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Question 1: [2:58] – “My wife and I have been trying for 5 years and have had 4 surgeries, 4 miscarriages and one failed IVF attempt ($50,000 total expense). I'm listening to one of your call-in-shows right now and Stef is having a rant about Westerners having babies. I want a person to raise. I also badly want my wife to be a mother. Adoption is anywhere between $35,000-50,000. I'm at a fork in the road right now ('m 40 years old and she is 37). Do we try to go for adoption?” Question 2: [1:01:08] – “Whenever the idea of marriage or longer-term relationships is discussed among my circles, the saying ‘people change over time’ continually crosses my mind and makes me wonder how people can commit to someone they don't really know. Sure they may know the person today, who they are, what their values are, what they want out of life, goals, ambitions, values, family goals, etc. etc. but acknowledging the idea that people change over time, I'm left kind of puzzled at the prospect of commitment to who that person will be tomorrow, the day after, the year after or ten years down the line. How can you commit to someone 10 years down the line, when not only do you not know who they're going to be by that time, but you don't know who you yourself are going to be?” Question 3: [1:24:08] - “In studying the drug epidemic, I've realized that the black market for drugs for exhibits the same market characteristics of any other commodity market. It's my view that if illicit drugs become prohibitively expensive, their use (i.e. demand) will fall precipitously. To make this case we needn't think it terms of hypotheticals, just look at the way the DEA stopped the quaalude crisis. Our country had a real problem with quaaludes when the drug cost 25 cents a hit in the 70's and early 80's. By investigating and shutting down the supply centers, the price of quaaludes rose to over $250/pill and the number of quaalude addicts (and deaths and injuries) fell to almost zero. We should take a similar approach to the drugs that currently plague our society.” Question 4: [2:37:15] – “I'm a 20-year-old man. When I was but a few days old I was circumcised, too much skin was removed, and the cuts were too deep. As a result I am bound as a man today who can't have sex with a woman or achieve orgasm (severe neurological damage). I feel embarrassed, ashamed, inadequate, violated and angry beyond comprehension. The 14th amendment’s equal protection under the law clause (yes the one the courts used to legalize gay marriage) says I, or any other male should have been protected from genital cutting since females are LEGALLY protected from it. I'd like to bring awareness to what an absolutely pernicious and repulsive practice it is, and how it's personally made me want to end my life. I'd like to finally talk about it anonymously, to try and leave this horrible anger behind.” Your support is essential to Freedomain Radio, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate Listen to the Podcast
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Question 1: [1:54] – “I am a 32-year old woman from Sweden who just started medical studies after completing a PhD in medical sciences. Life is good - however, I know my biological clock is ticking, and I really want kids, but I don't have a partner. Where are the smart, manly guys interested in a smart, family-minder partner? I used not to worry too much thinking I can always be a single mum if by say 35 I'm still single. It would be tough, but I know I could do it. However, after I started listening to FDR, I feel less comfortable about that option. Of course, I want the best for my potential future baby! I think I would be a great mother, but fatherhood is one thing I can't provide. I would love to hear your thoughts and maybe get some advice.” Question 2: [1:12:35] – “In less than 3 decades after the fall of the Soviet Union collectivist ideologies have infiltrated our media, universities, businesses, schools, and government agencies. Growing groups of young people clamor for openly Socialist politicians like Bernie Sanders and clearly leftist policies like universal health care and gun control. So, why resist? Why don't we turn and embrace Communism as a viable way to structure our society if that's what so many people want?” Question 3: [2:00:14] – “I recently listened to a podcast on anti-natalism. And needless to say it left me churning for the last few days. The pro-anti-natalist made the point that due to the vast amount of suffering in the world verses the sparse amount of pleasure/good that if we were to look at things from the perspective of the as yet to exist child that the said child would obviously choose nonexistence. I can almost understand this proposition but find myself in the end disagreeing with it. Now this brings up a few conundrums for me. Firstly in order to have any opinion/perspective a thing would have to exist in some form, so then wouldn't a person be causing undo suffering by consciously denying that hypothetical child the opportunity to experience whether it is full of pain or not. It seems to me that this is almost a case of the grass is always greener on the other side wherein from a materialist perspective (I'm not exactly a certifiable materialist) there is no such thing as nothingness outside of the human mind. Even in quantum mechanics a seemingly empty space has the potential to spontaneously produce little bits and pieces. So how in the real world would we have any concept on whether nothingness would be better than even the most painful experiences?” Question 4: [2:23:20] – “How do you help a world (or someone) that believes it doesn't need your help? How do you save someone heading for the cliffs singing "I believe I can fly!"? I used to believe in the principle of non-involvement and only giving advices when the person/ the world asks for it. What if the price of the mistake about too be made is too great? A personal version of these questions have arisen in my personal life; my brother is planning to get married and I believe it to be a common case of the son repeating the mistake of the father.” Your support is essential to Freedomain Radio, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate Listen to the Podcast
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Question 1: [1:54] – “I’ve heard Stefan say numerous times that he doesn’t spank as a form of discipline, whereas I find spanking to be the disciplinary measure of last resort. As a father I am always willing to use nonphysical consequences, redirection, reasoning, and the like before any physical consequences, but as these periodically fail to correct a maladaptive behavior I have found spanking sufficient to do this. My position is that spanking is actually an appropriate form of disciple (again as a last resort) primarily because it teaches a truth about life, namely, that sometimes there are physically painful consequences to our actions. These, if done correctively and not punitively, may get our attention and cause us to change our behavior. I’d love to talk about this with Stefan and get his perspective on the issue.” Question 2: [56:45] - “The left uses mass shooting survivors as ‘extra credible’ figures to argue their point. I think this is unethical. As a shooting survivor myself, I try not to do the same. Should I stick to those guns, or should I use my “victim” status to trump the argument?” Question 3: [1:30:30] - “I am the oldest child and only son in my family. My two sisters and I grew up in a single-mother household, and I have seen many of the common negative effects of that environment manifest themselves. I had my "red pill" moment a few years ago and have been obsessively striving towards self-improvement ever since. Given what I now know about the pitfalls of single-motherhood and the importance of positive male role models, I find myself feeling very guilty about not doing much to fill that role for my younger sisters growing up. Of course I began trying to correct that as soon as possible, but I also fear that I have missed the most crucial time period in their lives where I could have made a major impact. Can the older brother effectively fulfill the role left unfilled by the father to any meaningful extent, even if he only becomes aware of the responsibilities of that role after the sisters have entered their teenage years?” Question 4: [2:24:00] – “After watching your videos on free will and AI I find myself questioning your belief that it would be impossible for machines to one day emulate human awareness and free will. If we hold Darwinian evolution to be true, it points to humans evolving from organisms that did not have free will. But merely an instinct to adapt survive and reproduce. Question: Considering the fact that we evolved from apes with no free will, do you consider it impossible that software designed to evolve and learn via neural network machine learning and reproductive evolution could eventually obtain a concision awareness of itself and gain free will given enough time?” Your support is essential to Freedomain Radio, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate Listen to the Podcast
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Question 1: [1:40] - “Is Freudian psychoanalysis still relevant in 2018, and if so, what (if anything) can it tell us about the relationships between men, women, and children, so as to help guide civilization toward a meaningful and productive future?” Question 2: [1:12:55] - “I am a libertarian. For the past two years I have really noticed a huge shift to leftism, pc, and post modernism inside the “libertarian movement”. These left-libertarians have infected state and national parties. These same people are the ones who will smear anyone who thinks Western Civilization and American Tradition is something to be proud of and protected. Nasty people. Even when empirical evidence is provided, they completely cuck out and proceed with terrible analogies, sophistry, and insults. For example, a lot of times when asked about the European migrant crisis they say, ‘I am not living there, so I am not qualified to give an opinion’. They say that but yet, don’t live in Venezuela and know it’s a basket-case. Is that because they have deep rooted relationships with leftists that prevents them from thinking clearly? I have several examples I would like to discuss but my ultimate question is, what do we do with the libertarians? It seems it’s a 60/40 split of left libertarians vs. Hoppean/Rothbard right libertarians. Is it time to abandon the name libertarian or do we fight? I am leaning towards abandoning, but what are your thoughts?” Question 3: [2:02:06] - “I'm training and practicing in the male dominated field of general surgery. I have come under increased scrutiny for not being more of an alpha female. Ultimately, this has led to my seeming weak to my superiors. I'm struggling with accepting and moving on from the cycle I have helped create: I act womanly, therefore I'm treated like a weak-link, therefore I somewhat feel that way, leading to being less confident, then treated with less respect, and the cycle continues. This in the context that surgery as a field and including my superiors, aren't very aware of how to handle the subtle differences between men and women surgeons. Additionally, this has be partially responsible for the program asking/telling me to repeat the 3rd of 5th year of training. My question is, how do I personally and professionally overcome this? Also, as a 31-year-old married childless woman, do I balance this with the small part of me that entertains the idea of quitting and growing our family.“ Question 4: [3:29:26] - “How do I peacefully prepare my child for a violent world? - Or - Am I adequately preparing my children for the world by being a peaceful parent? Being a peaceful parent has given me children who are bright, brilliant and kind...but terrified of authority and violence. My little boy is crippled by anxiety. He cries every day before school. The other children seem so unaffected. Living in Appalachia, the general consensus is that I am not doing my part to toughen him up. Do I really have to? We have been to doctors, he is in counseling, but I am afraid...what if the problem is me? (I even learned how to shoot a gun so he feels safer when his dad is not here. I never thought I would ever fire a gun.) I was so glad to find out that Stefan is a peaceful parenting advocate. So many of the advocates make it look like hippy dippy nonsense. I would truly appreciate his guidance. This is not about me, this is about my babies.” Your support is essential to Freedomain Radio, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate Listen to the Podcast