It's only one side of the political divide that wants to silence free speech because they aren't confident that their stance is defensible whereas the other side of the political divide know their side is defensible so they love free speech and all the argument that goes along with it.
People need to understand that argument doesn't mean you speak to win. When you argue, it's because you want to find the truth. When you go into an argument thinking you already know the truth, you've defeated the purpose. People are so uncomfortable with accepting the fact that they could be wrong. Instead of admitting it, they doubledown
Modern societies encourage the opposite actually. Ie if you change your mind in an argument, you are a weak and a pushover. Everyone seems to love a person who speaks without compromise, without ifs and buts.
Problem with arguments and debates was and always will be that it is judged by group of people who most likely arent well educated and masses like shows they will give w to whoever was more charismatic and cunning so ii doesnt make any sense in reality it wont make any good if not worse there is no truth to be found in debates
@@dkurt2725 yeah I majored in philosophy in college. Debates are pointless. People only go into them to affirm they're views and get cheers for it. Nobody understands that an argument is supposed to be about getting to what is real, not what you personally believe
I've just discovered Pinker and I'm in awe. Such a wise, eloquent and charismatic personality. He reminds of my philosophy teacher, one of those people who love their craft so much that it makes you love it too and eager to learn.
@@rebelraccoon9018 Pinker is one of the most important voices of our time. And his interviews could be published verbatim. Another notable interview of his is with Jonathan Rauch, to whom Steven is grateful for authoring the book The Constitution of Knowledge. Definitely worth a check.
Ive really liked his work for years... but hes been disappointingly meek on many important issues surrounding campus censorship and media groupthink.. TDS got to him...
If you are a Harvard prof. who visits Epstein’s island (see Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s memoirs), then you may also convince yourself that there has been moral progress in the world.
BS Pinker said he is not the “Stephen” in Giuffre's manuscript and wrote “This was not me. I've never set foot on Epstein's island nor any of his other properties. I spell my name 'Steven,' and there are Harvard professors named 'Stephen' who do have a connection with Epstein
0:00: 🌍 The world is facing numerous challenges including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, geopolitical conflicts, economic issues, and social divisions. 3:40: 🌍 The news tends to focus on negative events, but it's important to put them in statistical context and consider the positive trends happening in the world. 6:51: 🗣 The speaker discusses the decline of coal rates and the importance of subscribing to sites that report positive developments for mental health and countering complacency. Recap by Tammy AI
We don't have increased access to electricity here in California. Quite the opposite as they close down power plants, and it the scarcity shows in the price which is multiples higher than other states. Businesses are leaving citing, among other things, the high cost of electricity.
@@angelozachos8777 Again you expose your ignorance because who decides what's evil, or good and in your case (true evil)? The simple fact of the matter is morality is used by those most judgemental and yet EVERYONE is guilty of something its just a matter of degrees. You may judge me as evil, but what or who's to say that you aren't the evil one. For every rule we find disgusting and abhorrent there's also people who think the same of us in return. For example Hitler was abhorrent as a human being could be however England has also perputated just as many worldly evils. This is a conversation somewhat beyond the bandwidth of your worldly experience but feel free to keep engaging if you wish. 🤔🤔
Less talk....More work. For one thousand seven hundred seventy seven years America did great without a constitution. What in hell is a constitution doing to America, your feeling it today. 😂😅😂
Obviously the easy bit is your right to say what you want, but the more counterintuitive aspect is to protect your enemy’s right to say the most abhorrent things
Counter argument. This perspective is like a group of rowdy men who spend 4 carefree weeks in a holiday home. Completely trashe the place and doesn't tidy up after themselves; food waste, beer bottles etc. Then happily hand the keys over to the next visitors, a young family with two young kids who have worked hard to be able to aford 5 days in the holiday home. Those parents then have to spend the next few days working around the clock to tidy the house to how it should be whilst also looking after and picking up after the 2 kids as they go. Leaving 1 day to recover before returning home to work a 9-5. 😐
Fear is the imagination killer. It is the default or standard approach to the anxiety of having a mortal life. Conjecture about the future - it's like everything else, the conclusion you come to, depends on the state of your own mind.
It’s also the weakening of moral fortitude, children are taught, indoctrinated and praised for failure. It’s is having a dangerously bad effect on our society and is not getting better.
Free speech shouldn’t be confused Hate speech and insight to violence. A number of countries has clear rules in their constitution distinguishing these. Countries that don’t have this uses Free speech as a leverage against those that has. This is where the red line must be drawn.
I understand having an incitement line. I would agree with that. If you're calling for violence on people regardless of the reason why it should be punishable. As long as saying you dislike someone or their ideas or mocking them isn't the standard for "violence" Hate speech laws though... Absolutely NOT. They are subjective and vague by nature. There are a few "free" nations (Canada, UK off the top of my head) with hate speech laws that have jailed/fined people for "offensive" jokes. Personally, I find that a VERY slippery slope because whether or not something is "offensive" is up to whoever is hearing it at the time. I would find the whole concept laughable if it didn't have potentially dire consequences.
I suppose it depends on what you mean by both "free speech" and the "scientific method." Francis Bacon came onto the scene well before England's Bill of Rights.
@@peanutnutter1 "Secularism was very important"? Yeah, maybe to anyone who dared offend the gods or was even accused of implying that they didn't exist - like Socrates who was executed for "corrupting the youths of Athens/" I guess that's the kind of "free speech" you really support. You're either ignorant of the whole Greco-Roman pantheon or just don't have a clue about the definition of "secular."
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Professor Pinker must be eternally grateful for the great thumbnail picture of him..
Still better looking than all the people botoxed and surgically altered to high heavens. At least he looks like a human being and not artificial.
@@rebelraccoon9018 His a jenious!
It makes him look like Marshall Applewhite😢
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The comparison of their expressions, is pretty valid.
It's only one side of the political divide that wants to silence free speech because they aren't confident that their stance is defensible whereas the other side of the political divide know their side is defensible so they love free speech and all the argument that goes along with it.
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People need to understand that argument doesn't mean you speak to win. When you argue, it's because you want to find the truth. When you go into an argument thinking you already know the truth, you've defeated the purpose. People are so uncomfortable with accepting the fact that they could be wrong. Instead of admitting it, they doubledown
You do it too, guaranteed. We all do. The problem is when large groups of people, in identity groups, start to do it to someone on mass.
Modern societies encourage the opposite actually. Ie if you change your mind in an argument, you are a weak and a pushover. Everyone seems to love a person who speaks without compromise, without ifs and buts.
Problem with arguments and debates was and always will be that it is judged by group of people who most likely arent well educated and masses like shows they will give w to whoever was more charismatic and cunning so ii doesnt make any sense in reality it wont make any good if not worse there is no truth to be found in debates
@@dkurt2725 yeah I majored in philosophy in college. Debates are pointless. People only go into them to affirm they're views and get cheers for it. Nobody understands that an argument is supposed to be about getting to what is real, not what you personally believe
That's called bigotry. "I'm right and people who judge me are wrong" kind of mindset. The problem is the bigger group of bigots has power to control.
Look up Steven Pinker - Free Speech, Reason and Knowledge. It's 14mins and goes into vital info about the topic. He's a gem in our time
Thanks, that was a good watch
@@tech1238 you’re welcome
I've just discovered Pinker and I'm in awe. Such a wise, eloquent and charismatic personality. He reminds of my philosophy teacher, one of those people who love their craft so much that it makes you love it too and eager to learn.
@@rebelraccoon9018 Pinker is one of the most important voices of our time. And his interviews could be published verbatim. Another notable interview of his is with Jonathan Rauch, to whom Steven is grateful for authoring the book The Constitution of Knowledge. Definitely worth a check.
Ive really liked his work for years... but hes been disappointingly meek on many important issues surrounding campus censorship and media groupthink.. TDS got to him...
Of course we are better off compared to 100 years ago.
Our current problem is tech is expanding faster than we can adjust.
If you are a Harvard prof. who visits Epstein’s island (see Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s memoirs), then you may also convince yourself that there has been moral progress in the world.
BS Pinker said he is not the “Stephen” in Giuffre's manuscript and wrote “This was not me. I've never set foot on Epstein's island nor any of his other properties. I spell my name 'Steven,' and there are Harvard professors named 'Stephen' who do have a connection with Epstein
0:00: 🌍 The world is facing numerous challenges including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, geopolitical conflicts, economic issues, and social divisions.
3:40: 🌍 The news tends to focus on negative events, but it's important to put them in statistical context and consider the positive trends happening in the world.
6:51: 🗣 The speaker discusses the decline of coal rates and the importance of subscribing to sites that report positive developments for mental health and countering complacency.
Recap by Tammy AI
Sometimes I yell at Screen Piers, others I bob-my-head-in unison... Today I feel the unison with a positive psychologist... Thanx Piers Show!!!
"Bob your head"? So you're saying you're easily manipulated depending on the subject matter.
PS watch out for sharp scissors... Son of Sam...@@Paulstrickland01
the most accurate/straight forward guests get least views a little disturbing
We don't have increased access to electricity here in California. Quite the opposite as they close down power plants, and it the scarcity shows in the price which is multiples higher than other states. Businesses are leaving citing, among other things, the high cost of electricity.
Emmett Brown MD !!! Back to the Future
Nice thumbnail lol
It’s good vs evil. Evil is out of control
Exactly!!!
Oh grow up, good and evil are fairy-tales we tell ourselves to divide the world.
@@Paulstrickland01
You haven’t read enough history , if you think true EVIL does not exist ✌️
@@angelozachos8777 Again you expose your ignorance because who decides what's evil, or good and in your case (true evil)? The simple fact of the matter is morality is used by those most judgemental and yet EVERYONE is guilty of something its just a matter of degrees.
You may judge me as evil, but what or who's to say that you aren't the evil one. For every rule we find disgusting and abhorrent there's also people who think the same of us in return. For example Hitler was abhorrent as a human being could be however England has also perputated just as many worldly evils.
This is a conversation somewhat beyond the bandwidth of your worldly experience but feel free to keep engaging if you wish. 🤔🤔
Well….this aged like a banana
Not going to lie, when I clicked on this video I thought it was about Albert Einstein...
This is what Einstein looked like but you worship him, lol
only takes a spark to make the dark run away
"Countering the danger of complacency is the danger of fatalism" spot on. 👏
It’s only weird if the contrasting opinion doesn’t suit you.
I still hate piers but sometimes he is right
He even goes against free speech. Especially when talking about his friends of a certain group that cannot be named. So I just call them Voldemorts.
imgine Piers reading Mill’s On Liberty and reckoning with the constraints on “free speech” the master conceded. How is this dufus taken seriously?
Piers REEEEALLY needs to stop botoxing his forehead :/ 🧊
Splitting water could be the solution to replacing fossil fuels energy.
This video got a surprisingly low amount of views. Did the algorithm somehow not favor it?
Not sure it's the right niche but Schwerpunkt commented some of Pinker's works. For conservatives that channel is a goldmine of Traditional history
Any interesting conclusions there?
Trouble with people is that thay by don't like the truth keep going pier's great show ❤
Piers never misses a chance to sell himself.
How does that apply here?
@@EmperorsNewWardrobe He was flogging his own book within 30 seconds of starting the interview, that's how it applies here.
@@taylorlibby7642no he didn’t? He mentioned Steven’s book in the first minute
@@taylorlibby7642 Oh dear - you've had a mare
@@EmperorsNewWardrobe0:53 - "I actually quoted from you in my own book...."
That white-haired guy is in Fantasyland
This is SO good.
Waffle waffle waffle, basically. For a fee 😉
Less talk....More work. For one thousand seven hundred seventy seven years America did great without a constitution. What in hell is a constitution doing to America, your feeling it today. 😂😅😂
Don't forget England lost The Ashes Piers...........again!!!!!
Weird concept? Seems like common sense to me … you can use your mouth to say the words you want ? So weird !!!!!!
Obviously the easy bit is your right to say what you want, but the more counterintuitive aspect is to protect your enemy’s right to say the most abhorrent things
Counter argument. This perspective is like a group of rowdy men who spend 4 carefree weeks in a holiday home. Completely trashe the place and doesn't tidy up after themselves; food waste, beer bottles etc. Then happily hand the keys over to the next visitors, a young family with two young kids who have worked hard to be able to aford 5 days in the holiday home. Those parents then have to spend the next few days working around the clock to tidy the house to how it should be whilst also looking after and picking up after the 2 kids as they go. Leaving 1 day to recover before returning home to work a 9-5. 😐
wtf is that analogy
If the vatholic church can buey 5 years yet academia cant find oone of them
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yeah i like piers but free speech is just that nothing can justify other than that
His last two books are a must read for anyone interested in the greater good.
the news should be renamed to the bad news
Fear is the imagination killer. It is the default or standard approach to the anxiety of having a mortal life.
Conjecture about the future - it's like everything else, the conclusion you come to, depends on the state of your own mind.
It’s also the weakening of moral fortitude, children are taught, indoctrinated and praised for failure. It’s is having a dangerously bad effect on our society and is not getting better.
Free speech shouldn’t be confused Hate speech and insight to violence. A number of countries has clear rules in their constitution distinguishing these. Countries that don’t have this uses Free speech as a leverage against those that has. This is where the red line must be drawn.
I understand having an incitement line. I would agree with that. If you're calling for violence on people regardless of the reason why it should be punishable. As long as saying you dislike someone or their ideas or mocking them isn't the standard for "violence"
Hate speech laws though... Absolutely NOT. They are subjective and vague by nature. There are a few "free" nations (Canada, UK off the top of my head) with hate speech laws that have jailed/fined people for "offensive" jokes. Personally, I find that a VERY slippery slope because whether or not something is "offensive" is up to whoever is hearing it at the time. I would find the whole concept laughable if it didn't have potentially dire consequences.
What a head of hair on Dr Pangloss!
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Free Speech was the precurser to the scientific method.
I suppose it depends on what you mean by both "free speech" and the "scientific method." Francis Bacon came onto the scene well before England's Bill of Rights.
@@marshallbeggs Freedom of expression and speech are values that the Romans and Greeks worked on. Secularism was very important.
@@peanutnutter1 "Secularism was very important"? Yeah, maybe to anyone who dared offend the gods or was even accused of implying that they didn't exist - like Socrates who was executed for "corrupting the youths of Athens/" I guess that's the kind of "free speech" you really support. You're either ignorant of the whole Greco-Roman pantheon or just don't have a clue about the definition of "secular."
@@marshallbeggs I'm talking facts but you're spouting nonsense
Steven Pinker is one of the greats
The ones who got cancelled are the ones who are stupid enough to get themselves cancelled