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The true history of ethics.

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Transcript
00:00This is the true history of what is commonly called morality.
00:08If you were the only thief in the world, imagine how easy your job would be.
00:13There would be no locks, no security systems, no passwords, no police.
00:18You could just take stuff and people would probably just assume they lost it.
00:24On the other hand, if everyone in the world was a thief, everyone would half-staff, no
00:29one would create more than they consumed in the moment because it would just be stolen.
00:35So if you want to be a great thief, the greatest perhaps, your best strategy would be to convince
00:43everyone else to stop stealing.
00:46Not because you think theft is wrong, you are after all a thief, but because you don't
00:51want the competition.
00:55Thus the most brilliant thieves invent property rights to make theft easier and more profitable.
01:04If everyone is a counterfeiter, money is worthless.
01:09If you want to be a great counterfeiter, the greatest perhaps, your first step is to convince
01:14everyone else that counterfeiting is immoral, wrong, evil and must be punished.
01:21Then you must convince everyone that your own counterfeiting is moral, good, virtuous
01:28and must be rewarded.
01:31This is what George Orwell called double-think.
01:37In order for us to accept such madness, the wheels of our minds must first be broken by
01:42indoctrination, by government, schools.
01:48Ethics, virtue, morality.
01:53These were not invented and inflicted from any desire to spread goodness, but rather
01:59to disarm and enslave others, to disarm and enslave you.
02:08The sequence is always the same.
02:10Invent a universal standard of good behavior and then create an invisible exception for
02:15yourself and your friends by calling it something else.
02:20Thou shalt not steal.
02:22Okay, all right, theft is wrong.
02:25Thus those in power have to call their theft taxation.
02:30Thou shalt not kill.
02:32Okay, all right, murder is wrong.
02:36Thus those in power have to call their murders wars.
02:42No kidnapping.
02:43Okay, all right, kidnapping is wrong.
02:46Thus those in power have to call their kidnappings incarceration.
02:52Violence is wrong.
02:54Okay, all right, using violence to get what you want is wrong.
02:59Thus those in power have to call their violence spanking or laws.
03:07Do you see the pattern?
03:09Create a universal moral rule and then create an exception for yourself and your friends.
03:17It's very easy to test this theory.
03:19Walk up to an average citizen and ask him if using violence to solve problems is good.
03:23He will say no.
03:26Point out that the state initiates force all the time in the pretense of solving problems.
03:31He will immediately start to defend the state.
03:34It is inevitable.
03:37People defend moral rules and then defend the most blatant violations of those same
03:43moral rules.
03:46This is how we are controlled.
03:49This is how we are propagandized.
03:52This is how money dies.
03:55This is how freedom dies.
03:58This is how we die.
04:05Someone gives you a moral rule.
04:06The first thing to do is to examine not the rule but the exception.
04:11Who is not bound by that rule?
04:14Who gets to do the exact opposite?
04:17It will always be those in power.
04:19That is why moral rules exist.
04:25Any thinker who actually tries to apply universal moral rules universally is considered insane,
04:32bizarre, ridiculous.
04:35Because the purpose of universal morality is the exception, the violation.
04:44Governments disarm citizens by denying them weapons, while retaining monstrous weapons
04:50in the hands of the state.
04:53It is the same with morality.
04:57Open your mind.
04:59Open your eyes.
05:02We can only avoid the traps we can see.