was part of the marches. A lot of women and a lot of men too marched because they're worried about their so-called abortion rights, and they don't want to lose them in the Supreme Court, because I guess there's some cases that are coming up that'll challenge Roe v. Wade.

Somebody's got a very cool 3D world. That's very cool. Anyway, so Alyssa Milano was a speaker. Now you may not be on her team. You know, she identifies with the left. Maybe you're on the right. You're saying to yourself, I don't like that Alyssa Milano. But I gotta tell you, she's good at what she does. And again, I like to compliment people I disagree with. I'm not saying I disagree with her. I'm just saying I'm going to give her a compliment. In this case I've disagreed with her on other stuff. But here's her argument, and she said this, and I quote, in a speech: "I can't believe how a handful of men"—talking about the Supreme Court—"I can't believe how a handful of men are successfully taking 50 years of rights away from women and how our Supreme Court, packed with abusers, is just gonna sit by and let it all happen."

Now, forget about whether you agree with her. I know you don't agree with her in many cases. Most of you probably don't. If you're watching this, you probably don't. Maybe you do. But just look at the persuasion. Here's the argument that doesn't work. We have a right to abortion. Does that argument move anybody? We've got a right. It's our right. Not really. How about "it's our bodies"? It's better, because everybody responds to that. Oh, it's our bodies. But we also know that the government does control our bodies, and we like it that way. We do. The government controls your body. Always has. And we like it that way. So it isn't really ever your body, your choice. You don't live in that world.

The government decides if you go to war. The government decides if you're free or you're in jail, because they make the laws. And if you don't follow them, they decide you're in jail, and then they put you in jail. You don't have control over your body. You want control over your body, maybe, but you don't have it. Not even close, right? So although the argument can be persuasive, it doesn't make any sense, because we gave away our rights to our body when we decided to have a government, basically. If they can draft you, they control your body. Now, I agree with you that you'd like less of it. Are we all on the same page? We'd all like less of that, right? There's nobody who's arguing, give the government more control over my body. No, nobody's on that side. I'm just saying you're already there. So the argument intellectually kind of fails, but persuasively I think it does work. It just doesn't work as well as what Alyssa Milano did.

What she did that really works—this is the best argument against the current situation. So she's arguing that it's men taking things away from women. Now, do you know how the psychology of humans works? Let's say if you were to compare these two things: which is the stronger psychological impulse, the impulse to not lose something you think you have, or the desire to get something that you want? Which is the stronger of the two? Not wanting to lose something you already have versus "Hey, I'd like a new thing. That'd be great." Yeah, the not losing something is the stronger one.

So notice how she phrases this in terms of a bunch of men taking things away from women. That's not bad, persuasion-wise. I'm not taking your stand on abortion. Can everybody understand that you're not going to hear my opinion on abortion? Because my opinion agrees with part of what she said—not the ultimate decision, but the part where she says why are men involved in deciding what women do with their bodies? That's pretty strong. It's the argument that I use for staying out of the whole thing.

If Alyssa Milano says to me—hey, Scott Adams, this is unlikely—but if she were to say to me, "Scott Adams, why are you even involved in this question?" I would say, good point. Good point. Why am