It's not that you just want to kill yourself, it's that you have a problem. Your life is horrifying because you're isolated. But in order to break that isolation, it brings up death threats in your mind. And so I think that's a lot of the torture that people are going through. And again, I don't want to over caveat this, but this is just my opinion.
I've certainly had some conversations along these lines and that would be my first port of call if I was talking to someone about this just sort of in my personal life. But that would be my first approach, if that makes sense. Yes, Sir. So I would like to give Mr. Molyneux a break and just share some thoughts on Kamala Harris Finally extended the web page that she has and now actually lists the issues that she would like to talk about.
Now, I'm not going to get into the specifics, but here are the major takeaways to save the audience some time. Voluntary contracts are exploitative, but the state imposing unilateral obligations on millions of people by legal Fiat is a totally valid social contract force. Cotton picking is inherently immoral, but forced military conscription for Vladimir Zelensky is totally good. We want to empower the working class, but school choice should
be illegal. You might owe reparations for something you never engaged in, but violent criminals today are really just victims of past injustice. Riots are the voice of the unheard, but January 6th was the worst thing since the 30 years War. So when you are faced with all of these contradictions, the best thing that I think people could do is check out two websites. One is Libertarian institute.org, 2 is free domain.com.
I want to give 10 lessons I have learned from freedomain.com along with these books on truth, the tyranny of illusion, everyday anarchy, and practical anarchy. So lesson #1 the importance of free association, disassociation, and having your own standards. This applies to friends, family, commercial interactions, and politics. Free domain really gave me the confidence to not have double standards, whether it's for my neighbor or for someone like Lindsey Graham #2 taking the
implications of arguments. I had this pink haired Bolshevik the other day tell me you shouldn't tell people what to do and I had to just pause and laugh asking her did you just tell me not to do something in the form of telling me to tell other people not what to do and what not to do? Having this confidence really allowed me to discuss political issues without a heightened sense of insecurity #3 start
small with what you can control. One of my favorite Molyneux or ants ever was he goes if you can't lift a cup of coffee, please don't pretend to tell me that you can lift a building. So starting with something small that which is in your control is really important. The other really good one he had was it before you try and change the world and or change the political system and turn it against its own interests, could you take a Jane Austen book club and turn that book club against
Jane Austen? Start small, start local. The next one use precise language. Nikki Haley said the other day, I don't agree with the president on everything. Well, of course no one agrees with everyone on everything. This was something Mr. Molyneux would constantly point out to us. And once you see the imprecise language that morons use to arouse the passions of the feeble minded and keep them asleep, now it's just everywhere. Next one holding people accountable to their face.
There was a guy, well remotely but in a conversation the gentleman was asked by Mr. Molyneux, So what at this point what would it take for you to break up with your girlfriend? He goes, well, if if she ever really violated my trust to which step on said, well, she cheated on you and gave you an STD, so are you going to break up with her or just move the goal post? And it was like, oh, I never thought of someone actually, you know, holding someone
accountable like that. This is something I'd only say a day later to someone else in the confidence of my own home. That is really important. Next, the importance of analogies, isolating variables, allowing people to extract a principle under circumstances which they don't have emotional connections to. This is why I use the example of the Catholic Church doing everything the state does in my
book, domestic imperialism. Very important next to the importance of social ostracism and public declarations of disapproval. It was just amazing hearing adults that I know say things like, well, you can't say X. When you say you can't do you mean the words don't actually exit your mouth? And they're like, well, you'll get a lot of eye rolls and and people might raise their voice. And so that's what I mean by can't.
So they put this on the same level as like, you can't flap your arms and fly and you can't address issues like, Hey, you shouldn't hit your kids to one of your friends who is an abusive parent. Next, the against me argument. Raising the emotional opportunity cost of holding an immoral belief decreases the person's confidence in it. Thus they're less likely to passionately spread it, decreasing its power of social proof. This against me argument is very important.
It gets people out of the realm of hypothetically. Theoretically, I think things like taxation and conscription are OK. Asking people, you want me to be enslaved? Forced labor to go to Ukraine to keep Zelensky on the throne. That's what you think should happen, and I should be caged for not doing this. If I like Yanukovych more, that's what should happen to me. You're advocating that very powerful stuff. Next, selective anger as a litmus test.
Growing up, I thought there were two types of people, people who got angry and people who didn't. Free domain.com really taught me that there was actually a standard that you should have for things that should make you angry and things that you should first talk through or just constantly remain common. So the ability to properly discriminate a good time for when anger should be used because if you use it all the time, it's like inflation. If you print a ton of it, then
it's worthless. If you're always angry, then you never know what's really important. Finally, this. I had to choose one of my favorite quotes. This one might be the best. Death is coming either way. Living small ain't going to save you from death. It just makes every day a little more like dying. That is a number of lessons I've learned as a student of Mr. Molyneux for these years. Been waiting maybe six years or so to tell him that.