WEBVTT - Afraid to Debate? - Sunday Fireside Chat 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:03.640 Life Audio. 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:08.240 Hey there, this is Marissa strit I am the CEO 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:10.400 of Preger You, and you are about to listen to 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:14.440 a special edition of fireside Chat with Dennis Praguer. Those 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:16.760 of us here at preger You are continuing to do 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:19.279 the very important work that we've been doing with him 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.800 for over ten years. We are educating millions of young 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:26.560 people online, we have state partnerships to bring our content 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:29.480 into schools, and so much more. You can head over 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:31.920 to peger you dot com to see the progress that 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:34.640 we've been making. 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This is what number 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:23.120 one hundred and ninety. By the way, you know what 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:27.120 that proves that this is number one ninety. I want 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:30.280 to share with you something. It's the beauty of the 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:35.680 fireside chat is spontaneity. Well, one of the beauties. It's 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:41.800 the one hundred and ninetieth edition of the fireside Chat. 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:49.160 It proves something that every young person should be taught 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:56.600 very early. The power of habit, the power of repetition, 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:01.160 of doing something regularly. I guess that's just another way 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:06.200 of saying habit. You get so much accomplished, not by 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:11.600 doing a ton at one time, but by doing something regularly. 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.720 Good habits are really sort of the essence of a 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:22.160 good life. One hundred and ninety fireside chat is a 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:25.800 lot of fireside chats. But obviously I had one hundred 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:27.560 and ninety weeks to do it, but I did it 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:31.680 every week. It was a habit and it remains one anyway, 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:33.640 Just a thought for you. Great to be with you. 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:39.160 I always open, I think, always always open with a 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:44.120 topic and then I take your questions. A few weeks 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:50.160 ago I did a fireside chat in which I analyzed 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:55.480 a video of John Oliver, why does he consider a 0:02:55.560 --> 0:03:00.480 late night comic? Is that? Is that correct? With his 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:07.120 anti Israel diatribe on his show, it was a particularly 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:15.320 intellectually shallow and morally shallow appearance, in my opinion, and 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:20.840 I reacted to point by point with my own points 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.919 and said repeatedly, I would love to debate John Oliver 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:28.760 about the Middle East. After all, if you use your 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:34.440 large audience to say certain things you should morally, you 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:39.320 are bound to defend it. I am bound to defend 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:41.760 anything I say. And if someone challenges me to a 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.600 debate who has an equivalent audience of mine. I don't 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:46.600 mean some guys who are rite on the internet, Oh 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.440 Breaker won't debate me, and they have four hundred and 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:53.960 sixteen followers. But somebody who has their own show or 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:58.480 their own column, whatever, I would love to debate them 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.680 on anything that I have said. So I said, why 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.520 doesn't he debate me? And I'm very courteous to people 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:08.320 that I debate. As my radio show thirty five years 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:12.120 bears testimony to I said, I would go anywhere. I 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:17.159 would pay the expense. He could choose his own moderator, 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:21.159 his own city, anything, I'll go to his city, and 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.760 of course I got no responses. I predicted he won't 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.560 debate me. The reason that I raised the issue is 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:34.040 this is really important avenue to understanding the left. They 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:42.000 almost never debate, and they almost never debate because they 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:52.320 cannot live with intellectual opposition. Left wing thinking is feelings. 0:04:53.120 --> 0:05:01.960 Feelings cannot go up against facts and logic. It's all emotion. 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:07.000 It's all negative, often hatefilled emotion. But that's all it is. 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:10.839 It's all it's ever been. The left doesn't debate. The 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:14.560 Left smears if you differ with them, you're a racist. 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.559 You are what I called twenty years ago six HERB, 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:24.640 six hirb, sexist, intolerance, in a phobicchomophobic, islamophobic, races, bigoted. 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.240 The list is much longer today, but that was the 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.960 list twenty years ago. You are all these things, So 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:37.160 we don't debate you. We just label you. That has 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:40.880 been done ever since Lenin in the Russian Revolution. That 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:45.960 is all they have done. They don't debate, and you, 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.720 especially those of you who are younger, just need to 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.480 know this. The reason they don't want us at your 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:57.960 campuses is that they are afraid that if students hear 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.839 us for an hour and a half they will change 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:05.200 their minds, and they're right. That is a very legitimate 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:12.960 fear because left wing ideas that America is founded on racism, 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:19.039 that America is founded and fought the the American Revolution 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:25.440 to perpetuate slavery, that America is systemically racist, that blacks 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:29.200 and women and people of color are all persecuted in 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.960 the United States. This is all false. Of course there's 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.760 racism in the United States. It's like saying that you know, 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:40.200 there's there's something bad in every human being. Of course 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:45.520 there is. So what does does that mean that America 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:47.960 is racist? There's anti semitism in the United States, but 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.200 it's not an anti Symitic country. I say, this is 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:56.200 a Jew who's written a book on anti Semitism. They 0:06:56.240 --> 0:07:02.000 won't debate us because they can't debate us, and deep 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.359 down they know it. So what they do is they 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:08.920 talk people into believing, why would we would debate racists? Well, 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.560 I'll tell you one reason to prove that we're racist. 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:17.280 Would that be a great opportunity. See John Oliver doesn't 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:21.960 know anything about the Middle East nothing. I'm totally convinced 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:26.280 of it, and so he knows he would never debate 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:31.560 me on the Middle East. And by the way, he's 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:36.800 right when I said he won't debate me. I was 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:38.680 as sure of that as I was that the sun 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:44.800 would rise in the east the next day. But you 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:49.080 need to know this. When they have cancel culture, it's 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:53.200 because they're so afraid that people will become aware of 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:57.520 what we have to say. Whether it's about about ivermectin, 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:02.360 or whether it is about system racism or police brutality, 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:07.800 or every one of their subjects. They know deep down 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:11.840 that they don't have an intellectual or moral like to 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:15.640 stand on and then but that they do is they 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:19.200 convince themselves not that they're afraid to debate us, but 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.600 that there's no reason to. But of course there's reason too. 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:25.520 We're a certain that we're right as they are that 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:28.960 they're right. But we're totally open to debating. Why is that? 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.920 Why are we open to debating the left but the 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:35.719 left is not open to debating us because we know 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.760 that we'll win. Not win in the sense of a 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:42.400 TKO or a knockout or a split decision in a 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:46.120 boxing match, but in the sense that with people here 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:49.120 both sides, our side will make more sense and have 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:55.080 more facts Charles Mblou writes hate filled columns about America. 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:57.760 Every dime. He writes a column in The New York Times. 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.559 He's basically wit in run one colum five hundred times, 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.800 and it's about how evil America is, how whites are 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:10.440 just spectacularly racist. Would he debate Larry Elder? I would 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:14.120 pay ten thousand dollars to Charles Blow to debate Larry Elder, 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:18.920 a black conservative. He would never debate Larry Elder. It 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:22.839 would end his career. He would look like the fool 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:30.640 that he is, namely one left wing New York Times columnist, 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:34.200 would debate anybody? Would Thomas Freeman debate me? I would 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:41.319 pay him ten thousand dollars to debate. This is the 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:47.000 way it is. They just smear and cancel. Now you 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:51.720 know why that should tell you something. They are afraid 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:58.240 of us intellectually, they have every right to be ok. 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:07.200 Hel oh Caduke, Let's go to question number one. Yes, 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:08.680 that's the video question. 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.800 Well, my name is Roud Nadir, I'm eighteen years old 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.880 and I'm from Gilbert, Arizona. Dennis, I was just curious 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:19.000 to know what your thoughts are on third wave feminism, 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:23.760 and obviously we all believe that men and women are 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:26.920 equal when it comes to opportunity, but when it comes 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:30.839 to biology and work ethic. I was just curious to 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:32.440 know what your thoughts are on that area. 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:38.839 All right, thank you, Okay, so briefly I could do 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:43.400 we should do maybe one on feminism. But first of all, 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:45.839 I don't know how third wave feminism differs from second 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:50.840 wave or first wave. I'm not being cute. I really 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:54.079 don't know what is the intellectual difference, what is the 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:57.839 ideological difference. But anyway, whatever it is, maybe it's just 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:03.480 a chronological statement rather than a an ideological statement. So 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.240 I have a lot of problems with feminism. I don't 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.120 have a problem with the idea that men and women 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:14.439 are equal before God and before the law. That's such 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.240 a given to me that I don't even think that 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:24.000 time needs to be spent on it. The capacities of 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:27.679 both both sexes are essentially the same, you know when 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:30.000 I learned this. Interestingly, I didn't have a sister, so 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:34.800 I didn't grow up with girls in my life. But 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:39.640 I've always been a music lover, and some of you 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.720 know I conduct orchestras periodically. I'm very involved in music 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:48.480 and I'll never forget this was transformative. I used to 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.000 listen to the classical music station where I grew up 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:57.719 in New York City, and they once did something on 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:01.920 one of their programs where they had music critics listen 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:06.240 to recordings and then react to them. So they decided 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:09.400 to do an experiment. They had the same exact piano piece, 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:13.120 I don't know, it's Beethoven, whatever, Bach, and they had 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:17.760 let's say, five versions, and they would ask the panel, 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:23.880 and there these were professional music listener critics tell us 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:29.040 if this is a male or female pianist, and there 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:32.959 was absolutely zero I couldn't tell. They couldn't tell. And 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:36.400 these people listened for a living, and they could hear 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:40.679 the every nuance in the interpretation of a piano piece. 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:43.480 And I realized that was a very I was in 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:47.640 high school and I realized, Yeah, the capacities of the 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:51.920 two sexes are the same, not the capacity for every 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:56.480 single thing. Obviously, there are ways in which women and 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:00.599 men differ, and thank god they do. I'll give you, 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:04.000 I'll give you. Look, the obvious is physical, okay, But 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:08.360 putting physical aside, here's an interesting difference, I believe, and 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:13.000 I think most couples with a child would acknowledge this. 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:18.120 The woman is much more likely to awaken if the 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:23.000 baby whimpers. She marvels at the fact that he could 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:26.040 sleep through it, and he marvels at the fact that 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:32.120 it woke her up. Am I right, Rodrigo, Yeah, Rodrigo 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:38.559 is a is newly fathered and is probably living exactly 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:44.280 what I'm saying. I suspect when your baby you're you're 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.240 out to the world and your wife is out of there. 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:52.400 Like Cape Kennedy, the woman right exactly. I mean, there 0:13:52.440 --> 0:14:00.360 are differences, but capabilities that that is largely speaking, pretty 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.959 much a non issue. Okay, so everyone with a brain 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:08.520 has accepted not just a brain. Everyone who is a 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.320 clear thinker wants to be a clear thinker. There are 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:14.120 people with brains that don't think clearly. Knows that the 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:18.000 sexes are equal, but they're not the same, by the way, 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.480 thank god, they're not the same. It is one of 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:25.160 the delights of life that we differ in more than 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:32.040 just biology of the body. But feminism did teach that 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.960 men and women were the same, and that has played 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:42.200 havoc with both sexes because, on the one hand, they 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:45.760 taught that, so for example, they told young women for 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:49.840 the last fifty years that they should pursue career just 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:54.040 like men do, and that will bring them happiness. But 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:57.680 it has not brought a lot of women happiness. When 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.080 at fifty they call my radio show and they they 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.840 have great careers, but no husband and no children, they 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:05.880 don't call up to tell me how happy they are. 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:11.960 Otto is leaving the room. I hear by announce, Rodrigo, 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:15.600 you want to allow the star of the show to leave. 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.080 I don't know. It's hard to say why he's leaving, 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:25.120 but there were there. He's there. We had pre show 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:28.240 excitement for him. That that is correct. The prager, you 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:34.240 giant version of Otto was here and it spooked him. 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:41.600 So telling young women career will bring you happiness. 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:43.520 Was not. 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:50.920 Wise. It brings some people happiness, but not most, not 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:54.240 as much as a in terms of women, as a 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:59.080 husband and a family as difficult as husbands and families 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:03.880 are because human being are difficult. And another thing that 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.280 feminism told women when it told them that they were 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.440 the same was that their sexual drive is similar to 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.480 that of a man, and that just like men are 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:19.960 very happy to have non commit not committal be essentially 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.680 emotion free sex. So to women, and you can go 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:27.280 from partner to partner just like men do, and you 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:31.120 will love it. Well, most women don't love it just 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.720 the way it is. Some women do, there's no question, 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:38.320 but most women do not. It is not in keeping 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:42.920 generally with their nature. So feminism did a lot of damage, 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:47.320 and it's done damage in another way, the obsession with 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:50.960 the me too. Now I have zero Not only do 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:55.640 I not defend sexual harassment, let alone sexual assault, which 0:16:55.720 --> 0:17:01.200 is evil, but I actually haven't engaged in it, which 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:05.240 is pretty remarkable for a man of my age, going 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.000 back to a time when it was more common. But 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:13.600 I always thought it was wrong to say something inappropriate 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:18.560 to a woman, especially in a work atmosphere. I just 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:23.960 assumed that. But in any event, it's gone. It's gone 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:28.639 too far where men now, young women are telling me this. 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:34.440 Men are afraid to ask a woman out to as 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.120 we would say in my time. Maybe they still pick 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:42.320 up a woman at a Starbucks now, because I'll tell 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:45.280 you why. They are told, Oh, wait a minute, it 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:49.200 was an unwanted advance. Well, how does a man know 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:51.920 if an advance is wanted or not until he makes it? 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:56.120 He doesn't know if it's wanted or unwanted. Now, once 0:17:56.200 --> 0:18:01.280 it's unwanted, it's unwanted. But nevertheless, I'm not talking about physical. 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:02.960 Action. 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:10.399 I'm talking about just starting a pick up conversation. But men, 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:14.200 men are now afraid to do that. And it's not 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.720 because they're all whimps. There are a lot of wimpy men, 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.760 but that's not the reason. It's because they they have 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:25.520 reason to fear that they may well be charged I 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:31.640 don't mean necessarily legally, but morally in every other way 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:36.000 with oh, y know, it made want unwanted advances, and 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:38.960 indeed the woman may even mention it on Twitter, who knows, 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:44.399 So that's gone. That's gone too far. And finally, I 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:48.840 charge feminism with not really caring about women. I've said this, 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:53.159 or I've said this my whole life that feminism is 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:57.119 much more anti man than it is pro woman, and 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:00.080 I've never changed my mind on that one. But one 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:03.159 example of not being pro woman is that I know 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:05.760 of no feminist movement. I know of feminists, but I 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.639 know of no feminist movement that has come out in 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:12.560 defense of girls in high schools who have to compete 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:18.159 against biological males, who say they're female in sports. This 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:21.680 is not anti transgender. It's a typical example of the 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:26.359 left not debating but smearing. To say that biological women 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:30.680 should only compete against biological women is not anti trans 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:35.720 It is pro fairness, It is pro decency, and it 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:40.600 is pro woman. No feminist organization has come out in 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:45.959 defense of these women at the Tokyo Olympics, which are scheduled. 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:49.320 Whether they'll happen or not, I don't know, but New 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:53.800 Zealand is apparently going to be sending a trans a 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:59.679 trans women, that is, a biological male who identifies as 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:06.280 a woman in the weightlifting competition the most obvious arena 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:09.639 where men have a built in advantage, and so a 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:15.080 biological man will be lifting heavy weights against biological women 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:19.800 who cannot lift the same weights as males can. Is 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:24.159 that fair? Of course, it's not fair. I'm tempted to 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:26.440 say you have to go to college to think it 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:30.680 was fair, which is probably true, which tells you something 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:34.399 about what college does to the brain. Okay and Dresser 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:38.119 forty one, Boston, Massachusetts. Hig Dennis, one of my daughter's 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:41.720 fifth grade friends, came out as gay to her teachers 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:45.719 and some classmates. The teachers embraced her, encouraged the classmates 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:50.000 to make the girl feel comfortable in her skin. All 0:20:50.119 --> 0:20:53.199 seems well intended until you find out the parents are 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:55.760 being kept in the dark about it. What are your thoughts? 0:20:56.359 --> 0:21:02.439 Love the fireside chat? Thank you, thank you very much. Well, 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:04.160 there are a lot of issues here. First of all, 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:07.640 it is mind boggling that the parents are being kept 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:12.119 out of it, but it is not surprising. See the 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:16.040 undermining of parental authority is one of the major features 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:21.240 of all cults, and Leftism, unlike liberalism and unlike conservatism, 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:24.800 is a cult, and one of the first things they 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:28.840 do is break parental authority. They give it to the state. 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:32.639 This is a perfect example that the teacher did not 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:36.840 feel morally obligated to tell the parents. Your fifth grade 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:40.960 daughter is announcing to everyone that she's gay. But that 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:48.680 raises another issue as well, fifth graders knowing that they're gay. 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:52.159 I don't know, it's an interesting question. A lot of 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:54.080 gay friends, I'm going to ask them, did you know 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:59.400 in fifth grade? In fifth grade, do you know if 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:03.639 you're heatero sexual? In fifth grade? Do you think about 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:08.919 heterosexuality and homosexuality or is it that in our age 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:14.080 where these issues are discussed so early and the innocence 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:17.920 of children is compromised so early. This has now become 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:22.280 more common, which is what I think often the issue 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:28.720 is Jalen seventeen, Alan Park, Michigan. Hey Dennis, I recently 0:22:28.840 --> 0:22:31.720 just started watching your show after seeing ads of them 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:34.720 on YouTube. My question to you is why do you 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:39.280 think people decide to choose the left even though they 0:22:39.400 --> 0:22:44.240 divide our country and spread corruption? Which is all true? Also, 0:22:44.480 --> 0:22:50.560 Pineapple on pizza, Thank you. As to Pineapple on pizza, 0:22:50.680 --> 0:22:55.080 My wife likes it. I thought it was inedible and 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:57.520 then I had it and liked it. What am I 0:22:57.560 --> 0:23:03.120 going to say as to as regards the first part? 0:23:03.200 --> 0:23:05.560 What was that about? Oh? Yes, why do people choose 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:09.560 the left? The left is the default position, you know, 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:12.160 you know, like there's a default mode on your computer, 0:23:12.680 --> 0:23:16.280 there's a default mode in society. If you don't think 0:23:16.400 --> 0:23:19.480 issues through and just feel you will probably be on 0:23:19.560 --> 0:23:22.440 the left. That is the way it works. For example, 0:23:23.240 --> 0:23:26.400 let the government take care of people is a very 0:23:27.000 --> 0:23:33.360 very nice proposition. It sounds right correct. Let the government 0:23:33.480 --> 0:23:36.560 feed people, pay for their health care, pay for their 0:23:36.640 --> 0:23:40.280 college education, pay for everything in their lives, pay for 0:23:40.400 --> 0:23:46.760 their children's lunches and breakfast at school. This sounds without thinking, 0:23:47.240 --> 0:23:53.000 it sounds moral and beautiful and compassionate. So the default 0:23:53.119 --> 0:23:56.640 position for those who feel is going to always be left. 0:23:57.080 --> 0:24:00.399 There's another reason people prefer to be taken care of 0:24:00.880 --> 0:24:04.639 to liberty. In the choice between being free and taking 0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:08.920 care of yourself, or less free or unfree and having 0:24:09.000 --> 0:24:11.920 the state take care of you, most of humanity will 0:24:12.000 --> 0:24:14.200 choose to have the state take care of them and 0:24:14.320 --> 0:24:18.560 give up freedom. There's no question liberty is a value, 0:24:19.000 --> 0:24:23.800 not an instinct. That's why there are very few free countries. 0:24:24.400 --> 0:24:28.200 But there are very many countries and big governments. That's 0:24:28.400 --> 0:24:32.399 the default position of the human species. Take care of me, 0:24:32.960 --> 0:24:37.560 I'll give you my freedom. So leftism, for very many reasons, 0:24:38.240 --> 0:24:43.520 is the default. All right, let's see here, Wow, a 0:24:43.600 --> 0:24:46.320 twelve year old Rockville, Maryland micah. How can you defeat 0:24:46.320 --> 0:24:48.720 the left in an argument? If conservative arguments are based 0:24:48.760 --> 0:24:52.119 on reasoning and logic, while left wing arguments are based 0:24:52.160 --> 0:24:55.239 on emotion and feelings, you can defeat them. But they 0:24:55.280 --> 0:24:58.719 won't debate. That was ironically, that was my opening statement. 0:25:00.160 --> 0:25:04.560 It's not hard at all. But if they don't debate, 0:25:04.800 --> 0:25:07.479 that's very hard to defeat anybody in the debate if 0:25:07.520 --> 0:25:12.439 they don't debate. Zai in twenty six Pulaski, Tennessee hel 0:25:12.440 --> 0:25:14.280 almost the prager. In a couple of your more recent 0:25:14.359 --> 0:25:17.399 fireside chats, you have mentioned that you do not agree 0:25:17.440 --> 0:25:20.800 with the idea of unconditional love. Correct In support of 0:25:20.840 --> 0:25:23.880 your view, you reference the condition between God and man 0:25:24.080 --> 0:25:26.920 to accept his son in order to retain eternal life. 0:25:27.359 --> 0:25:31.240 I don't recall using that example. I might have, but 0:25:31.440 --> 0:25:34.960 I'm not Christian. I'm Jewish in belief. I'm pro Christian 0:25:36.240 --> 0:25:40.000 very much so, as you probably know. But I don't know. 0:25:40.160 --> 0:25:44.080 I don't remember using that particular example. I've always heard 0:25:44.119 --> 0:25:47.760 God loves the sinner and not the sin. Yeah, okay, 0:25:49.119 --> 0:25:53.159 so God's love. Does God love require our acceptance of 0:25:53.280 --> 0:25:56.159 his son? Or does God love us no matter what 0:25:56.440 --> 0:25:58.359 is and is willing to let us make ourver say? So, 0:25:58.520 --> 0:26:01.680 maybe I did use that, maybe in speaking about Christians, 0:26:01.880 --> 0:26:05.320 because I don't even think Christians should believe in unconditional love. 0:26:05.440 --> 0:26:07.800 I don't know what the biblical basis of it is. 0:26:08.359 --> 0:26:10.240 I don't know what the logical basis of it is. 0:26:10.280 --> 0:26:11.840 I don't know what the moral basis of it is 0:26:12.440 --> 0:26:18.240 if love is given unconditionally, then love has been removed 0:26:18.400 --> 0:26:23.520 from moral considerations. It is becoming the only a moral 0:26:23.960 --> 0:26:28.440 act in life. That's what you're saying. There's no moral 0:26:28.560 --> 0:26:32.919 quality to love, no matter how despicable, cruel, vile you are. 0:26:33.160 --> 0:26:35.440 I love you just as much as I love the kind. 0:26:36.080 --> 0:26:40.640 That means love has no moral quality to it. It's 0:26:40.720 --> 0:26:45.560 bizarre to me, just bizarre. You really think it's an 0:26:45.640 --> 0:26:51.800 ideal to love torturers as much as Mother Teresa. I 0:26:51.880 --> 0:26:54.680 don't get it, and I mean it. I don't get it. 0:26:54.840 --> 0:27:00.359 It's not a matter of hyperbole or rhetorical device. I 0:27:00.680 --> 0:27:04.679 don't get it. It is better to love the kind. 0:27:05.600 --> 0:27:10.280 It's a moral ideal to love the kind. That's my belief. 0:27:11.960 --> 0:27:15.040 What to me, the idea that God is in heaven, 0:27:15.680 --> 0:27:18.159 and it's sort of like an air conditioner. Air Conditioners 0:27:18.200 --> 0:27:21.200 are a moral right. They condition the room if a 0:27:21.280 --> 0:27:23.639 hitler walks in, and they condition the room if the 0:27:23.720 --> 0:27:27.800 Mother Teresa walks in. Correct, right, So that is how 0:27:27.960 --> 0:27:31.479 people who speak of God's unconditional love to me are 0:27:31.560 --> 0:27:36.280 speaking about God. He just blows his love onto everybody equally. 0:27:36.800 --> 0:27:40.840 It is irrelevant how people treat other people. I don't 0:27:40.840 --> 0:27:43.119 know where that's from. By the way, if you check it, 0:27:43.200 --> 0:27:49.480 it's very interesting. Google has a fascinating graph on the 0:27:49.720 --> 0:27:55.200 use of terms in books and magazines and newspapers in 0:27:55.320 --> 0:27:57.440 the course of the last one hundred years, from the 0:27:57.480 --> 0:28:02.679 beginning of the twentieth century. Years and I looked up 0:28:02.800 --> 0:28:09.639 unconditional love, and the graph goes like this, so virtually nothing, 0:28:09.960 --> 0:28:13.440 nineteen hundred, virtually nothing, then a little climb, then a 0:28:13.520 --> 0:28:17.400 little climb, and after the nineteen fifties it's like a mountain. 0:28:18.720 --> 0:28:22.159 The use of the term unconditional love skyrockets after the 0:28:22.240 --> 0:28:28.000