Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

- April 23, 1996, a 19-year-old woman named Stacey Stites – who was engaged to be married to a police officer in a few weeks – was found dead in a field in Bastrop, Texas.

- Before being murdered, Stacey had been brutally beaten, raped, and sodomized.

- Her fiancé – Jimmy Fennell – fell asleep at 9pm; she left for work at 3am; her mother heard her leave.

- She and her fiancé had only one car; she drove 35m.

- The truck was found abandoned at the town’s local high school – only a few blocks from Rodney Reed’s grandmother’s home.

- Her official cause of death: asphyxiation (strangulation) with a belt.

- Her fiancé was the first suspect – last to see her alive.

- But – how could he get to the murder scene, leave the truck at a school, and then somehow travel 30 miles home within a few hours to answer his landline at 6:45am?

- According to information on the Supreme Court’s website, Rodney Reed is responsible for a number of sexual assaults – he only became a suspect in his 1998 conviction because he attempted to rape another woman – Linda Schlueter – six months after Stites.

- 3am, same location, same route, same MO.

- According to page five of the U.S. Supreme Court’s report:
“Reed became a suspect in Stites’s murder after he was arrested for kidnapping, beating, and attempting to rape and murder another nineteen-year-old woman, Linda Schlueter. Schlueter was abducted by Reed approximately six months after Stites’s murder, near both the route Stites typically took to work and the time she disappeared—3:00 a.m.. Moreover, Reed was regularly seen in this area by Bastrop police officers in the early morning hours, and his home was close to where both Stites’s and Schlueter’s vehicles were abandoned.”
Reed was already known to police for reportedly raping his intellectually disabled girlfriend Caroline Rivas...

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"I feel I may as well be blunt about this and tell you that at a very young age I was informed I was essentially a [x] baby. As I grew older, outside of the physical abuse I frequently dealt with, the most scarring for me was when "you're acting just like your father" or other such comments like that. It's something that truly plagues me and has definitely affected me person romantic life as I've only had 1 relationship and she herself was physically abusive. My main question is, a child of such a situation, how do I find it in myself to tell myself I deserve to have my own family, because the fear of how similar I may be to my father having never met him plagues me..."

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Hi Stefan,

I'm a stay-at-home-mom with two little boys and a girl on the way. I've been married to my husband for over ten years and we've been together for over twelve years. I've been a homemaker for over three years now. I was able to quit my full time desk job when my oldest boy was two years old after my husband started making really good money as a salesman.

The reason I'm contacting you is because I'm struggling pretty badly with my not-so-new position as a homemaker. I know it probably has a lot to do with my mother in some way because of how she raised me and my sisters, but I can't figure out why I'm so lazy, why I don't take advantage of my perfect circumstances, and why I feel that I have no connection to my kids.

I'm so frustrated with myself in general. I can't seem to keep my house even presentable for unexpected guests, I'm supposed to be homeschooling my six-year-old but on most days I struggle to get anything done with him regarding school work, and this third pregnancy has me very hormonal and hyper-sensitive. Anything and everything overwhelms me, and I feel like no matter how hard I try, I will never be an even half-way decent mother or homemaker.

We have three dogs that I feel like I can't even handle, one that's still got a puppy bladder and I can barely keep up with the messes he makes every night while we're all asleep. And one that barks incessantly and I wish I could get rid of but can't because it was break my oldest son's heart.

Sometimes I feel like I won't be able to handle being a mom of three. I can't even handle being a mom of two with dogs and a house to take care of, which I don't even take care of. I'm lazy, self absorbed, and failing miserably at doing what I feel most homemakers probably love doing: taking care of their kids, cooking delicious, healthy meals, educating their children, and keeping a comfortable, clean house. I long to be this kind of woman, but most days I feel like it's as unattainable as being a supermodel. I fantasize about my home being spotless, well-organized, about homeschooling my kids in a perfect little schoolroom, about taking care of my family, but it's just that: a dream. One that on some days I'm able to achieve a tiny little part of, but on most, I'm just an anxious, neurotic, lazy mess.

I just want to be a good mom for my kids and a good homemaker and I don't understand why I can't even though I desperately want to. Please help me talk through my issues so I can resolve this and start being the mother my kids deserve.

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One of the greatest challenges of having a public conversation about complex philosophical topics is the wide differences in expertise between those new to the conversation, and those well-versed in prior arguments and evidence.

Formal education deals with this problem by requiring mastery of more basic skills before being exposed to more challenging topics.

That does not happen in a podcast.

I want to provide enough challenging topics to maintain the interest of long-term listeners – while not simultaneously alienating new listeners. I have to teach intro to philosophy – as well as intermediate and advanced philosophy – all at the same time.

In particular, I let listeners guide the conversation during call in shows. I gauge the level of expertise of the listener, and respond accordingly.

Now – one trick of my attackers is to take a more advanced conclusion, and present it without any of the prior arguments and evidence.

This way, the conclusion can be perceived as shocking or offensive.

Group differences in IQ exist, and have been well-validated for over a century. I am far from alone from discussing these realities – Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, Douglas Murray – as well as many other public intellectuals – have talked about these facts.

However, the discussion has been often viciously suppressed – partly so that the conclusions can be presented as “shocking” and “racist.”

But here is the reality:

I’m not particularly interested in race.

I am, however, interested in peace, which brought me to the topic quite a few years ago.

Racial conflicts are quite high.

Why?

Group differences exist in a meritocracy, and meritocracy exists in both natural and man-made environments.

If I try to survive unaided in Africa, I will not do very well. Prior to modern technology and medicine, the average white European only survived for 11 months in Africa.

The meritocracy in modern Western market economies is largely conceptual and intellectual.

In a free market, IQ is a strong predictor of financial success.

Financial success is not everything in life – the rich are not “better” than the poor – and should have no more rights or privileges – but wealth differences are easily measurable, and can cause great resentment.

Ashkenazi Jews, East Asians, whites, Hispanics, blacks, pygmies and the indigenous population of Australia all have different IQs as groups.

As I have constantly reiterated, we can never justly judge an individual by group averages.

Men are on average taller than women, but we cannot rationally predict whether any INDIVIDUAL woman will be taller than any individual man.

We have a problem – a challenge – in society, which is that different groups in society have different levels of education, income, home ownership, total assets and so on.

When I say that it is “insane” to ascribe ALL differences in group outcomes to racism and bigotry, I really mean it – but it assumes a certain understanding of facts long suppressed.

What do I mean by this?

Well – men go to jail far more often the women.

Is that just because the legal system is sexist and biased against men?

No.

There are very few Chinese or Japanese athletes in the NBA – which is disproportionately black.

Is that because the NBA is racist against Chinese or Japanese athletes?

Of course not.

IQ has correlations to income, educational achievement, criminality, marital stability and a wide variety of other social and economic outcomes.

Group variations in IQ produce many group differences in outcomes.

These group differences are significant, and troubling.

No society can utterly ignore these differences.

And here’s what’s most important: different ideologies will provide different explanations.

The most prevalent current explanation for economic ethnic differences is white privilege and white racism.

This explanation is false.

If whites are so racist against non-whites, why do East Asians and Indian immigrants make more money than whites in majority-white countries?

Why do East Asians across the world make so much money?

If whites are racists against blacks, why do black immigrants to majority-white countries make so much more money than African-Americans?

The answer usually provided is the “legacy of oppression.”

European Jews were oppressed for centuries in the West – culminating in the horrors of the Holocaust, which was certainly worse than slavery in most respects.

Yet when European Jews came to America – often not speaking English and with little or no money – very rapidly achieved income parity with whites.

Japanese-Americans were stripped of property and thrown into concentration camps under FDR – yet their incomes remains higher than the white average.

If it’s just that whites unreasonably hate blacks, why are so many black artists and politicians loved and celebrated? How could Barack Obama have been elected?

No – the “racism plus oppression” narrative is incorrect.

And dangerous.

If groups that remain less wealthy in a market meritocracy are constantly told that whites hate them and stole from them, and continue to oppress them at every opportunity, then the stage is set for a racial war.

Can you imagine the horrors of such an outcome?

What if these escalations could be prevented?

What if we could all get along?

Philosophically, the only place human beings can meet and negotiate is in objective reality, using reason and evidence.

We don’t have to hate each other.

I want us all to get along.

How are we going to do that?

For over half a century, we have tried to eliminate group differences by redistributing income and shaming whites for endless “racism.”

Has it worked?

Absolutely not.

Because it is the wrong approach.

It misdiagnoses the problem, and so provides the wrong solution.

The problem is that different ethnicities have – on average – different brain volumes, different reaction times, and different average IQs.

What is the cause of this?

There is no way to answer this with absolute certainty.

Sub-species separated by tens of thousands of years – and inhabiting regions as different as sub-Saharan Africa and Siberia – have adapted in different ways to local environments.

The human brain is not somehow magically excluded from the effects of evolution.

However, even if we never discover the cause, it doesn’t matter much in how we deal with the current realities.

If we never discover the detailed causes for the relative shortness of East Asians, it still doesn’t change the fact that there will still be fewer professional East Asian basketball players.

The central answer to group differences is IQ differences.

IQ differences explain why Jews make more than East Asians, who in turn make more than whites, who in turn make more than Hispanics, who in turn make more than blacks, who in turn make more than Australian aboriginals, and so on.

IQ differences explain why highly motivated and intelligent immigrants make more money than whites in America.

By our late teens, IQ is 80% genetic.

IQ is not everything of course – wisdom matters more than mere intelligence in the pursuit of happiness, and understanding basic philosophy is essential to living a good life. I have dedicated my life to helping people live wisely – the 650 million views and downloads of Freedomain show how powerful philosophy is for people all around the world.

I do not require that people who talk to me be previously educated in philosophy – it is MY job to bring philosophy to life for them.

We can ALL understand and appreciate basic philosophy, regardless of IQ.

Environment DOES matter of course – looking at a genetically identical group – North and South Koreans – we can clearly see that the market freedoms enjoyed by the South Koreans have made them far wealthier than the bitter enslaved poverty of their Northern brothers and sisters.

In a market meritocracy, however, group differences tend to widen.

Economic freedom highlights group differences – income inequality often increases in the free market.

Which brings us to our most essential choice.

We can continue down this path of rage and blame, of guilt and bribed appeasement – or we can start discussing facts, reality, reason and science.

I know these are difficult subjects – but, the elemental question in philosophy is: compared to what?

Many people do not understand why I focus on these issues, and imagine that I take some sort of pleasure in the topic.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

This is sad and challenging information, but I was raised to speak the truth and shame the devil – to speak the truth, though the skies should fall.

Honesty is the first virtue – for without it, no other virtues are possible.

Talking about IQ differences is not “white supremacy,” because whites fall in the middle of the IQ spectrum.

If we suppress conversations about these issues, we do NOT solve the problem of racism.

We just become racists against whites for their imagined “privilege” and “racism.”

That is unfair.

This is no-one’s fault.

No one is to blame.

We have a challenge that we need to come together to solve, to reason with together.

We are all human. Diversity should NOT divide us.

These facts can be denied, but they cannot be ignored.

I have interviewed 17 world experts in the field of human intelligence. I have assembled and presented detailed breakdowns of the data and realities of group differences.

I do not do this because I love conflict, but because I do oppose violence.

If the escalation of rage and blame for realities which are beyond the control of any individual or group continues to escalate, where does it end?

I would be very keen to NOT find that out.

I am guessing you would be too.

What is the solution?

The solution is curiosity, truth and understanding.

The solution is an energetic conversation aimed at dealing with these challenges without rage, without blame, and without violence.

All solutions must be peaceful, voluntary and in full compliance with the non-aggression principle.

In this area – as in so many others – the truth will not just set you free.

The truth will keep the peace.

Indeed, it is the only thing that can.

IQ interview series: www.fdrurl.com/IQ

The Truth About Crime: https://youtu.be/TVBJ5m3sGfk

https://atlantablackstar.com/2015/06/26/survey-shows-black-immigrants-educated-make-money-african-americans/

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Does rational philosophy have anything to say about OCD?

Hell yes!

Hello, my name is [x] and I am 23 years old.

I have had obsessive compulsive disorder for the past year and a half and I am absolutely wrecked by it day to day. It seems that everything I enjoy doing, such as activities and hobbies get wrapped up and crushed by this troubling mental disorder.

My mind completely stops and obsesses over what I am doing to the point where I would lie to myself and create scenarios that I then take as truth. I can barely sleep, I sweat profusely, and I worry constantly about things that have no matter to me and my well being. I was raised by a single mother, and left my father on my own terms as he was abusive and a mentally unstable man fueled by his alcohol and selfishness.

He caused me to grow body image issues that plagued me through my years as a child to this day. I am no longer able to function and feel unstable and I want to come back and be the way I use to be.

Please help me Stefan, I need your guidance.

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This father desperately needs help.

I offer to pay for his psychological therapy.

Listen to everything that can go wrong, and how to make it right...

Dear Stefan:

I’m an ALCOHOLIC FULL TIME SINGLE FATHER!!! NEED YOUR HELP ASAP!!!!

I apologize for any grammatical errors as I’m writing this email on my mobile device and I’m intoxicated on alcohol at the same time. My name is [X] I’m [X] years old and currently lost in life. I have 3 children of the ages of 9, 8, and 5.

I’m a full time single father. I currently live with my parents due to high rental prices in my “utopian” city.

I’m destroying my life and I want to change that because I don’t want to be a negative influence on my children. I’ve been watching your YouTube videos for the past 7 months which I came across by a fellow YouTuber by the name of [x]..."

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The whole point of "tolerance" is we have to tolerate what we sometimes feel is intolerable – there is no virtue otherwise!

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Hey, you want to hear something REALLY bad about me?

In 2014, I said: “The whole breeding arena of the species needs to be cleaned the f up!”

Was I talking about government eugenics programs?

Of course not!

I was CLEARLY talking about the need to keep abusive people away from your children.

In this speech, I ALSO explain my opposition to white supremacy, white nationalism and ANY concept of racial superiority or inferiority.

Get the facts about Stefan Molyneux!

My interviews with scientists and academics about IQ: www.fdrurl.com/IQ

The show the original quote was taken from: http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/2740/conformity-and-the-cult-of-friendship--wednesday-call-in-show-july-2nd-2014

Quote is at 3:55:13

The BOMB IN THE BRAIN series:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB3F2CF45EEB95C80

Thank you for listening to the truth!

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What did I mean in 2014 when I said: "I don't view humanity as a single species..."?

Am I biologically illiterate?

Is the statement somehow racist?

You'll be truly shocked at the TRUE FACTS behind my words...

The quote is taken from Freedomain 2768, “Collective Guilt for Fun and Profit” - a Saturday call-in show in August of 2014.

http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/2768/collective-guilt-for-fun-and-profit-saturday-call-in-show-august-9th-2014

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"CBS News has fired a female staffer believed to have had access to the tape of Amy Robach raging against ABC News, Page Six understands.

"We reported on Wednesday that ABC News chiefs discovered a former employee could be behind the leak of the damning footage of Robach slamming the network for shelving her interview with Jeffrey Epstein’s “sex slave” Virginia Roberts Giuffre. Sources told Page Six that a former staffer had access to the footage of Robach as she aired her frustrations over a hot mike — and that employee was now believed to be working at CBS.

"A TV source told us later on Wednesday that the woman was let go from CBS, after ABC execs alerted the rival network.

"ABC sources confirmed to us that they’d informed counterparts at CBS about the staffer “as a courtesy.”

"As we reported, it is not known whether the woman leaked the tape, which was recorded in July, to the Web site Project Veritas, or may have showed it to others who passed it on.

"A CBS spokesperson declined to comment on the matter.

"An ABC source had told us earlier Wednesday that the network was considering its options — but added that it was more difficult because the person no longer works there, but they did, the leak would be a “fireable offense.”

"An ABC rep commented: “We take violations of company policy very seriously, and we’re pursuing all avenues to determine the source of the leak.”

"In the leaked footage, Robach says Giuffre — who claims she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew by Epstein — “told me everything.” But that ABC “would not put [the interview] on the air.” The network said the report didn’t meet its standards, and on Tuesday a top ABC producer told NPR: “We would never run away from that … We would never kill a story about Prince Andrew. That’s what’s ridiculous on its face. That’s a great story. So if we could do that story, we would have done it!”

"Prince Andrew has denied all Giuffre’s allegations."

https://pagesix.com/2019/11/07/cbs-news-fires-staffer-who-had-access-to-leaked-amy-robach-audio/

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