Back to episode — Episode 1328 Scott Adams - Arguments For and Against Vaccine Passports, Everstuck Ship, And Trump Fun
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avirus. In both cases. And Naomi Wolf, Dr. Naomi Wolf, also a skeptic. Now here is my problem with skeptics. Once you are known as the famous skeptic and you are getting a lot of attention and reward for being that famous skeptic, you kind of need to be right. Meaning that even if you are wrong you need to be right. Whereas somebody who has not committed that forcefully to the position — and I wo…
← Previous segment →u if you have a moral authority to do what you are doing. And he did. He had moral authority, which is greater than their authority, and he took it. He basically just expressed moral authority and got away with it. Very good. Very, very good work, I would say. And good for the country. We wanted to see that.
All right, that is pretty much what I want to talk about. Somebody says the faces are blurred before broadcast. Yeah, if you are being responsible. And the pictures that I did see, they were blurred. But what the worker could not know is whether Ted Cruz would do that. And that is fair, right? Now if it had been a professional news crew you might have had a little more certainty that they would agree to and actually blur out the faces. But was Ted Cruz going to go through all the editing of blurring out dozens of faces? Probably not. Probably not.
Somebody says do illegals get a right to privacy? But here I would question the use of the word right. And my answer is probably not. I mean I assume that if you are not a legal citizen you do not have all the same protections. Maybe you do actually. Maybe you do. I guess I am not enough of a lawyer to know the answer to that. Maybe you do. But I do not think it is the right question. The reason that privacy is even an expectation is because all of us think it is something that people should have, like regardless of what the law is. We all kind of think people should get some privacy. So I do not think that whatever the law is or the Constitution should be the guiding principle in this case, because there is a moral law on top of that that is just bigger. It is just bigger.
Once they are on U.S. soil then they do. Somebody says we should all have privacy and also vaccine passports. Okay, well the thing with privacy and the thing with all of my arguments is that if you ever see any of them as absolutes, the problem is on your end, because I do not present anything as an absolute. Privacy is good, but also restricting what people can do so that you can have a functioning civilization is also good. They can both be good, right? You could have times when you are trading one for the other. There is nothing wrong with that.
Somebody says moral laws have no place outside of religion. Well moral laws do not maybe, but acting in a moral way — you could take away the word law if you like — but acting in a moral way is just something we should expect of each other. It does not have to be on the books. Privacy is a form of public restriction. That is correct. Good point. That is right. If you have privacy you are restricting me from that information. Now I am not saying that is wrong. I am just saying that there is no such thing as just freedom to have a civilization. It is all about restriction. That is what makes it a civilization, is restriction.
Mind your own business. Somebody says that is a perfectly reasonable statement. So if somebody says you know our philosophy or our point of view should be everybody just mind your own business, if you could be consistent on that you would have something. The trouble is it is not one of those things you can be consistent on, because we really cannot mind our own business and live in the same physical place. You could try, but it could not possibly work.
Oh, so there is a great fake news story about I guess a couple of rappers or hip-hoppers or whatever is the best word, musical acts, creating
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a Satan-based sneaker with a drop of human blood in each sneaker. To which somebody on Twitter asked, do you really think there is a drop of human blood in each of those sneakers? I am going to go out on a limb and say that it is one of the best marketing schemes you will ever see, because we are all talking about it. But I do not think there is a drop of blood in every sneaker. I mean anything is…
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