Rating Your Philosophical HOT TAKES

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0:00 Intro
0:29 God shows sinners mercy by sending them to hell
1:09 The Catholic Church is correct in everything she teaches
2:11 The eucharist is about cannibalism
2:24 Ending my life is my choice
7:10 Life is always worth living
8:16 Libertarian free will exists
8:23 Forgiveness can be toxic and impede personal growth
9:47 Jesus is the only way to eternal life
10:10 What's a hot take?
10:19 If moral realism is false then nothing matters
10:57 Even if I am 100% certain of something, it can be false
12:48 Time doesn't exist
3:03 Dialogues are overhyped
15:02 The reason incest is wrong is because it's "icky"
16:55 Democracy is a breeding ground for populism
17:54 Outro

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[alexwilks]

"Suffering from a poverty of imagination" is going straight onto my gentle insults list

[Blate]

The most insane take in this video BY FAR is that minty is the opposite of spicy.

[diegog]

Using suicide as a segue to the sponsor was definetely indian spicy

[queendaisy]

Here’s my hot take: someone who is medically psychopathic and thus feels no empathy towards other humans but chooses to behave ethically towards them anyway is more morally praiseworthy than someone who does good because it appeases their conscience.

[mstlylg]

"Minty" being the opposite of "spicy" needs it's own philosophical discussion.

[daminox]

Rating the guy who complained you didnt clearly define "hot take" was hilarious lol

[ICircuit]

My mintiest take is that Alex should make more videos like this. The debates are brilliant, but i like his solo videos the most where he is just talking about stuff.

[jadekemp]

I think people that are against euthanasia dont understand that there are cases where it is indicated. I am willing to share my experience to give a better understanding why someone might want to end their life on their own terms.
I grew up in a household of neglect and abuse and spent most of my teens living out of black bags without a stable home.
I found a reason to live and have dedicated my life to helping reduce the suffering of others. I worked through my trauma and put myself through school and became a registered veterinary nurse. I have specialised and work in a small animal intensive care unit. I have held many animals during their last breaths and many when they are left are not peaceful.
Euthanasia means good death and in a lot of cases where treatment and recovery is futile, it is a final act of compassion and kindness. It is the cessation of suffering.
I am now 30 years old and also have been diagnosed with Huntingtons disease. Its an incurable, neurodegerative disease with no cure and no treatments. I have started to exhibit the first signs of the disease this year. Left on its own, it takes 10-15 years before I'll be completely bed ridden in a vegetative state.
I'm not afraid to die but I am petrified of slowly rotting. Losing my faculties. Someone who had to be so independent would have to depend on others to perform basic human functions. I dont want that. After all that I have been through, and will continue to go through, do I not also deserve to go quietly, and with dignity on my own terms when the time is right? I do not want to kill myself, I simply want to pass away whilst I am still myself. Do I not deserve that kindness?

[chrisdaley]

My hot take is that people often don't properly consider themselves in relation to the philosophical questions they ask. It causes them to anguish over things they don't need to. A classic example would be "what's the meaning of life?" I think it's much more important, from a personal wellbeing standpoint, to consider "why do I want to know what the meaning of life is?" "how would I change if I knew the meaning of life?" etc. When you ask these questions it seems more apparent to me that the original question is malformed and doesn't really need an answer. There are a few different questions with this problem; "what's the true nature of reality?", "do we have free will?", "do we have a soul?", "what is morally correct?" etc. They all have implicit assumptions and motives that originate from our human experiences and it appears more beneficial to me to understand those assumptions and motives and why I have them than the answers to those questions.

[progresspiper]

A horse walks into a bar. The barman says "Hey, you've been in here a lot lately. Do you think you have a drinking problem?" The horse responds "I don't think so". And with that, the horse immediately disappears into thin air.

That was the joke. It's a play on René Descartes's "I think therefore I am".

I couldn't tell you the last bit before the joke as I didn't want to put Descartes before the horse.

[BroSanti]

Being in an extreme Christian fundamentalist household, your videos create a really safe space where I can think about philosophy and religion in a much less narrow view. I just wanted to thank you for that, I love your stuff.

[cosmicprison]

The darkest stories humanity has come up with do not end with “everybody dies”; they end with the characters being condemned to eternal conscious suffering. From the Greek punishments of Sisyphus, Tantalus, Prometheus etc. to the biblical concept of hell to modern stories like “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” to Grimdark concepts such as the sarcophagus / helbrute in Warhammer 40k, or the ending of the video game “Scorn”.

[oli]

Mate I can't get over the fact that I started following you only when you were 16...and you have now grown into such a well balanced thinker.

[seionne]

My hot philosophical take is that Alex's facial hair leads to his opinions carrying more weight

[jimmygravitt]

After watching my Nana suffer for several years, in pain and confusion and terror, while my aunt spent most her time caring for my Nana, causing so much suffering, assisted suicide should absolutely be allowed. I am convinced that my Nana would have filled out a living will while cognizant that allowed for assisted suicide given the physical and mental state she was in.

[santagonewrong]

So, as someone who has attempted suicide before, I wanted to comment on the suicidality one. I think it's very easy for people who haven't had a lot of contact with suicide to go straight to "you should have a right to choose to die, so we shouldn't interfere with suicide attempts".

I think the thing that's missing in that analysis is the "of sound mind" aspect of decision-making. I do realize this may vary from person to person, but for many people (myself included), active suicidality comes during moments of crisis. The period of time during which you are in an emotional state where you would actually make an attempt (as opposed to just thinking about it) are generally fairly short and very acute. In other words, you are in a heavily altered state of consciousness. And as with signing legal contracts when heavily drunk, we generally accept that certain things you might in theory have the right to do can be abridged when in a heavily altered state.

So, while legal punishment for suicide or suicide attempts like you discussed is pretty abhorrent in my mind, I think it's reasonable to do everything in your power to prevent someone from successfully carrying out an attempt. I am very grateful that the people around me did that for me, and I hope that if I ever get there again, they would do so in the future. (Hopefully I won't but if I do.)

[drinks_menu]

I think this should be anonymous to get real shit out of people

[josephbelisle]

I have always believed that I had a right to die when I wanted to. I still do. Even when I was a Christian. It is an inner belief. Of course I've always felt compassion and empathy for anyone who committed suicide.

[coweatsman]

The libertarian had no choice but to write that he had "free will".

[derpauleglot]

"Suicide's a crime. The legal term is irreparable damage to company property. What Eugene did to himself was vandalism." - the Outer Worlds