Freedomain Radio is basically a cult.

[John Shaw]

Like I said, I'm bad at recalling exactly what happened. Something involving candy.

I heard hat he was trying to get her to try eating s'mores and his wife told him to knock it off.

Of course, I also heard the exact same story being told as him trying to force feed his kid poison and the wife screaming at him. That person considers carbs to be poison.

[dalebert]

What we need here to clear up this confusion is some more 2nd-hand hearsay, and WHAT I HEARD was that Stef was giving his girl some chocolate and the mom came up angrily shouting "Don't give her chocolate!  She has to go poo for chocolate!"  Apparently they're using a reward system to encourage potty training.

[gibson042]

Poo For Chocolate is my R. Kelly cover band.

[John Shaw]

How old is his kid?

Under three.

[John Shaw]

What we need here to clear up this confusion is some more 2nd-hand hearsay, and WHAT I HEARD was that Stef was giving his girl some chocolate and the mom came up angrily shouting "Don't give her chocolate!  She has to go poo for chocolate!"  Apparently they're using a reward system to encourage potty training.

I'd forgotten the poo thingy because now that you mention it I recall that.

Either way, I can't imagine that event being called "Emotional abuse" either way.

This is basically the sort of backlash that anyone interested in terms like Ethics and Morality are going to have to put up with, anyhow. Scrutiny goes through the roof for every tiny lapse.

As if people claiming that being moral is preferable are automatically expected to have attained moral perfection or they are total hypocrites.

People who want to play professional baseball should always bat 1000.

People who teach other people to drive should never get into accidents.

People who value peaceful interactions should never get angry and express it.

Buncha crap. People are people. We occasionally fuck up. All of us. It's how we ultimately react when it's pointed out and proven to us that shows who we really are.

[BonerJoe]

How do you go poo if you don't want to? Abuse!

Signs you're following a cult...abatement of common sense...

[Cognitive Dissident]

http://wp.alexjonespodcasts.com/2011/april-2011/monday-7-11-2011-the-alex-jones-show-with-stefan-molyneux

Listened. (Skipped through the rest of the show. Can't handle Alex Jones)

Play by play:
15. YOU FUCKING OWE ME FOR GETTING ME TO LISTEN TO ALEX JONES WHARGARBL. [SUCKER!]  
19. Molyneux sez "You know the system is about to crash when Libertarians are invited to run the show." and suggests against being at the helm of the ship when it goes down. [The thought had crossed my mind.

Don't have time to listen to the second one, but if you can point out specific times I'll listen. Fool me once...

As I imagined....

[Cognitive Dissident]

This is basically the sort of backlash that anyone interested in terms like Ethics and Morality are going to have to put up with, anyhow. Scrutiny goes through the roof for every tiny lapse.

As if people claiming that being moral is preferable are automatically expected to have attained moral perfection or they are total hypocrites.

People who want to play professional baseball should always bat 1000.

People who teach other people to drive should never get into accidents.

People who value peaceful interactions should never get angry and express it.

Buncha crap. People are people. We occasionally fuck up. All of us. It's how we ultimately react when it's pointed out and proven to us that shows who we really are.

...People who want to live in a world without a state should provide every imaginable market solution immediately, when doubters call a world without a state impossible because you couldn't have _______ .

...People should not drive on the roads, accept unemployment benefits, defend themselves in the court system, ad nauseam, because the state "provided" them, and they're for living without the state.  (The idea that the market will provide them once the state stops shoving them down our throats makes absolutely no sense to them.)

[gibson042]

This is basically the sort of backlash that anyone interested in terms like Ethics and Morality are going to have to put up with, anyhow. Scrutiny goes through the roof for every tiny lapse.

As if people claiming that being moral is preferable are automatically expected to have attained moral perfection or they are total hypocrites.

I've thought on a few occasions that I'd be uncomfortable in Stef's shoes for precisely that reason. Trying to be a good parent is draining enough; I can only image how hard it must be to fight off the feeling that perfection is required.

And the more one tries to achieve, the more people plumb for failures.

[sillyperson]

"Don't give her chocolate!  She has to go poo for chocolate!"

As a parent, I give other parents a lot of leeway about their parenting. Lord knows, there's more than one way to do it. But poo for chocolate.... that's just weird, dude.

[alaric89]

I always hope they had used chocolate as as prop for poo when I accidentally click on a "2 girls one cup" type clip.
Makes me feel better about the second viewing.

[John Shaw]

I always hope they had used chocolate as as prop for poo when I accidentally click on a "2 girls one cup" type clip.
Makes me feel better about the second viewing.

The third viewing and the masturbation in the consecutive fourth through thirty seventh viewings may in fact be questionable, however.

[alaric89]

Yes.... Help is being sought.

[sandm000]

"Don't give her chocolate!  She has to go poo for chocolate!"

As a parent, I give other parents a lot of leeway about their parenting. Lord knows, there's more than one way to do it. But poo for chocolate.... that's just weird, dude.

No, the weird part is the exclusivity, leading to a bizarre pavlovian training that Halloween is the shittiest of holidays.
Seriously, if you only get to eat chocolate when you take a dump, you're going to have some messed up behaviors as an adult. Weird aversions or affinities, noam sain?

[Turd Ferguson]