Ben Shapiro: Facts don't care about your feelings | Michael Malice and Yaron Brook and Lex Fridman

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[jesserhodes]

This whole interview was so good I watched the entire four hours and now I am watching the short clips

[suviseshbharadwaj]

Emotion doesn't change the fact, but it plays a huge part in our interpretation of how the fact affects us. That's why it's termed the affective component. Emotions also differ slightly from feelings, which include cognitive appraisals and are subjective. Separating emotions and feelings and then evaluating events is a good start.
This is a big part of cognitive behavioral therapy.

[RizztrainingOrder]

Enjoyed Ben taking it like a champ when called out for not practicing what he preaches and on BBC he got into his feelings more than he cared about facts.

[marcuscato]

Someone please clip Lex saying "I'm a love maximalist." That's had me smiling for the last 15 minutes.
Much love to you Lex. Loved this episode!

[Raltie]

Dude, Lex was a great sport when they were teasing him

[fernandoj]

I think it is more about cognitive dissonance, when you confront irrefutable facts that go against your beliefs and your feelings caused by the attachement to those beliefs don´t let you accept those facts. I think the phrase should be facts don´t care about your beliefs. Ben Shapiro talks about particular situations when your feelings attached to certain beliefs don´t let you accept facts, he doesn´t say feelings are not important or other interpretations people are giving to the phrase.

[DANGER]

Facts don't care about your feelings. Unless they're my feelings they are100% objective and factual

[JustinKrux]

in simpler words, emotions are not there to directly dictate your actions, ideas and experiences, they are there to make you examine your actions, ideas and experiences. they are meant for awareness, not control.

[telltellyn]

Ben's whole act is to filter his "facts" through his feelings. Watched him for over a year and I'm still shocked it took me so long to see through his bullshit.

[sparklingicetea]

Ben Shapiro, like many conservatives, argues from feelings so often that it feels ironic that that statement came from him.

[xouat]

The implication of Shapiro’s statement is that policy should not have a moral basis but a purely functional one, it should be about what is deemed to work (which is ostensibly objective) rather what is thought to be right (which arguably is subjective). Besides the fact that this is both politically and philosophically misguided, Shapiro himself doesn’t hesitate to make moral arguments when it is his own principles that might be at stake.

[JBTFan]

Mike and Yaron should take this show on the road. I've never enjoyed a podcast so much.

[robertdimaggio]

These two together, are freakin gold Lex!

[thogameskanaal]

Great convo. I try to think as 'facts don't care about your feelings' more as advice not to willingly cling on to lies that are objectively, without a doubt, false in the pursuit of achieving a goal, be it a personal goal or a team effort. Shapiro himself is very down to earth, reality oriented, and as much as I could critique him for it, I admire it a lot as well.

[derekm.]

Ben Shapiro loves to say “facts don’t care about your feelings” until it involves his feelings...

[leoniciolopezgomez]

When I try to talk about actual reality with people they just look at me like I'm crazy. People live, including me, in a world of illusion.

[theStepFamm]

facts dont care bout faith either, but he never says much about that

[pwelsh]

These two guests are two of my favorite ever

[COpall]

Objective reality is, and will always be, the final arbiter of the validity of our subjective perspective. When our subjective perspective aligns well with objective reality, then our chances for survival increases. When our subjective perspective veers so widely from objective reality that we becomes totally disfunctional, totally unable to navigate our environment? Well, that is basically the definition of insanity.

[SK-fdkw]

They’re a bit off, regarding philosophical idealism. Kant’s point is that “reality” (the noumenon) is inaccessible. Epistemologically, there is ONLY subjectivity; we only have access to how things appear, not how they actually are. The best we can do is achieve inter- subjective agreement.