When you look out at the world and you think everyone has gone insane, I want to reassure you that sanity is alive and well.  Keep your chin up and listen to story time.

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On this episode, Matt covers the logical fallacy equivocation, and assesses the complications that arise with consensus and disagreement that occur as a result of the use and abuse of the word racism.

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In this episode, Matt establishes what may be taken for granted as the existence of entities beyond yourself, or the configuration of a multi-faceted entity that comprises the self, and their relationship with the most important person in the kingdom, who safeguards the humanity of everyone.

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The third and final part of Matt's discourse on rational abstinence.  In this one, Matt will elaborate on another tool of ours that competes with our reason and encourages us to abstain from rational principles: emotions.

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The second part of Matt's discourse on rational abstinence.  This time, our motivations are to avoid it because it causes us suffering.

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Matt introduces a phenomenon that he describes as rational abstinence, and elaborate on one reason why we engage in it: the impracticality of it in every day life.

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Matt offers an introduction to logical fallacies, the structure of an argument, and some elaboration on one logical fallacy: affirming the consequent.

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Matt shares his thoughts on the subject of free speech from a philosophical point of view while addressing some of the arguments made in support of censorship, and many that he believes sufficiently solidify free speech as not only necessary for democracy, but a universal and inalienable human right.

Arguments covered are criminalized forms of speech such as incitements to violence and uttering threats, the failure of specificity, the human censorious instinct, the impossible task of censor selection, the inherent conflict that arises from regulation, the concept of prior restraint, the right to listen, the intersection of rights, the failure to account for context, the fallacy of harm reduction, the negative impact of censorship on human mental well-being, the construction of illusions necessitated by censorship, differences in censorship between words and concepts and their implications, the blurring of the lines between thoughts and actions, complications that arise when the truth is hateful or if hatred contains truth, the endless accumulation of censorship without remedy, the unintended consequences of censorship, the role of agency, the implication of progress, the role of education, the elimination of empathy, the nature of offense, the disarming of the jester, the fallacy of the superhuman, the connection between rights, freedoms and morality, the incompatible nature of censorship and religious texts, the poor parsing of human value, arguments rallied in the modern era, the fallout of censorship in private industry, censorship being antithetical to pluralism, and the punitive nature of censorship.

With guest Derek Peterson.

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If you’ve ever believed that reason and logic were valuable, but never thought about exactly why that may be, Matt offers some thoughts.

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Derek returns as a guest in order to air some grievances with philosophy that many may share.  Matt offers some considerations and tries to parse between good and bad philosophy.

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