you send her to fight off the aggressor send her if she wants to go do that then
01:37:39.060yeah no i'm saying no no we're not mean send her no no i don't have dominion no we're i understand
01:37:43.780we're talking about obligations i'm saying when i say obligation fine then she would have the
01:37:47.620obligation and you don't stronger if i'm not stronger than the other person who's beating the
01:37:51.940person no no you don't know if you're stronger than the other person but you know that your
01:37:55.740girlfriend in this case is stronger than you did they yeah she has the obligation yeah how is that
01:38:01.360ridiculous if she didn't say it was ridiculous i'm just i mean i feel like you're trying i'm just
01:38:05.140saying i'm just saying that to something i'm i'm pointing to that um that whoever's generally
01:38:11.960stronger you're saying in your ideal society of feminism has the obligation okay yes okay i'm just
01:38:18.440going to grant that generally men have the obligation to defend and protect the less because
01:38:24.760they are strong yes general they're generally strong now um what does do women not not the
01:38:30.900exceptional woman your girlfriend in this case not her most of the women are are frailer they're
01:38:36.780petite uh they're they're not prone to fighting they don't want to fight they run from a fight
01:38:42.080okay what what is their obligation to society uh pay taxes follow the laws provided they're just
01:38:50.120like i don't what do you mean everyone has obligations so just exist yeah what do you what do you
01:38:54.800dude dude you look i'm kidding i have it right i have written right here individuals have the same
01:39:00.640rights equal opportunities and so on right you're trying to even the play the playing field we agree
01:39:05.660that men have the obligation they they are the force okay they're going to determine what ends up
01:39:12.060being law not they might have a war about it whatever men fight men if we accept that there's a duty
01:39:18.360aspect there this is the biggest crucial element of feminism as a as a general worldview i don't know if
01:39:23.440it's a fully fleshed out worldview but this is where it really thwarts people that i've debated is
01:39:27.940like if we agree on that part with the men i asked you what's the obligation for women if you think
01:39:34.800there should be some equal play here and you said guess what you said they just exist how is that
01:39:40.620contrary women just exist and get all the benefits of society yeah that men provide sure and but yet
01:39:48.180you're gonna fight against men being in power yeah well how is this ridiculous i don't expect
01:39:53.640women to reward me for doing the bare minimum and not oppressing them like i just don't see you're like
01:39:59.260women please reward me please look i'm protecting you you should really be grateful because i could hit
01:40:04.460you at any moment like what the fuck feminine yeah women should be grateful to men not trying to tear
01:40:09.500them down tear down the patriarchy why because i've already explained to the audience and you
01:40:13.800feminism and everything you think it includes as entitlements relies on the patriarchy you should
01:40:21.000act feminists should be pro-patriarchy they're pro-men not hurting women that is pro-patriarchy
01:40:27.480you're still appealing to you know if you're defining patriarchy i don't you yeah you're in power
01:40:31.980sure no power i mean what's men men having primary positions and not just physical power
01:40:38.320in in institutions of and they can change that without with their force could and women can't
01:40:43.420women could change it too by killing every one of their offspring well no that wouldn't that would
01:40:47.360just change that would just change the number of people that existed it wouldn't change the fact
01:40:50.640that men and men would die and then men would die out and civilization would yeah so women could kill
01:40:55.420off so okay so here's we finally got to an obligation okay men under his feminist view men have the
01:41:02.920obligation to uphold uh law society hold on defend rights defend the country because they're stronger
01:41:09.080generally women have the obligation to not kill their offspring well women have an obligation not
01:41:16.500to kill people generally same way men don't have an obligation to kill people hold on a second
01:41:20.100is feminism mostly pro-killing your offspring or against it no you want to get into abortion
01:41:24.440no i'm asking you a question is feminist the narrow the the feminist view is it is it sold as an
01:41:30.180empowering thing a right to kill your offspring or not um i think it's considered a right to have
01:41:36.060bodily autonomy yes okay so talk about it so if the men in this society we agree have the obligation
01:41:43.380because of their strength collectively to defend rights and i ask you what does a woman have the
01:41:48.420obligation to do it sounded like before they have the obligation to not off their offspring and
01:41:54.240themselves and yet feminism under your own view is men defending women to have the right to
01:42:01.840to have an abortion yeah to kill their offspring even though you just admitted that their obligation
01:42:06.440is to not kill themselves shouldn't kill their born offspring they should born they they shouldn't
01:42:11.980kill people who are outside of the womb okay so we're not reliant okay so when a woman's pregnant so
01:42:16.200when a woman's pregnant a man has the obligation to defend her rights to walk around and do anything
01:42:22.020and not get aggressed and defend her when she's aggressed by stronger people right and the obligation in
01:42:28.120return is that she can still annihilate the baby hold on so if we want to get into a conversation
01:42:32.540about abortion because i think it's very interesting no one has a right to use another
01:42:36.560person's bodily organs without their consent that's on when does that happen what do you mean that's
01:42:41.980how our society is structured okay cool so a woman who basically um so a woman who's sleeping and the
01:42:48.620baby rolls over and and suckles on the teeth what is that informed consent or what do you what are you
01:42:53.380talking about the woman's sleeping she didn't give consent to the baby rolling over and feeding on her
01:42:57.080okay fine what does that have to do with anything you just said then if the woman doesn't want if a
01:43:01.240woman doesn't want to breastfeed her child and obviously parents both men and women have an
01:43:04.900obligation to feed their children okay if a woman doesn't want to use her body in order to feed her
01:43:08.420children then she can find other ways to do so and if she doesn't want to feed her child she can put
01:43:12.520it up for does the woman who's pregnant uh get the consent of the the fetus when it gives it her
01:43:18.240necessary stem cells what do you mean well it's not an autonomous being what do you mean oh so it just
01:43:24.780can't decide at all but it's it but the woman is still uh gaining types of nutrients for itself
01:43:31.020from the baby what does it have to do with anything well you're saying no it can't be otherwise you said
01:43:35.520no living being would you say living being has the right to take it without the consent because the
01:43:40.740baby's not capable of giving consent well baby's not capable of giving consent when it's when it's one
01:43:46.860week old either sure and i don't think you should i guess like so feeding a baby without its consent
01:43:52.700is wrong no why would i say that it's wrong you just said you have no right to violate one's consent
01:43:57.760you don't have a right to use someone's body bodily organs without their consent
01:44:02.660their bodily organs yeah so kidney donation someone cannot forcibly let's say that you know
01:44:09.320someone else needs your kidney to survive let's even say that you put them in a position where they
01:44:14.400require your kidney for survival yeah as a society at least currently as we have structured it now
01:44:19.220it's not legal for them to take that from you without your consent if you hit someone with your
01:44:23.520car let's imagine and you know because of that you were driving recklessly and now they require
01:44:27.820you know your kidney in order to survive the state can't obligate you to donate your kidney to them
01:44:33.040you mean men sure yeah so again we're in a position where even your argument for consent being the
01:44:39.900ethical norm is still wholly reliant on the disparity of force and power between men and women when have
01:44:45.200i ever denied that that's like factually how things are but there's a difference between how things
01:44:49.480are and how things should be i want to get to the should how do you determine how things should be
01:44:53.920under feminism under feminism yeah because that's what's being defended tonight sure i'm defending
01:44:58.800feminism on the view that i think it leads to better outcomes for everyone okay so why ought
01:45:04.140okay who determines what a good outcome is under feminism under feminism i don't society in general
01:45:10.480like i do and what are you what are you saying like we're trying to appeal to universal moral
01:45:14.420standards here of like well i'm not saying all feminists agree on outcomes you probably debate
01:45:18.860other feminists but it's like the if you're coming to the table and saying here's my idea of feminism and
01:45:24.280here's how i think society should be structured from a feminist position right yeah um we already agreed
01:45:31.380that struck uh society can only be structured in in in a way that actually creates disparity it's
01:45:38.040descriptively so between men and women like that's the only way a society functions but what else are
01:45:43.380you arguing ought to be the case men should not use their power to oppress women i don't know how
01:45:48.360this is so hard for you to understand what do you mean oppress women to exert their will on women with
01:45:54.160force just because you're stronger than someone doesn't mean that you should use that power to make
01:46:00.460them submit to your will i don't see why wait how does that what i mean that seems to be happening
01:46:05.620more more with men what do you mean yeah men should not also kill or coerce or i mean violence against
01:46:12.160other men i mean women get a vote that not directly but indirectly uh a woman's position uh through a
01:46:19.080vote could actually um result in men getting drafted sure i'm against the draft okay i'm against
01:46:25.760the draft entirely i think it violates the 13th amendment's clause of involuntary servitude okay but
01:46:30.060you would yeah okay so you would agree that that was that would be a violation of the man in that
01:46:35.040case it shouldn't exist the draft shouldn't exist okay okay but that here's the thing is like if
01:46:39.960you're can you think of an instance where the draft should exist no really i don't so i think you can
01:46:45.840always incentivize people to fulfill that basic need so for example if people don't want to go to war
01:46:52.140um pay them more um have have it so that when they come back from war they are provided better maybe
01:46:58.360it would be less of an incentive to go to war yeah you don't know whether you're going to have a
01:47:01.720fighting for honestly i think that the scenarios in which to draft the dire situation that a draft
01:47:07.340would be necessary it was vietnam i don't think money would be the the last one was vietnam though
01:47:13.160like that was a war that was a terrible decision to go to war over yeah well i mean if you don't if
01:47:18.920it's i mean i'm fine with you just opposing the draft because some people they basically ask well
01:47:24.900you know when is you know what where's the disparity and equality between men and women
01:47:29.880you know descriptively i've already established that but that's one thing that we can always go
01:47:34.160to where they're like well we'll then make it legal to draft women and we're arguing no you shouldn't
01:47:39.600draft anyone like we we shouldn't want yeah i don't want that either now let's talk about um um
01:47:44.700standards like if equality do you agree that when you argue opportunity we are you agree that uh
01:47:52.920opportunities require capability right sure and if some people can't meet a standard then yeah they
01:47:58.680should not be in that position should people lower the standards for equality uh lower the
01:48:03.060standards let's say uh firefighter police officer davy seals no i don't think so you should not lower
01:48:08.220standards however it doesn't there there is not a standard of brute strength in order to occupy most
01:48:14.100positions in society that aren't enforcement based yeah i wouldn't i'm not arguing the counter to
01:48:19.360feminism isn't necessarily arguing keep women out of things by force it's it's that it's countering
01:48:26.760one one a descriptive claim that's false that assumes women have the same uh duties or even
01:48:32.800power as men um and two the um what should the the question is a should versus a should should we
01:48:41.020prioritize women uh doing what they're really good at well if it's the case that most when we're not
01:48:46.820homogenous group i understand women all together but i'm going to reject that every time if it's the
01:48:52.000case that women are mostly good at certain things i don't should we i don't think that's necessarily
01:48:57.840true i don't think women are inherently better at taking care of children than men no they're not
01:49:05.020inherently better no you don't can do that men can do that too well i'm not saying what it's not
01:49:11.940capability like one or the other it's that is that is there a better scenario is it a better scenario
01:49:18.880that men are put in certain um no duty positions than than others than than women is it better that
01:49:27.420we have a fighting force that is comprised of the strongest individuals yes okay and if it turns out
01:49:32.600that the strongest individuals because of facts of biology are overwhelmingly male then yeah but here's
01:49:38.440the thing is if if the men we agree that if collectively men are best used um to be like the
01:49:48.020the general enforcement arm in one aspect sure yeah okay but what's that for women because i'm not even
01:49:53.900talking about duties anymore there isn't what is that for women isn't necessarily symmetry here you're
01:49:57.400really not going to say that perhaps the equal um the equal parallel to men is raising kids no okay i'm
01:50:05.760not so sorry so you're okay i don't think it's the case women are not i just don't understand how
01:50:09.980from your feminist view that you're defending i'm not i just don't understand how you could
01:50:15.000look at what's needed right now um as far as human beings and looking at it and and obviously coming to
01:50:23.720the conclusion that what's demonstrated in the past is that women in the home raising kids
01:50:29.280is a functional let's even go pragmatism it's extremely pragmatic for women in their nurturing uh
01:50:37.360in their nurturing trait no to they're not more nurturing than men inherently biologically no
01:50:43.460collectively uh because society socializes really in such a way yes oh they're socialized to do that
01:50:48.540yes so women weren't nurturing before societies had like i don't know modern propaganda and all
01:50:54.180stuff hold on what do you mean societal norms have existed without mass media so wait a second it just
01:50:59.660happens to be the case that almost every society that we look at happens to construct women to be
01:51:05.840nurturing mothers so i think the reason that women are often given that role is because of the
01:51:10.620proximity to children that they have considering they grow them i'm not but that it's not that that
01:51:16.080ought to be the case just because of that i didn't say ought i said is it better no not necessarily
01:51:21.680why can't men men could raise the kids too okay so you think that a woman has a child it's better
01:51:26.840for her to stay in the home or do an equal swap with them with them let's say let's say a husband
01:51:32.300and a wife hold on hold on let's say a man and a wife have the same exact skill and ability to
01:51:38.020to work a job yes a woman just has a child right yes all right and you're saying it's an either or
01:51:46.280situation that he goes that she goes back to the job and he stay home correct whatever is whatever is
01:51:51.200best for their preferences if it's just if the man wants to work um we would also depend on who's
01:51:55.760who is better at raising the child and i don't think it's always the case that the woman would
01:51:59.180be better okay there are some men that are more nurturing than women so if the man is better
01:52:02.900capable of nurturing that child then the man should be the one to stay home well how would you know i
01:52:08.080mean what if it what if the preference is to do it but he's not as good then i think there's always
01:52:12.960going to be a trade-off between what's best for the child and what's best for the parents i don't
01:52:16.840think that always we must do everything that is completely in the best interest of our children
01:52:22.200to the utmost degree okay i'm gonna ask you hypothetical how would you know that your view
01:52:27.680of feminism was realized what do you mean realized you know like actualized like right now for instance
01:52:33.080you agree if there weren't people calling to abolish uh women having the right to vote that would be a
01:52:37.700good start abolish the yeah but yeah but i already went over this like to get the right to vote they had to
01:52:45.400suppress and silence women okay so what if women what if women collectively said we don't want hold
01:52:51.420on hold on what if women because you're talking about what what your standard right now is that
01:52:57.580the actualization one one instance of actualizing your view of feminism is that um women uh outright
01:53:04.920have the right to vote what if women went against you and they said i don't want the right to vote
01:53:10.120as a total then sure then i don't if if collectively women all come together and say they don't want
01:53:16.240the right to vote i'm not going to stand in their way there's a reason we don't you know there's a
01:53:20.300reason we don't see that right now okay so why why would then you be against a bunch of men getting
01:53:25.500together and saying that women don't have the right to vote because they're taking away rights that
01:53:31.040aren't their own wait no hold on if there's a group of women who got together and they dominated
01:53:36.560uh collective there was like 75 80 percent of them hold on hold on then maybe hold on then maybe i
01:53:42.320misspoke i don't think that i'd get then i don't think that people should be able to like vote away
01:53:48.240rights of others yeah but why should why if you don't think you should vote away the rights of
01:53:53.580others why do you think you should be able to vote in the rights of others what do you mean those
01:53:58.100things could change you had a right to you had a right to own a slave at one point you're saying you
01:54:02.360don't think you should have vote away the right for something hold on you don't believe that the
01:54:06.780right to own a slave and the right to vote are two very a right is simply an allowance that's given to
01:54:12.060people as an entitlement with no obligation that groups of men with guns allow or don't allow so
01:54:19.420was there a time where technically you had the right to own another person are we talking morally are
01:54:24.760we talking like descriptively sure if you want to if you want to talk about rights in the sense of
01:54:28.840what was the case and was just the case then then yeah sure there was a there was a societally
01:54:34.340recognized right but you own another but you said you said you don't have the right to take someone's
01:54:40.060right away fine then if you want to argue that i'm being sloppy with language that's fine then sure
01:54:44.940then if what's happening though if people do something and they take it away and they call it
01:54:49.580a right then they call it a right i can't tell them not to call it something i can still say what
01:54:53.780they're doing is wrong i understand do that yeah oliver i understand you're you're basically bound
01:55:00.720to the language we have but if the thing you're appealing to is rights and we can point to rights
01:55:05.940that are unjust i'm not sure what exactly you're defending rights and i'm appealing to people's
01:55:10.760individual autonomy and well-being to make decisions about their own lives i don't i don't think other
01:55:15.520people should be the dictators of what other people's lives are yeah but if if you don't think that
01:55:22.260other people should dictate how other people's lives are if there's a whole group of people who
01:55:28.140don't agree that rights exist you're going to count you're going to contradict that too what do you
01:55:33.420mean if there's a bunch of people right now in the u.s who say i don't believe rights exist okay
01:55:39.280you are going to be on the side that says no we're actually going to still use force and you could try to
01:55:46.160behave as though rights don't exist and you could believe that but that's actually we're going to force
01:55:50.480the belief of rights onto you right yeah we're going to force your beliefs good things over bad
01:55:55.520things cool if i think it's a good thing like this is a thing yeah you're right it's just whoever has
01:56:00.340the most power dude if your entire ethical paradigm just reduced here right now in the moment to
01:56:06.420whoever has the power and their preferences rule out as long as you have the power to rule it out
01:56:12.280you agree that under even your own standard that if a bunch of men got together and uh went back on
01:56:19.560giving the women uh the right and they thought it was good if they could argue that it was good it
01:56:24.360was even better for women than than they thought then you wouldn't really have uh it's totally
01:56:29.780consistent with your ethical position right sure okay i guess i'm not fully understanding i'm i'm
01:56:35.740asking whether it's consistent under your ethical system where the majority of people decide that
01:56:41.460what's best is well we're going to actually go back on the 19th amendment and and women don't
01:56:46.500realize it at the moment right but it's actually going to be better for them it's going to it's
01:56:50.360going to make them safer it's going to make them happier if they really thought that they're wrong
01:56:54.160i don't i don't i don't think we should be infantilizing people on the basis that men know
01:56:58.140what's best for women i think that's just not no i didn't say they that it is like it could be or
01:57:03.360couldn't be i'm just saying the activity of doing it is consistent with your ethical paradigm
01:57:08.320that it wait that it would happen or that it should happen no that it could it wouldn't be
01:57:12.280counter to your view what do you mean counter to my descriptive view or normative your standard
01:57:17.420your normative view is this if a bunch of women decide we they don't want the vote and they
01:57:23.320overpower overpopulate the women who think they want the vote they shouldn't then it's fine no then
01:57:28.020they shouldn't vote if they don't want to vote don't vote no no they don't even want other women
01:57:32.580to vote well no then why why are you trying to take away other people's ability to vote well no they
01:57:37.640just want they believe that it's not a good thing okay then don't vote i don't i don't care if you
01:57:43.980don't think it's a good thing i don't know why if someone is subject to the laws if someone is
01:57:47.820subject to how they are being governed then they should be represented in that process yeah but
01:57:51.200why why don't people under the system have the right to establish a majority view that informs law
01:57:59.220that removes entitlements how does it remove entitlements how men's men's entitlement to have
01:58:06.780dominion over women no dude any entitlement you look at is provided and can be overturned right
01:58:12.760sure okay what do you i don't i don't really see you're just saying i get it whoever has more power
01:58:18.200is able to do what they want what do we where do we go from here uh well what's interesting where we
01:58:22.800go is if we both agree that descriptively it's the case that whoever has the power does what they want
01:58:30.000the only question between everybody in the political spectrum whoever you debate libertarians
01:58:36.200christians trumpers progressives commies the only question from my view is whose ethical paradigm is
01:58:44.560informing the force is that fair i guess okay what okay cool yeah whoever has we we've established
01:58:54.320the conclusion over and over whoever whoever can do what they want can do what they want we're at a
01:58:58.860tautology here and i don't disagree with you that whoever has the most power can do what they want
01:59:03.480the question isn't what can they do it's what they should do i know that's why i'm saying
01:59:07.680ultimately all of these debates come down to including the feminist debate who should have
01:59:13.740the power and whose worldview should inform the use of force sure so under a feminist view being that
01:59:20.420here's here's another aspect of feminism that i've debated against that it doesn't have it doesn't
01:59:25.740have a normative authority or or standard to say you're being a good feminist or a true feminist
01:59:31.060right or a false one for instance i mean feminists disagree on so much that i don't really i don't
01:59:36.920know i i also wouldn't claim to be the like authority on that's fine like just go out on a
01:59:41.600ledge like if if if a feminist if a woman is like i think that a woman's proper role is in the home and
01:59:47.380i don't think that she should have the right to vote and women who do that are going against being a
01:59:51.780woman i would say that that's pretty counter to every single what if they said that what i'm pointing
01:59:55.740to is there's that feminism itself is um is basically pluralism like even among feminists
02:00:03.120like so if if a woman came to the table a tradition a trad mom right she can live in the home she can
02:00:08.340say that's feminist right sure it kind of is because she's asserting her own choice and autonomy to do
02:00:15.400with what with her life what she wants right so that is i guess yeah you can be a feminist and want
02:00:20.760to be a stay-at-home wife right those two things are not so it could happen in the next 20 years
02:00:25.140where feminism the the last stage of feminism as we know it could be back to the home right if women
02:00:32.740collectively decided that that is what they wanted to do and they didn't think that other women who
02:00:38.800didn't do that were somehow failing in their womanhood then sure could it be feminist to be
02:00:46.140submissive to your husband if a woman wants to make that decision sure but it would depend on what
02:00:51.480you mean by submissive it would be first would it would it mean that he you are kind of giving away
02:00:57.540some permanent kind of stake that you have like so once you decide to be submissive to your husband
02:01:02.640would that entail that you can never not be submissive or could you go back on that arrangement
02:01:06.760and be like no you know what well i've been submissive to you for a while i've decided that this is not a
02:01:11.060paradigm that i like hold on this is gonna do that well that that's why probably there's so many
02:01:15.520divorces is that um i want to blame it fully on that but i would say individualism both from the
02:01:20.900men and the woman perspective i think i think feminism is rooted in individualism and i think
02:01:25.960individualism is actually uh uh basically a net loss for society because what you get is people
02:01:33.420pursuing their own individual preferences wants desires above the any view of a collective and i would
02:01:39.840call the family one of the more local collectives so and so i think that individualism in the home
02:01:45.860for instance um i don't think people should be individualistic in the home i fully agree with
02:01:50.280you okay people people should if they have children especially if they have families you should absolutely
02:01:53.920prioritize the well-being of your family to an extent okay what if the man what if the man decides
02:01:59.060what's the best well-being for the family is x and they vote this way and the woman having the right
02:02:04.580to vote cancels out his vote well then yeah that's how it should be people should yeah they should just
02:02:10.200cancel each other out yeah okay what do you what what how is that counter two people voting oppositely
02:02:15.900do cancel each other out i know but it they represent the same house and people who represent the same
02:02:20.840house can disagree i know but is it better that the heads of two houses are in disagreement i actually
02:02:27.240would agree that i don't think it is which is why i think certain political differences that if you have
02:02:31.260them you should not marry someone who contradicts your core values well i'm just wondering why would
02:02:36.280it why would it be an advantage uh um to give the woman the vote inside the house and not just give
02:02:43.420it to the man anyway like what would be the advantage what do you what's the advantage what's the advantage
02:02:48.660of giving women the right to vote inside a house where it splits the vote the splits the because the
02:02:53.920man could be wrong the man could be wrong about what he wants we should not assume that men know what's
02:02:59.460best because they don't a lot of the time well i know but that you could just reverse that and say
02:03:03.300the woman was wrong but but i'm saying what's the advantage though because because to me there's an
02:03:08.020advantage there's even advantage for the man being wrong and there being a consequence to him being
02:03:14.100wrong what's the consequence of him being wrong well if he if he votes on based on the house he's he's
02:03:20.120the representative of the house right right no he's a representative of himself i'm sorry no you're
02:03:25.940claiming no that's not true no hold on you're claiming whatever he does is therefore representative
02:03:29.560of the house that doesn't mean that he's voting in the best interest of the house i didn't say the
02:03:33.220best interest but he's certainly not representing just himself when you're a father you're going to
02:03:37.540realize this right even loading voting at the local level you're going to realize that your influence
02:03:42.300and your your voice to vote at the local level others i completely it's going to reflect on you
02:03:47.480like you're basically speaking on behalf of your children sure and i don't think that adults should
02:03:53.840inherently or like spouses should inherently speak on behalf of their spouses and take away the ability
02:03:58.580for their spouse to speak for themselves yeah but why why should let's give women then then the woman
02:04:05.160should be the rep there should be the representative of the house the woman only women voting i mean i
02:04:09.660under why can't we do that instead well i what i would argue that women only voting like um i would
02:04:16.300say if women only vote then women only fight wars no why does that necessarily have to well i would say
02:04:22.040that the the vote and you can go back to even lord cromer uh who stated voting to conscription is
02:04:27.700stupid well no i'm saying that i use that as the hyperbole i was just saying that um even very early
02:04:33.300on when when women's votes were started to be the talk of the town very early on men realized and
02:04:40.340vocalized that that um that women because they can't enforce the policy that they're voting for
02:04:48.660they can't do it right they can't they can't enforce the policy they're voting for uh certain
02:04:53.960weaker men can't no but men collectively can and women collectively can't okay then weaker men
02:04:59.560collectively can so why that's fine that's fine they shouldn't be able to vote i fine i i concede
02:05:04.980but okay then you're conceding that that why should women vote right if you understand this logic i'm not
02:05:11.480advocating for everyone who's a man biologically should have a vote i would be the first to say who do you
02:05:17.240maybe i don't think should have i should have a vote so who do we determine has the right to vote
02:05:21.060well we in the past there was actually a set of variables and if you were white and you were
02:05:25.960slave well no it doesn't have to be just that it could be it could be uh yeah it could be land
02:05:31.280owning it could be like it makes sense though like look look look look look at it this way
02:05:35.220does everyone in the company who works for the company uh get a vote on the board well some people
02:05:41.540actually do believe that in terms of like you know democratize does it happen though
02:05:44.740i mean ultimately no right no it doesn't because that's not not the economic system and and the
02:05:49.580reason that is is because the people sitting at the table actually put skin in the game right so
02:05:54.400there's risk well but they what risk are they putting forward well like sometimes they put money
02:05:59.120they put resources and what happens if they don't well if they lose they lose that money they put and
02:06:03.860then what do they do well they could vote or get kicked out or whatever i mean if they if if someone
02:06:08.600puts forward risk yeah in terms of starting a business and something like that and it fails yeah and
02:06:13.860their business fails what do they do start over start over or get a job yeah as as a laborer yeah
02:06:18.940but so they're not risking anything that the other people who are already no it's still not no forget
02:06:23.500it dude there's already a loss the fact that they can do something else doesn't remove the fact that
02:06:28.020there was a lot i'm not saying what they're not losing i'm saying what's the loss for uh the the
02:06:33.180person who has no skin in the game skin in the game is afraid you know the phrase right why don't
02:06:37.140you think women have a skin in the game in the society that we live in they don't have a skin in
02:06:40.860the game because they don't have to enforce anything i and this is the i think maybe this
02:06:45.600maybe this comes down to this agreement we're getting at i don't think that shaping society
02:06:49.520even fundamentally or primarily comes down to who is stronger i think ideas are so much why should
02:06:57.700get a vote because she lives in a society and is subject to the laws no if the society determines
02:07:05.020that she shouldn't have a vote that doesn't that's just circular i'm saying what do you mean
02:07:07.940why is it the case that hawk tua why should andrew tate have a right to vote i don't know maybe
02:07:14.320maybe he shouldn't okay so then what yeah you agree with me with the inquiry why is it that you have
02:07:19.620an immediate defense to voting isn't it oliver possible that though our voting structure currently
02:07:25.200sorry so you're just collapsing this into monarchy then monarchy i think monarchy is pretty cool okay
02:07:30.480but but voting itself like certainly if voting meant that you were going to influence policy both
02:07:36.680both domestically and foreign you would perhaps understand the system perhaps understand some
02:07:43.080level of policy men don't i understand that that's why dude you already got me to concede that i don't
02:07:48.580think most men should vote but certainly the men who have skin in the game no collectively men i would
02:07:57.160say collectively men who who offer their body in service that they could die whether women offer their
02:08:03.740body in service of birthing these men yeah that's the only leverage they have no hold on but that
02:08:08.200seems like pretty powerful and important leverage right well no they can't enforce the rights though
02:08:12.900yeah because voting no because voting hold on voting is their kids no that's not enforcing rights
02:08:18.120how what do you mean how is not having a kid enforcing right i absolutely think it can be a very
02:08:22.460powerful leveraging tool if we talk about it and what is it if like if women all collectively say
02:08:26.940if you don't give i mean some people are saying if you don't give us the right to do this
02:08:30.360then we're going to you mean the 4b not have children yeah 4b yeah they're all ugly no one
02:08:34.820wants to have children with them wait a second that's not i mean it's true well but what is that
02:08:38.580what does that prove that doesn't it proves that just like the suffragette movement who are a bunch
02:08:42.480of goblins who couldn't find men okay all right okay just seriously okay what does that do it's just
02:08:47.480what it just properly identifies the actual problem which is which is women who actually uh put
02:08:54.040themselves out there with the hopes and the desire to be found by a man to be taken care of will in
02:08:59.200return give them children raise their kids for them and then return be respected and be taken
02:09:04.700care of largely society was this in fact what's so crazy about the feminist movement is that before
02:09:11.380all these goblins came on the screen the scene is that women were actually revered they were protected
02:09:17.180they were they were let out to be in the home and guess what guess what benevolent benevolent fine
02:09:22.780it's fine benevolent slavery yeah benevolent slavery beautiful okay well could be i don't
02:09:28.200know how we i don't know how we come to an impasse where do you think that certain people having their
02:09:32.220autonomy restricted is how we it's not even by look it's not even there's only certain things that
02:09:37.940are restricted by the way a society of rights and entitlements your autonomy is restricted all the
02:09:43.720time oliver of course i'm not saying it's so what's the difference between in the street and in
02:09:47.120the home dude what do you mean what's the difference between your autonomy being restricted
02:09:52.560right here out on the street and a woman's being restricted in the home what is the difference between
02:09:57.340if mine is restricted in the home why shouldn't mine be restricted in the home if a society is based on
02:10:02.400restrictions of course it is then i don't understand why you're picking and choosing between one and
02:10:07.880the other what's the threshold what's the what's the what's the um what do they call it yeah i think
02:10:11.980you should have to pay taxes but i don't think people should be able to steal your bodily organs
02:10:15.740okay like i don't i don't you know what i mean like this gets down to the whole libertarian argument
02:10:20.700taxation is slavery i don't think taxing your labor okay but then there are certain therefore
02:10:25.280then there are certain entitlements that are fair entitlement over the other things that you are that
02:10:30.220you owe such as a portion of your income to ensure that society continues but you don't have to donate
02:10:34.480bodily tissue or you don't have to donate your blood or something like that i mean i i myself i know this
02:10:40.140is a feminist debate but i myself might actually violate uh consider violation of autonomy for for
02:10:47.760certain things but i don't know exactly where that is but i'm willing and it is ambiguous but what we
02:10:52.940can we at least hopefully agree on is there seems to be some line there there's we don't know exactly
02:10:58.140where the line is but there right there is a certain balance between freedom and autonomy that exists
02:11:03.840that society has to be okay but here's the thing what is being ultimately violated if you repeal the
02:11:11.04019th amendment what do you mean what ultimately is like what's ultimately being violated like what's
02:11:17.880the big they're right what's the big come up their right to have representation in the society in which
02:11:22.760they live and that they are affected what do you mean representation they should be represented in the
02:11:28.780government why should hawk tua be represented in the government taxes and follow the laws wait
02:11:33.760second wait a second hawk tua can spit spit on that thing and and because hold on and because she
02:11:40.660can spit on that thing and we live in a shitty degenerative society that prioritizes garbage no
02:11:47.120what your view is because hawk tua i don't have to agree with hold on hawk tua can spit on it and
02:11:53.440because she made some money on spitting on it that she should be able to know inform with her vote
02:11:58.860things she doesn't understand most people it's not about understanding it's so you're saying
02:12:03.660it doesn't matter to understand no because and i agree with you democracy is a fundamentally flawed
02:12:08.640system it's probably trash okay but and this is what churchill said is democracy is the worst form
02:12:13.820of government except for all the others there is not a better system there's not a better system out
02:12:19.300there i don't know i mean you're saying sympathetic to monarchy then you are saying that you are
02:12:23.520sympathetic to one person making those determinations well no uh you could have a monarchy and the one
02:12:28.660person making the determination requires some external uh viewer paradigm that's higher than
02:12:33.780them as a person who has preferences wait what do you like a christian monarchy okay the person at the
02:12:39.000top the king um if he went outside the normative authority of of his ethics and he started to run
02:12:45.980around with his preferences which would be an individualist uh view um then they wouldn't they you
02:12:52.500like that's how you get rid of those people it's like you can have that right and it's not uh locked
02:12:58.400into this view that you're just sitting on your own throne of preferences the way it's always depicted
02:13:03.140right isn't it possible that a monarchy could exist that's informed by something larger than the
02:13:08.140individual sitting in the seat ideally yes okay but i'm saying that there's no way to know that
02:13:13.560that's not going to collapse into that individual i think they want and that's what largely happens
02:13:17.580well it also depends on how long it takes to collapse for me because the topic is feminism
02:13:24.460what i've seen since the feminist movement started in all of its phases and there are people on the
02:13:30.480right wing the conservatives they're actually classical liberals who think well no the feminism
02:13:35.160we have now is trash but the the early phase no i'm saying i'm saying it's all bad it's not good
02:13:41.140for society because it results in more individualism and it collapses the integrity of what makes a
02:13:48.940society and the integrity that makes a society is families okay if you were against individualism
02:13:54.280which frankly i could say to an extent i am against as well you should be against it for men and women
02:13:59.780well yeah it doesn't so then if men don't have the right if women don't have the right to vote
02:14:04.680and exercise their preferences in that way then men should not have that right i i'm fine it's just
02:14:10.300when you get to voting i'm totally fine with listing some sort of uh components or or attributes like
02:14:17.220on a baseball card like yeah so then some of it would have to be an inform yeah informing things
02:14:21.040so time out if some women were sufficiently informed and could pass a citizenship test which i'm sure
02:14:25.740many can um do you think that yeah then they should have the right to vote no okay well then it's not
02:14:31.680based on that well it'd be first it would be first the prerequisite is to be a man okay well then that's
02:14:37.120just why uh because they're a part of the category where it could be the case where they're going to
02:14:43.700actually um you know risk their bodies so the well women also risk their bodies yeah but it's not
02:14:49.680yeah but i would make it a duty they don't have a duty to though this is where this is where don't
02:14:54.480have a duty to have children no no sorry from my point of view christian ethical paradigm the duties
02:15:01.900for men and women are different and because the duties are different their place in society and what
02:15:06.240they're uh expected to do and where they find themselves are are they they vary from your
02:15:11.700perspective which is largely sort of like a liberal um sort of like a like a individual it's still
02:15:18.500individualism though it's like you want people to pursue their own personal wants and desires
02:15:23.120regardless of what other people find uh appalling or like as long as it's legal you you go and do it
02:15:30.400right no not necessarily i think that well i i mean i think there are there are certain things that can
02:15:34.500be legal that i don't think people should do but i'm saying the result of that liberalism that like
02:15:40.120that free liberalism the result of that like i think that feminism is largely intertwined with that
02:15:46.660that view like like like for instance feminists aren't all um like ian rand fans or whatever but
02:15:55.160but the thing is ultimately ultimately the thing is do is thou wilt right regardless of your duties
02:16:02.160that's why the biggest criticism when you match up feminism with any other view especially religious
02:16:08.300views that they don't have any duties and obligations well there's zero for men and women
02:16:14.520there's nothing that grounds your duties well i think it's because in our society we don't have to
02:16:21.980specifically ground duties in what people ought to do especially in with regards to reproduction
02:16:27.140people want to have kids that is a innate biological desire of both men and women and men and women will
02:16:35.640have children if they are given the opportunity to do so if they are given the financial resources to
02:16:41.240do so you don't have to force them to do it that's just not how nobody said force yeah we're talking
02:16:46.100about duties you don't have women do not have to be relegated to the home in order for there to be
02:16:51.440children wait a second for there to be you keep using this force as if people are going to force
02:16:55.980people we're talking about you're going to take the right to vote away no from take the right well
02:17:00.120that you already agreed that that could happen and still be consistent with your view how no it
02:17:04.240wouldn't yeah it would you already you already conceded that under your view if it were the case
02:17:08.540that women collectivized and they said you know what we don't want the right to vote you said well
02:17:13.180just don't vote no if the women voted to have it completely repealed that would be fair under the
02:17:18.820democratic system you can vote yeah of course democracy can lead to authority how's that
02:17:23.500inconsistent with your your view though it's not it's not inconsistent of course that's what i said
02:17:27.780their own rights away yeah well absolutely okay cool so so if women agree here so well that's what
02:17:33.900i'm saying if women could vote their rights away to vote if it happened men could vote their rights
02:17:39.200yeah sure you should be fine with that right so i mean it wouldn't be ideal i'm saying in defending
02:17:44.940democracy you don't have to defend every part of what could happen in a democratic system
02:17:51.060democracy is the best version of government it can sometimes go astray and it can sometimes lead
02:17:56.660to bad outcomes and we're not it's just saying that's that's part of the reality that we live in
02:18:01.540unfortunately unfortunately that could happen yeah but even democracy itself is in a type of a
02:18:06.420contradiction is what democracy itself is in a type of contradiction if it can't produce
02:18:13.180something that's not itself what do you mean i'm saying that if democracy can produce all outcomes
02:18:19.860except for ridding itself of democracy i mean it can okay it can but can it here it could the
02:18:26.200question of whether it is it still democracy yeah people can democratically vote away their power
02:18:31.340that's how hitler got into office okay so if it's still democratic right sorry maybe i shouldn't say
02:18:36.380i think you can say that okay if if uh if that's the see i don't understand that seems to be like
02:18:44.080something that's crucial to the view itself because every feminism is all downstream from uh you have
02:18:50.800the entitlement and entitlements are down you know our rights and then rights give you this uh voice and
02:18:58.200then the voice gives you a vote and the voice gives and then the vote gives you a policy and so on and so
02:19:02.180on okay i i don't understand why we're under the assumption that this is something like worth
02:19:08.920like would you would you die to defend this system defend what democracy voting just the whole system
02:19:15.300against anything alternative that you didn't know the outcome of sure yeah i mean in terms of like
02:19:21.920authoritarianism yeah okay and authoritarianism you would define how do you know you're in an
02:19:27.880authoritarian system how i know i'm in an authoritarian system i guess when people's
02:19:33.240constitutional rights are being violated um when uh you know individuals are not respecting the
02:19:38.900checks and balances of the government that are currently being set up or are in place but aren't
02:19:44.320those things authoritarian what do you mean they're those structures how are they authoritarian you can
02:19:49.120have democracy with safeguards i'm not saying democracy is not direct when we talk about democracy it's
02:19:53.200it's always a trade-off between absolute complete mob rule will get people and some safeguards to
02:19:59.920ensure it doesn't go awry that's kind of what a constitution let's get to let's get and that's
02:20:03.440kind of what the bill of rights is that's what the supreme court that's what i'm saying is like
02:20:06.700everything is authoritative in the end and all everything every view you balance it i know but
02:20:12.060that's that's where it comes into play is that if the topic of the debate is feminism is good for
02:20:17.560society or not yeah i'm not i'm still not sure how feminism produces an ethical framework that anyone
02:20:26.200should appeal to at all feminism doesn't produce an ethical framework feminism is just a description
02:20:32.540of it doesn't produce an ethical framework it's based on an ethical framework okay but it just doesn't
02:20:37.840produce it okay it's not a meta-ethical theory okay so there is there is a framework that's judging
02:20:43.080feminism sure and you're saying feminism according to this view is good what's that view feminism like
02:20:51.240what what is determining that feminism is good at a certain point some type of moral objectivism but
02:20:57.000i don't know exactly what kind of moral objectivism that is so wait a second i can't hold on oliver
02:21:02.420i can't justify the axioms of logic oliver if you're coming to a debate and saying feminism is good
02:21:10.680for society yes feminism feminism is a type of an apparatus sure and the thing that's judging it
02:21:16.520in this case you are holding the meta-ethical view is saying this is good for society so you are the
02:21:23.340meta-ethical view right is it just your preferences no it's not i could be wrong and other i could i'm
02:21:29.280not this this doesn't collapse into relativism because what your what any other kind of objective
02:21:34.400view i mean one that appeals to god one that appeals to this just says yeah that's right because god
02:21:38.740says it's right and therefore i'm going to ground it and it being right because of that so it's it's
02:21:42.840masking this isn't that still better than a pluralistic feminism where uh two feminists could
02:21:48.660coexist having completely counteractive preferences and still be called feminists you can have
02:21:53.360counteractive preferences but what they would agree on is both of them are living valid expressions of
02:21:58.440womanhood well i mean that that that would be agreement if one of them believes that the other
02:22:03.740should be okay legally prevented from doing that okay or something like that then yeah then okay
02:22:08.620they would not be a feminist okay so it sounds like you're now i don't want to say shifting is
02:22:13.820like a like like you're dancing i'm just saying it sounds like what you're saying now is feminism is
02:22:19.980about the expression of womanhood i mean it's the expression of i guess i don't know it's the expression
02:22:27.960of saying that that people should not be defined by their sex or gender okay not be that they should
02:22:32.860not have the rights they should not have their privileges like taken away because oliver if all
02:22:38.340of the men in power we agree it's a collective of strong men they can't do that they shouldn't i
02:22:43.380don't why are we holding these circles no no no hold on if all of those men declared that they were
02:22:49.060women would it still be a would it still be men in power would it be still be men in power do you
02:22:53.860want to get into the woman question is that what you want to do well i'm i don't know your view i'm
02:22:57.580just wondering i don't if there's a group of of biological males who hold a position of enforcement
02:23:03.060and power in a society if those you point to them right because the feminists are saying we're being
02:23:08.540oppressed that's the whole point it starts with the assumption that they're being oppressed well
02:23:13.040what are they being oppressed by by a patriarchy okay those are men right yeah well if men can be
02:23:20.000not men we can we we can get into that i so i mean i don't i'd be happy i wrote a lot about this
02:23:25.100idea like what a woman is and the reality is i actually don't think that it is possible to
02:23:30.080provide a set of necessary and sufficient conditions for womanhood or manhood or what is a man or what
02:23:36.760is a woman that includes all the people we would normally think of as women and all the people that
02:23:40.820we'd normally think of as men so how would you and this is a really interesting question how would
02:23:44.100you define a woman a woman someone who has the uh developmental pathways uh toward having ovaries and
02:23:51.780giving birth even if they didn't fully develop okay so there are certain individuals who don't
02:23:55.640have that because they know the pathway is always there the pathway isn't necessarily yes it is have
02:23:59.540you heard of something like there's something like swire syndrome so sawyer syndrome no the the pathway is
02:24:04.060always tilted one direction or the other one is tilted towards male in that case i can provide the
02:24:08.920case of sawyer syndrome for you because i had it down as an example so um sawyer syndrome these
02:24:14.660individuals have x y chromosomes but during development the sry gene responsible for sex
02:24:19.560differentiation doesn't activate meaning these individuals have external female genitalia
02:24:23.940and have present but underdeveloped uterus and fallopian tubes puberty will not occur in these
02:24:28.680individuals unless they're given hormone replacement are you pointing to the um x y as the no i don't i
02:24:35.120don't appeal to that i understand that people have to i don't appeal to x y people would be some
02:24:38.980people who are no some people are x y would be classified as women under your view well no they were
02:24:44.220looking at the pathway of development not x y sure so then because even though they have x y there is
02:24:50.860a pathway because of the lack of the yeah to categorize yeah to properly categorize yeah it is a binary in
02:24:57.660the end they'd be categorized as women okay i mean i'm i'm still working out my exact view on but the
02:25:03.940thing is the thing is i know you've you're probably debating this stuff a lot it it is relevant to
02:25:08.740feminism because we're in a phase now where if everything you thought was oppressive that was
02:25:13.980based on a binary of male and female but you call that binary men men are oppressing me you'd those
02:25:21.080people would have to remove the term men and say males are oppressing me only right well i think that
02:25:26.460men can still track something about about males yeah sure like i don't i think it can still track
02:25:32.480something without it exactly do you do you think that there's actually a difference between a female and a
02:25:38.000woman i think societally there can be i because i for example i think there's different definitions
02:25:43.540we can use for words so i think that we can consider woman like almost every definition or
02:25:48.400every word that we use um has multiple definitions to it like that that just is the case but the question
02:25:54.620is when someone says oh they're a female but they're not a woman you accept that i think that it would
02:26:01.140depend on what they mean but because a woman and man can also be like gender terms and someone is more
02:26:05.580manly or less manly i think women and men are well yeah like feminine gender i think you're referring
02:26:11.160to like feminine and masculine because you're referring to a referent but if someone says it's
02:26:16.780a construct like completely yeah my criticism of all of that stuff uh you know the matt walsh guy
02:26:23.840started the trend by just saying what is a woman whatever but in ultimately i'm pointing out that
02:26:28.980there's not really a referent for it what do you mean like a referent out in space that you can point
02:26:34.700to that's this thing called woman the thing that you're pointing to ends up being biologically
02:26:39.060informed like traits femininity daintness dainty i think there can be some ambiguity there but it
02:26:45.920doesn't mean like nothing exists for example like i don't i i don't think that just because we can't
02:26:51.100pin down like exactly kind of what it like essentially means to be but someone should be able to because
02:26:56.700if they said and you're not taking this position hard by the way um is that um if someone said
02:27:03.460no female is not the same as woman you're talking about sex we're talking about gender that's the
02:27:08.800common on all the tiktoks right i asked this question i'll ask you just because i'm not i'm
02:27:13.680being charitable with you because it doesn't sound like you're you take a really hard stance on this
02:27:17.300but just to answer the question because it's funny um can a female be a trans woman can a female be a
02:27:27.860trans woman i'm i'm not i think largely my understanding of trans women are individuals
02:27:34.580who are biologically male who identify as as women so i guess no in a sense well yeah because
02:27:41.420if they were different it should be yes right like if they if female wasn't identical to woman
02:27:48.200the answer to the question can a female be a trans woman the answer should be yes well no can a female
02:27:54.400be a biological male who identifies as a woman no because she's female well then we're reducing
02:28:00.720this is my point is that it reduces back to sex that's the thing that you're looking at as a
02:28:05.560referent not the if it were true that uh neither male or female is equal to man or woman they they
02:28:12.640can be swapped each of those because they're not identical to each other at all they're totally
02:28:16.500different categories then it would follow that a female biological female could be a trans woman
02:28:22.480they just simply declare it so they declare they identify as a male who became like it like i don't
02:28:29.560look and this i mean we're the rules i know look i don't i don't claim to be an authority on this and
02:28:34.080i don't really my understanding of it is i don't and i i think people who say like sex is changeable
02:28:39.100like i don't agree with that no it's not it's not well they're starting to say that they didn't
02:28:42.640always say that but now it's i think there are people who are saying like sex is mutable or something
02:28:46.220like that i don't i don't i don't agree with that i think that so so i don't think that someone
02:28:50.360can say that like i identify as a biological male because that's not a category that relates to
02:28:57.560identity like those are kind of fixed biological facts and i don't i don't think it is i think
02:29:03.700someone can identify more or less with being a man or being a woman the reason i asked the reason i
02:29:09.400asked is that if you're coming to the table and arguing for feminism and the argument for feminism
02:29:15.020necessitates that there's an oppression happening and we've established that um then once you get
02:29:22.640into the territory where there's ambiguity of what a man and a woman is then you don't have much to
02:29:30.040argue in regards to correcting feminism i don't think that's true because you're basically arguing
02:29:35.100is because we can't point to an exact definite line between you know man and woman or an exact
02:29:41.100definitive point therefore the difference is meaningless kind of right is that kind of what
02:29:45.760you're well if there's no distinction sorority if there's no distinction yeah familiar with the
02:29:50.120sorority's paradox this idea that it's kind of the same thing of like the fallacy of the pile in a heap
02:29:54.500or something like that like oh like how many grains of sand make it yeah like a wave yeah all these
02:29:59.580things i understand and you don't have to say that oh it's exactly this many grains i know but say
02:30:04.460there's a difference between the two so i think there's a difference between women and men
02:30:07.880and i don't know if i and i don't think we have to necessarily go down to like an anatomical
02:30:13.220level in order to kind of i understand i know you're saying that you don't have to but i think
02:30:18.560that if you're going to claim that there's a thing called feminism and feminism doesn't apply to
02:30:26.100men or males it's specific to what you're calling feminism and feminism is this counter to this other
02:30:33.780power structure what's ironic and kind of wild is that the the whole like um you know i guess
02:30:41.100peterson would be like the post-modern people changing all the things you know that is leading
02:30:46.800people to not being able to argue for the injustice because the distinction doesn't exist i don't sure
02:30:52.420and i don't look i'm not you know you you have to ask other people this because that's not a position
02:30:57.600that i necessarily hold but here's what i would here's what i would say in response just a little bit
02:31:01.260is when we're talking about like i think it's still possible even if maybe you don't agree that
02:31:06.880trans women ought to be classified as women in the sense that like i don't know how we ought to
02:31:12.220consider a woman i think that if people consider them women they could experience a type of oppression
02:31:18.580that women face because they're well because because they're viewed that way for example here's a
02:31:21.960really good example no someone someone can um experience um did um discrimination on the basis of
02:31:27.900sexual orientation even if they aren't gay so let's assume that at work someone assumes you're
02:31:32.120gay because you've got a margarita shirt on or something like that and they're making you know
02:31:35.500bad like let's even say someone fires you on the basis of that they're like you're wearing a
02:31:39.260margarita shirt it must mean you're gay i hate gay people i'm gonna fire you okay it's true that
02:31:42.920you could face that would basically kind of be you as i'm assuming you're straight or you straight
02:31:46.920you would be experiencing actually homophobia as a straight person so it could actually be
02:31:52.040possible that a trans woman would experience misogyny i understand what you're saying but
02:31:56.800there's a truth of matter though sure of that of that scenario that's that's where it gets into
02:32:04.020trouble like for instance there are people who were who have this uh experience that they don't
02:32:09.860have a limb right i forget what they call it yeah alien yeah alien limb syndrome or something so they
02:32:13.460have this right and so if they have this experience yeah let's say i discriminate against a person who
02:32:21.000actually doesn't have a limb right okay over there i just like don't ask them for help that's like a
02:32:27.660form like maybe they want me to ask them for help because they don't want to be like a burden or
02:32:30.960whatever but i don't i discriminate i just said oh the legless person i'm not going to ask them to
02:32:34.980help me okay there's a person next to them that believes they declared it so that they identify as
02:32:41.200not having a leg and they're offended that i didn't find i don't affirm okay see that's the
02:32:47.040i use that i fine and look and i'm gonna probably say something that people on the left i think well
02:32:52.700i i think there is a level of kind of like i don't craziness is the right word but i don't know
02:32:58.140accepting people expecting people to accept things that they intuitively see is just not the case
02:33:03.940immediately without question and just like dig just if you and if you don't accept that you are
02:33:10.800a bigot and you are bad i guess i i'm against fair enough okay i'm against i don't and i don't think
02:33:15.080so and look i the the trans issue is something that frankly i try to stay away from mostly because i
02:33:21.480don't it's not that i'm like scared to speak on it because i think that i'm going to get canceled by
02:33:24.920the left it's rather i don't i don't really think that there's much value i can provide to the
02:33:32.440conversation in terms of like what i don't i don't know like is it possible that biological
02:33:37.120males can feel like they are women i don't know i don't know sorry sorry about that i i don't know
02:33:43.500because i'm not a biological male who feels like a woman so i don't have that experience so i think
02:33:48.760i think gender dysphoria is a real thing this is what this is what this is what i have a problem with
02:33:53.680okay okay so there are people who say my son feels like a girl yeah okay yeah i don't yeah i don't
02:34:02.140agree with that okay but then i would ask even the the person who's young or the person who's old
02:34:06.820they could be wrong i would ask how do you know what it feels like to be a girl
02:34:10.140um i think people look i don't i think if people like know what it feels like to be a girl i think
02:34:16.720especially those younger ages kids say stuff that like oh yeah i thought i was a i thought i was a
02:34:21.740monkey of course i told my parents and i think i think it's possible also that if boys are expressing
02:34:26.380they want to be a girl they might just actually be expressing i like girls and i like girls they could be
02:34:30.960so i so i'm a i'm i guess not of the view that like if a if a young boy expresses anything a desire
02:34:38.560to be in accordance with anything that is typically associated with the female sex that we should
02:34:42.380start treating him like a woman or start identifying him right a woman right but that's the thing is
02:34:47.980like um to bring it back to feminism at least you acknowledge in order to have feminism you at least
02:34:55.560need uh a little bit more of a rigid position on categories between men and women because otherwise
02:35:01.860you couldn't argue that women are being oppressed if you can't tell me what any of those are well i
02:35:06.800don't i i i can understand the kind of appeal of that kind of like framework like how how can you be a
02:35:13.940feminist if you don't even know what a woman is but i think that it's also true that you can
02:35:17.800acknowledge that there's there is ambiguity between categories that they're the kind of is and there
02:35:22.680maybe might not necessarily always be a fact of the matter that we can like no like i don't know
02:35:27.960like how many how many grains of sand does it take to make i don't i think because i think because you
02:35:33.180can point to a some threshold where you might find ambiguity i don't think that's what's going to
02:35:39.380inform all of our decisions it's more so that we're going to be informed by typical things right we
02:35:45.940don't we like like it might be the case we all see the red green and uh yellow lights at the stop
02:35:52.240sign differently but all some threshold uh some some frequency of those reflections but that
02:35:58.380wouldn't it wouldn't follow that we suddenly have to come up with names for each of the different ways
02:36:03.140and we see the yellow for everybody right sure so that's why i'm thinking like well my view which
02:36:09.240is counter to feminism is based on uh what's typical and what's typical um that's why forced
02:36:15.880doctrine is argued so well is because you're arguing for what's typically the case descriptively
02:36:22.100you're not making a claim that it ought to be that way but feminism if it counters how it actually is
02:36:29.240i think the the strong statement i make is that feminism is actually a lie it's actually lying to
02:36:34.800women i no i i don't look i i don't i really i really don't see and you know you can try to explain
02:36:41.700again how you're getting from the descriptive claim that you know because men are stronger
02:36:47.740they will like always be appealed to with force or like because they have force they will always
02:36:53.680need to be appealed to that that is like that that that in and of itself means that women should not
02:37:00.800have like the same opportunities to certain things i'm not look i'm not saying that women should have
02:37:05.340equal access to the military and we should completely absolve all standards to include them like that's not
02:37:10.340i think that's not what i'm getting at but i think there are certain fields for example like i i don't
02:37:14.580buy the idea that there are significant scientific differences between the intellects of men and women
02:37:21.540that justify excluding them from fields like the sciences so some of the data i was bringing up that
02:37:26.320i thought was important was that when there are mixed gendered teams it leads to more innovative
02:37:30.440research novel research and it leads to the the research being more influential and i think that's a good
02:37:35.480thing and that's why i think we should encourage more women to be involved in science men to be
02:37:39.900involved in science collaborate together do you want the smartest women to multiply themselves
02:37:44.240smartest women i think people in general yeah i think i think i think it's good for individuals to
02:37:50.560okay well that's the thing is like even if you no one's arguing women we should stop it and they
02:37:56.920stop them from doing all these things it's just that what's happening is that the culture has reached
02:38:03.220a point where there's been so much shoved down the the men and women growing up in in uh public school
02:38:10.300that there's this like equality thing and then and then women should go pursue their dreams and
02:38:15.960there's they're steered away from childhood absent the parents at home countering what they're
02:38:22.340for they're they're learning in school but let me just finish this is that if you just said well
02:38:28.340there's a bunch of smart women there were exceptions and i think they should be in the stem fields and i think
02:38:32.100i don't think there are exceptions though whatever it is well no there's no there's smart people are
02:38:36.120exceptions for men and women in those fields the question i'm having is even if you found the
02:38:41.020smartest people wouldn't it wouldn't it be beneficial for them to have children instead not instead no
02:38:46.400not instead up to a point you're gonna have to figure out what's more important for women men and
02:38:52.100women are different in they're in different positions the reason is it's not just the force
02:38:56.540doctrine it's that women for them to fulfill uh on what let's say want to have kids for them to
02:39:04.760fulfill on there is a time period for men there's not as much well i think i think it would be
02:39:09.860beneficial to societally impose that type of time period so for example i think paternity leave should
02:39:15.860be something that is more widespread i think that what about permanent oh paternity oh no i i'm
02:39:22.080saying i thought you meant maternity no paternity i think men should take time off work to be with
02:39:26.800their kids as well i think that's important i think men and women should spend time with their
02:39:31.200kids in their formative years i think that's beneficial so no you're just permanent maternity
02:39:36.100leave no i mean yeah you don't want women to work i i want yeah i think i think i think there should
02:39:40.920be a massive because you think it's all force and i'm not arguing that most of the people i argue
02:39:46.040with uh who are on my side of the this uh argument aren't talking about force they're talking
02:39:51.620about reinstating massive levels of of propaganda essentially right that that shows the beauty
02:40:01.200and the joy and the fulfillment of mothering for women to see in opposition to what they mostly see
02:40:09.640why are they seeing that right now seeing the opposite yes what do you mean because the arm of
02:40:15.840propaganda is left-leaning and progressive that's sure but but why why is that the pushback why are
02:40:21.680they seeing messages of you can be whatever you want you can go out you can do because of disney
02:40:26.900because of disney why are why are people doing that why would people i guess on my who are sympathetic
02:40:32.600to my view feel it is necessary to tell women hey you can have a career because you cannot center
02:40:38.740your life around your children and that's okay it's because before that and i guess you want to
02:40:43.920return to that is a view where it is very you should center your family i'm saying that's
02:40:48.840inevitable i'm saying that the return to that is inevitable because you run out of people
02:40:54.580yes we're running out of people okay is it possible oliver hold on is it possible that
02:41:01.080people like you and the whole bullhorn of academia and hollywood coming down on the women and saying
02:41:07.520go be a boss babe don't be a wife that's so weak uh portraying hold on hold on let me finish you're
02:41:14.140portraying them portraying these women as dumb weak right nope uh submissive this is bad right
02:41:21.440well maybe it's a good thing for women to be submissive you'd ever hear that feminist argument
02:41:25.460wait why is that the case hold on because if women want to be submissive they why is it missing
02:41:32.540from the feminist machine propaganda machine that being submissive could be feminine empowering
02:41:37.500i don't actually think it is it's oh really yes absolutely i think that from largely from feminism
02:41:44.000what it says is that women should have agency in the choices they make here's a really good example
02:41:49.120of it and i don't know how much we can talk about this because it kind of gets raunchy but i think a
02:41:52.680big um a big part of this is kind of like fetishes and things like that and things like people like so
02:41:57.300for example some women you know like to be degraded in that type of sense in a sexual setting
02:42:02.300we don't view that as anti-feminist because they're making a choice to do something that
02:42:07.080they enjoy which is engage in a type of fantasy however it's entirely still based on their
02:42:13.200scent and based on what they want so in that sense this is exactly the point is that feminism
02:42:20.100uh you're calling it an apparatus that's judged by an ethical paradigm right now you're talking about
02:42:25.400your ethical paradigm about feminism your own ethical paradigm that's judging feminism would
02:42:30.220would allow for basically posthumous sex with a cadaver so long as it was consented what do you
02:42:35.740mean posthumous after death like like like if someone consented to their body being used
02:42:40.560afterwards and there was no harm that would be fair game that actually i mean that that kind of is my
02:42:45.440philosophical worldview i do take a very harm-based approach and it does have some counterintuitive
02:42:50.300implications you know i i think that there are instrumental reasons i've actually had a lot of
02:42:55.040conversations within philosophy just about this in particular it might be instrumental reasons why we don't
02:42:59.080want to do that but i don't think there's something like inherently wrong with it great so if your
02:43:03.160if your worldview that's telling the audience why feminism is good includes maybe large amounts of
02:43:09.800companies renting out cadavers and that being totally fine in the same paradigm uh why would you mean like
02:43:15.600people renting out dead bodies basically some of some of the worst atrocious behaviors whether it's
02:43:22.020after you know you cadaver stuff or um the rise in pornography with young girls basically one out of
02:43:29.620ten women from like 25 to 30 have a only fans account because they're told it's empowering dude i think the
02:43:37.140reason no hold on i think the reason that they're told that it's empowering is because it is it is what
02:43:42.420it is it's a pushback against is it empowering what is it empowering i don't i'm not them i don't know it
02:43:48.180depends on the should we how it depends on the woman look oliver oliver wait if you're gonna you
02:43:53.300look look look look i'm a new i'm a father right you're treating women homogenous hold on i'm a
02:43:57.700father here no no i'm talking to you to a single model hold on i'm a man okay i'm coming to you
02:44:03.380yeah i'm gonna hey oliver i heard your feminist views i want some uh i want some advice when should
02:44:09.460i tell my daughters to if it's empowering to them when should i tell them about their option of being
02:44:14.820only fans hold on what when did we say that it was necessarily empowering i asked you you didn't
02:44:20.260answer because it isn't because you can't should we teach it it should be an option for women
02:44:28.100it's when should we teach that as an option you know what you know i asked this hold on oliver
02:44:31.940because you just said three minutes ago you said people like me are coming in and saying you can do
02:44:37.380this you can do this you're a bunch of snakes on the on the on the tree right and eden so you're going
02:44:42.580going you can do this you can do this think about this why don't you include pornography
02:44:47.940if women want to do pornography that's fine yeah but why don't you advocate for it i think we should
02:44:52.740teach it as a legitimate form of you know work when absolutely because because because my kids
02:44:58.840my kids hold on my kids ask me what i do for work they ask uh what does other people do for work
02:45:04.140right at what age you should you should be honest with them like i don't know if you're on these shows
02:45:08.660and for example like the whatever podcast and you're on the show and your kids ask you hey what
02:45:12.420a lot of these girls do what do you tell them no i'm not answering that question okay so i mean i
02:45:16.900in a sense i guess then you're lying or withholding information uh yeah withhold information because i
02:45:21.220have to protect the my my kids right i think so so the question is when when mommy comes home from work
02:45:28.340right and they have school day right because this is what you're actually advocating for i don't think so
02:45:33.220mommy goes to school with with kid day and they get to talk about what they do for work okay you're
02:45:40.180totally fine with the mother going to school at whatever age let's say it's like fifth grade we're
02:45:45.220not taking off all her clothes jesus no no telling the kids what they do in explicit detail no well what
02:45:51.860do you mean why not what do you because we know why not oliver what do you the girls need to know
02:45:57.700how they could be liberated no but i'm not saying that's inherently liberatory for women it doesn't
02:46:02.500inherently liberate them but it also doesn't inherently make them not oh really i agree no
02:46:06.580here we go let me say this i do think that it is a problem of people being pushed into these fields
02:46:11.860because it's an easy way for them to make a dollar and probably a lot of them don't find
02:46:16.180it fulfilling i would agree with you on that however i would disagree in making this generalized
02:46:22.420statement that none of them find it fulfilling or it being a thing i don't care what they think is
02:46:27.540fulfilling or not the question is you're deciding what's best for them over over them yeah yeah is it
02:46:32.980possible is it possible that possible for that they're wrong it is also possible that you are
02:46:37.380wrong so when it comes to decisions about someone's life i'm going to defer to them oh really what about
02:46:41.780when they're children what i'm not saying that you should let people say these all over oliver i didn't
02:46:47.780ask about talent saying it to children you said when you are talking about what other people should do
02:46:52.820with their bodies or not you're going to defer to them i asked about children what does a thought
02:46:57.540what do you mean about what does a father do of course you can protect your kids i'm not saying
02:47:01.300don't protect your children okay but the thing is if being a father of your home means um guiding
02:47:07.300and intervening on the path of your child then the best thing about about being a father is is
02:47:13.700actually the intervention part on what they quote want right i'm not gonna tell my kid to be a porn
02:47:19.220star i'm not trying to fight that bullet i didn't ask you that because the the question is
02:47:24.580right you are making the claim that when it comes to other people and they what they want to do i'm
02:47:31.620not going to come in and say they shouldn't do it i'm not here's here's how i would view it i am not
02:47:38.020a woman and i don't i would not view sex work as something that i would want to do because of that
02:47:42.900and because i don't understand it i would not tell my kids to do something that i don't understand
02:47:47.860and isn't if for example i don't know if for example i don't know i have a family member and
02:47:52.980they are in that industry and we have conversations about that and they tell me and my kids want to
02:47:57.780learn about that from this family member i would i would i would i would want to be present in that
02:48:02.340conversation so that i can you know okay i think what you're saying is not true in this way and we
02:48:06.580should have a full holistic picture about this but i don't think that like we should withhold
02:48:12.180information from like children in in the sense that they should we can teach kids about sex how
02:48:18.900do you teach teach kids about sex and and about you know the importance of consent the importance
02:48:23.860of that we don't have to teach them to be poor tell me tell me i don't think this is i didn't even say
02:48:27.700like i'm asking why in your view why wouldn't you say why wouldn't you teach that if you were to say
02:48:34.820if you were to advocate for a young girl to go into stem would you do that yeah okay what i'm not i'm not i'm
02:48:41.140not trying to and this is you're not going to pin me into this corner i know i'm not trying to
02:48:45.380argue that all forms of work like societally are seen as like equally liberatory dude it's simple
02:48:52.900it's so so simple your view of feminism is women having the choice to do anything that's quote legal
02:48:58.820right no no that's not true why not what do you mean legal how's that not empowering from your
02:49:03.140view i think there are some things that are legal that women shouldn't do like what um i think that
02:49:08.020for example people can have moral obligations so for example i would say that um if my if a woman
02:49:14.020in my life had a family member who had a very serious condition and they needed a blood transfusion
02:49:18.820in order to survive and the woman in my life was uniquely qualified because of blood type or something
02:49:22.900like that i would probably tell her you should you should you should help them out you should do
02:49:26.500that you should you know help them out in that way it wouldn't be legally it wouldn't be legally
02:49:30.580if they could should not be legally obligated to do that but i think morally they would have
02:49:33.940what about a shouldn't they shouldn't do that no no no what about give me an example of a shouldn't
02:49:38.580something women shouldn't do or i but i hear i would apply it to men and women so i'm not making
02:49:43.300like the women shouldn't do this like because they're women it's women shouldn't do this because
02:49:47.300their people and people in general should not do this so for example i don't think doing hard
02:49:51.380drugs is a good thing i don't think doing heroin is probably a good thing for most people um so
02:49:56.500i would i would advise women and men to not do that that doesn't therefore follow from it that i
02:50:00.660think it should be illegal for a lot of other instrumental consequences that i think would
02:50:04.100follow from laws of that nature i think it would make the problem worse so yeah there's an example
02:50:10.420wait is that the same reasoning you you were against you were against making post-death cadaver sex
02:50:18.020illegal because there's some other things that might make it worse like i mean so this is this and
02:50:23.940it's it's really hard to have like like like meta philosophical conversations on these types of
02:50:29.460podcasts because what's going to happen is if i try to defend my philosophical view on its merits
02:50:34.820you're going to blow it out of proportion and be like he supports people fucking dead well people
02:50:38.900and it's just like it's not no i don't say support i'm saying allow i don't i didn't say it i just
02:50:46.020asked you under your view if it's based on harm principle i don't think people should do it
02:50:50.740and and here and the reason i don't you make it illegal though what i think it probably would be
02:50:55.300illegal and the reason for that and the reason for that is because i think there's a very very
02:50:59.060very very high likelihood of instrumental harm um for example i don't think people want their dead
02:51:04.820loved ones to well that's true but unless they made a lot of money and then the harm was countered
02:51:11.780in their view because if they're alive well yeah if the family got together and said hey grandma's
02:51:17.620coming over you know she's on her way out and she wants to talk to us and she says i want to i'm
02:51:22.900gonna do this for the family do what uh basically give her body out after death for a week to for
02:51:29.060anyone to rent it out or whatever and the family goes cool we'll be rich like hawk to a and it's
02:51:34.500kind of weird weird isn't isn't really a counter to whether it's consistent with your ethical paradigm
02:51:39.620yeah and here's the thing is i don't use weirdness as a criterion for what i think should be
02:51:44.340prohibited like i don't i don't i don't know there's a lot of cases of what is called moral
02:51:49.780dumbfounding where we think something is wrong but we can't point to a specific reason as to why
02:51:54.100it's wrong so yeah this this is this is weird i don't i don't know i'd be like okay let's put it
02:52:00.660another way do you think under your ethical framework people can act against themselves and it be morally
02:52:06.340wrong doesn't harm anyone else just just all self-contained i i would say yes but it's because
02:52:15.620what they do i don't i don't believe it is like a lot like possible to live in a universe where
02:52:21.060what you do like self-regarding actions i think everything you do has an effect it's like doing
02:52:24.740drugs okay should you be able to do these hard drugs like well probably maybe you shouldn't because it
02:52:29.940will still have these effects well that's that's why i asked about the the what i call an epidemic of
02:52:36.740young girls and by the way men are still part of this uh the consumption element of it but girls think
02:52:43.700these young girls are being basically trained through feminism first right this is this is the
02:52:48.560result these are the fruits of feminism teaches feminism early on uh you're gonna have a radical
02:52:53.720change you're gonna have the the sexual revolution you're gonna have the drug revolution and then you're
02:52:59.460going to part ways with the traditional lifestyle of christian values and ethics in the home so then
02:53:05.060what happens is you get this mass amount of technology you know to express yourself you run you run
02:53:12.520head first hold on fair enough head first into it and now they think because of all of the the the
02:53:19.500propaganda the pop stars they're all they're all disgusting right you're and so now the little kids
02:53:25.620the the poor little girls go well that's how i have to be now right think no and that's all feminism
02:53:31.260dude that's not traditionalism that's feminism and i think you're doing a very good job
02:53:36.520at portraying feminism in its worst possible light where's the good where's the good one hold on the
02:53:42.820good one is encouraging women to be doctors the good one is encouraging women to go into those
02:53:47.840careers why would that be why is that better than pornography from your why is that better than
02:53:52.000pornography i don't know so so why are we listening to you then no because look if a woman wants
02:53:58.980i don't here's the thing and here's the reason maybe why i'm able to say why i think it would be
02:54:05.000good for a woman to become a doctor but maybe not to do only fans it's because i can i can
02:54:11.040conceptualize of the good of me being a doctor i really can't conceptualize the good of me being
02:54:16.900on only fans okay but so i don't know i i would i would have to talk with certain individuals like
02:54:23.080certain individuals who were involved in this industry like i just i don't know i don't want to
02:54:27.160make these blanket statements that we have to choose between i'm just being in the home or being sex
02:54:31.980workers i think there i don't think it's a dichotomy i think there's so much great i'm not
02:54:35.480presenting a dichotomy i'm doing a reductio no i'm saying no it's not a reductio if we accept
02:54:39.660feminism we have to accept that every single woman it's actually not a reductio whenever they when you
02:54:44.100know it doesn't actually it's not actually reduce you to absurdity though you're actually consistent
02:54:48.720that you would say yeah uh teaching young girls that that's an option to get into pornography
02:54:54.660would be empowering and in line with feminism i think you you could teach them that it is something
02:54:59.960that people do but be honest about it and i'm not i'm not a fan of the porn industry i agree it's
02:55:06.120incredibly exploitative and i agree that it has a lot of problems but so like i don't i think there
02:55:11.680there's a reasons to be instrumentally against the porn industry and how it targets and exploits
02:55:17.120young girls but i don't think that that that we should like pretend for like people that it doesn't
02:55:23.100exist yeah but is don't you ever think about uh internally i know you're said you can't really put
02:55:28.940pinpoint what it is about it but why is it that even you yourself who's advocating for just like
02:55:34.800sort of like liberated woman um you still advocate for more wholesome uh useful because that's what i'm
02:55:45.020familiar with dude i'm arguing only from my worldview and perspective and the reality is is there's a lot
02:55:51.260of things that i see sorry yeah sorry there's a lot of things that i see and that i don't understand
02:55:55.660that yeah i'm my first response is i don't get that that's weird and my initial response to it is
02:56:02.540it's weird i don't understand it i don't like it therefore it shouldn't be something that we allow
02:56:07.340and i think that's a bad basis for me basing a moral framework i think disgust is a very poor metric
02:56:15.420of determining what is good and what is bad it might be uh not sufficient but i don't think it's entirely
02:56:21.000invalid i don't think it's entirely invalid i agree with you but i don't know like one could uh like
02:56:27.040for example i don't know like let's say some one person thinks seeing like people who are overweight
02:56:31.000having sex is disgusting they'd never want to see that that there's i don't want that's not evidence
02:56:36.780whatsoever at all that there's anything wrong with people who are overweight having sex like
02:56:40.940whatsoever like it's not it's not like what like i don't know about that i i would i might argue
02:56:46.940that um that being overweight or like super obese might be an ethical issue if you hold the view
02:56:55.160that uh your own body is uh let's say like a like an icon of god or an expression people and people
02:57:01.940should should take care of themselves would you agree that also there are certain at least conditions
02:57:05.480and body types that it just some some people are just bigger you know what i mean yeah no matter how
02:57:09.980no i agree no no no matter how much yeah i agree they just they shouldn't be allowed to have sex
02:57:14.680are you are you i'm just kidding well i mean it's if you're gonna say that women shouldn't have the
02:57:19.820right to vote and then you say like fat people shouldn't have sex it's not too far off from
02:57:23.200what you no no no women voting is way more harmful to society what the things they vote for is
02:57:28.920this is how i know this is how i know this is how i know that there's a specific difference is that
02:57:35.820again you're going to be able to find exceptions okay you're gonna have to just use some charity
02:57:40.940here what women vote for since like i don't know the 50s since onward right they vote according to
02:57:49.480their sort of nurturing traits and what they do is they turn the this is the irony hold on this is
02:57:54.840the irony of specific examples i will they they expand this is the irony you're arguing against this
02:58:01.200authoritative power right the the man coming down right on freedom and liberty for women
02:58:05.460women vote it with patterns that expand authoritarian government and uh basically examples
02:58:13.560you're very big general gun gun gun laws they vote in protection they they vote for let's say
02:58:20.000generally safety over liberty they they vote safety over liberty uh gun laws is a perfect example
02:58:26.720okay um a lot of them vote uh pro-abortion okay right what is that well that's that's what do you
02:58:34.120mean that's against them how is that against them they're they're annihilating their own kids what
02:58:39.080you mean how is that on an act against you i don't think that people should be pregnant against their
02:58:42.460will what do you mean they got sex what are you talking about i mean first off there's a big jump
02:58:47.160to say that just because someone consented to sex they consented to pregnancy uh no it does follow
02:58:51.440no how does it follow that follows the same way getting into a car you consented to possibly get
02:58:56.300into an accident okay and if you possibly get into an accident does it therefore mean that you should
02:58:59.760have to use your body to sustain the life of the person that you got into an accident with by law
02:59:04.040what do you mean you're saying it's not a person i'm not no i'm not saying that actually no you
02:59:08.120can't i'm saying no no you can you can make a bodily rights argument for abortion that doesn't
02:59:12.500deny fetal personhood it's something that judith jarvis thompson no no she doesn't she can't
02:59:16.600she can't tell me what a person no who cares about judith she doesn't even know what a person is
02:59:20.540what do you how what do you mean by that how she she grants to you whatever your view of a person is
02:59:25.020she says we don't even need to discuss that in the abortion debate we can have a conversation
02:59:28.420directly surrounding bodily rights really so why does the doctor uh save the the non-person then
02:59:34.400what do you mean the doctor saved the surgeon the woman gets in an accident right and a feminist says
02:59:39.860well i'm not denying it's a person no but why is the doctor obligated to save the not the person well
02:59:45.780what do you mean if it's not a person i'm not saying it's not a person you're ascribing to me this
02:59:50.900view oh oh i see do you know you so see the person who's about to abort their baby doesn't see it as a
02:59:57.040person but you do some people some people don't and some people they're they're very different
03:00:01.180they're a lot of they get to decide on the spot there are a lot of aspects of the abortion debate
03:00:05.240cool one of them so so so it's like this dude there's there's two women who are pregnant right
03:00:09.800same same level of pregnancy they both get into an accident and the doctor determine it doesn't
03:00:15.140determine it's not dependent it's not dependent on what they think it's not dependent on what they
03:00:18.600think it's not it's not dependent on what they think personhood is not a
03:00:21.820the surgeon saves both of them right i mean ideally sure they should yeah right what if
03:00:27.580they decide not to what do you mean what if they determine that like that's not a baby so this is
03:00:32.020basically the argument of why is uh abortion a double homicide if it's not a person type thing or
03:00:36.080wife i mean that could be used so think about it this way if we're talking about this idea of like
03:00:39.640rendering life-saving care if for example you agree to allow someone the use of your kidneys for a
03:00:44.540period of time and you're willing to save their life let's say you're generously you're like oh you
03:00:48.720know what this is either a family member or something like that i'm going to generously allow
03:00:51.420this person to do that and a gunman comes in and kills both of you they've still done something
03:00:56.020wrong but if you were to say i don't consent to my body being used in this way it's very painful i
03:01:00.840don't want to do that anymore and you quote unquote unplug from them or something or no longer you cease
03:01:05.300the consent you haven't you haven't murdered them yeah but you're you're including there's another body
03:01:11.760sure but just i'm not denying that there's not so it's a contradiction i'm not denying that there's
03:01:16.060another body i'm denying that other bodies have a right to use your body without your consent
03:01:20.880that's what i'm saying the look if abortion is getting rid of the other body and your argument
03:01:27.780is you can't violate this woman using her body right like the way she wants to use her body sure
03:01:34.300you can't use the body autonomy and leave out the other body wait you aren't you're agreeing that
03:01:40.020there's two bodies it's the same reason you can't be forced to donate your kidney against your will
03:01:43.980even if you get into an accident that requires someone the use of your kidney you're not denying that
03:01:49.420two bodies exist you're saying that one body doesn't have a right to the other body there's
03:01:55.780no rights okay i don't know i don't know why you keep appealing to these things i'm appealing to
03:02:00.980societal intuitions that we largely hold if you want to reject everything that we basis like society on
03:02:06.420and go off on your own tangent then i don't know how to engage in this conversation well i'm saying
03:02:09.780like you're assuming there's these that you're because you're using metaphysical terms societal norms
03:02:14.440yeah yeah but do you agree generally those if those change under your parenting do you agree
03:02:18.840that generally people should not be forced against their will to donate an organ it depends on the
03:02:25.640situation oh my god fine well you were talking about generalities right you're talking constantly
03:02:29.300about generalities yeah generally speaking should it be wrong for someone to have an organ taken from
03:02:34.580them or used without their consent yes or no generally yeah okay cool so that's a principle under which
03:02:40.400i'm operating on so once we get that principle out of the way and we can say but a baby's not an organ
03:02:45.380dude i'm the baby's not the organ in question the uterus is the organ in question and the baby
03:02:49.960they're not getting rid of the uterus no they're using the uterus they're renting you're evicting them
03:02:56.180i mean so you invited so you invited a person into your home and then you're like i just i want to
03:03:02.360i just want to eat the person well not exactly i'm just going to kill the person who i invited into
03:03:07.100my home by opening my legs no first off it's not actually i think there are and this might get
03:03:11.520they're really interesting literature on this specifically i think an analogous scenario to
03:03:15.960pregnancy and of course you're probably going to reject this is imagine that you are having lunch
03:03:20.820with someone um and you're eating and they start choking and you give them the heimlich maneuver and
03:03:25.160save their life and in the process you rupture you know their kidney you puncture their lungs something
03:03:30.460like that and then they require your body to continue living in that scenario do you think that
03:03:36.140you have some sort of like you should be legally required to use your body in that scenario
03:03:40.260i wouldn't be opposed to it really okay i mean i just i i would not share that
03:03:47.500thing whatsoever because you generously tried to save their life well the thing is
03:03:51.540it would be to me it would be awesome to live in a society where someone would be so willing to do that
03:03:57.620they i mean one could argue it would be super erogatory but that's for but that's for saving a life
03:04:03.700that's what's so so different about this view is that we're talking about saving lives and what you
03:04:08.860would do or what's required which is a totally different um system of thinking than whether or
03:04:14.400not women like for instance let's just let's forget it let's shift to just this this question because
03:04:19.980to bring it back to feminism how is women being able to destroy the baby that's growing inside of
03:04:27.980them how is that how is that good oh there's water down here sorry about that all good sorry would
03:04:37.740you mind how is it good for women to yeet their offspring because i think women should have a
03:04:44.420choice when and where they in situations they get pregnant i don't think people should be pregnant
03:04:49.080i don't think people should be pregnant against their will it's fine taking a brief uh pause here
03:04:53.080yeah that's fine i want to do uh we can come right back to it though if you want to just uh
03:04:57.760make a note on that i want to read a couple chats here uh we have just by the way tts has been lowered
03:05:03.820uh to 69 dollar tts if you guys want to get it in we're going to read a couple chats here so we have