I appreciate your insights on art, especially the movie reviews you do with Izzy. Have you ever looked into anime? It's interesting to see media from a different culture and there are some interesting philosophical works. I think you might appreciate "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood" for instance. It's both popular and critiques the state.

Regarding the point on survival based morality. Can we say that in the case where someone has to violate property rights for their survival, it will most likely be because either they lack some essential mental faculty to allow them to provide for themselves and can therefore be seen as disabled to some degree and are therefore not accountable for their actions. Or they have good mental faculties but the environment has left them in a situation where they are left with no choice but to violate property rights.

Since they have no other choice, they can't be considered to be exercising their free will and can therefore not be held accountable, anymore than the Uruguayan rugby team can be labelled as cannibals for eating human meat when stranded in the Andes. Death isn't a choice if it is forced upon you.

Since morality can only be applied to those that can conceive of it and are acting with free will, survival based behaviours that violate property rights can never be moral if they only occur in instances where free will isn't present. (At least in 99% of cases we can conceive of.)

In the cases where free will is present, then survival based behaviours that violate property rights can be labelled as immoral.

Therefore survival based behaviours that violate property rights can either be immoral or morally invalid but never moral.

Is this correct?

Thank you

Hi Stef! Do you have any advice on overcoming social anxiety when talking about touchy subjects (such as everything discussed on this show). I am in university right now (accounting) and find everyone in my class implicitly accepts Marxism and socialist economic theory. They all take climate change narratives at face value, as well as the racial, gender, and sex issues. It is incredibly apparent how prevalent this political correctness is with people my own age. I sometimes try to counter these points in classes when the opportunity arises, but I find that I get quite nervous sometimes and lose the ability to speak as well as I normally do. Sometimes my face will get red, i will sweat a bit and become quite anxious, thus losing my train of thought. This was the same experience I had when covid was the thing, and I wasn't wearing a mask or following the social distancing rules and people would get mad at me. I know I am right in my views but I still get this sense of unease which I don't have with people who I know well (even if they don't agree with me). Any thoughts on this?

Most nurses I interact with professionally (I am also a nurse) or as a patient are very overweight. Most have terrible habits and do not lead healthy personal lives. In addition to that, a lot are single moms, divorced, “can’t find a good man”, etc. I think it is a terrible way to care for others and try to encourage patients to be healthy. What are your thoughts on the nursing profession?

Whenever I hear of ‘The Oracle at Delphi’ it jars with me. Was it a real person or a fairy tale do you think?

what’s you’re take on the “Good Samaritan”

You've spoken about journaling your thoughts before and the therapeutic benefit of journaling.

How would you compare the therapeutic benefit of journaling versus writing a novel?

Is the activity of distilling one's own observations and thoughts into characters, along with the interplay of those characters, even more therapeutic than journaling? How are they similar and how are they different?

You mentioned once in passing that humor is a somewhat childish, and I’ve found that to be true but just can’t put my finger on it. I’ve noticed a few people who I think have some psychopathic tendencies, if you will, who are always looking for a guffaw or something to laugh or mock. Is it all about putting someone else down in an attempt to feel better about themselves? Do you have any more light to shed on this subject? Thank you.

You mentioned once in passing that humor is a somewhat childish, and I’ve found that to be true but just can’t put my finger on it. I’ve noticed a few people who I think have some psychopathic tendencies, if you will, who are always looking for a guffaw or something to laugh or mock. Is it all about putting someone else down in an attempt to feel better about themselves? Do you have any more light to shed on this subject? Thank you.

Hey Stef, in your adult life, have you ever been involved in a physical confrontation that you were unable to simply walk away from? If so, how did you deal with it and was there anything in retrospect you could have done to avoid it before it began?

I spoke to someone who recently defined capitalism as “dog eat dog”

I am aware that there is a competitive nature to capitalism but as you mentioned in your recent post about the age of reason, that capitalism requires empathy.

I don’t see “dog eat dog” as sounding empathetic and sounds like the scarcity mindset.
I responded with a slogan that I felt was a better definition of capitalism:
“I can serve you better than the competition“

This person thinks that this dog eat dog mindset is fine in the business world & can be mixed with a Christian “worldview” but can’t be applied to relationships.
This same person seems to have difficulty finding a woman who will be honest and is constantly deceived by “trad” woman who are too immersed in modern culture (loud bars, drinking, inappropriate clothing)

Hey Stef! I was wondering what your position is with respect to child parent relations. When Izzy was younger, did you ever say no to her (even if she didn't accept that as a valid answer)? Did you view your relationship with her as one where you had inherent authority over her (but chose to use it as little as possible) or did you view her as an equal to you in every way (except for her lack of competency stemming from having little to no experience in certain things)?

what would you say to someone who, after you told them about the concept of peaceful parenting, replied with something like "well I was hit as a kid and I turned out just fine. I deserved to be hit and I learned from it to become a better person."

I moved from one province to another and immediately took a 15 week course to better my computer skills, now it’s time to look for work but I am having difficulty in keeping positive and optimistic. It’s stressful to move and start over, all the streets and people are new, and although I have my family my anxiety is playing a number on me. Any tips on how to stabilize and let go of my anxiety. Thank you