Stefan Molyneux

[paulpablo]

I don't think I've seen this persons name being mentioned on this forum before and I wondered what you all thought of this guy.

He's a youtube personality, a philosopher. Pretty opinionated guy.

I have mixed feelings about his videos.  He seems to make a lot of sense but I've mentioned before how I hate it when people present vague opinions on complicated topics as clear black and white facts.
It might seem like a petty example to give but in one video he's talking to a man about flirting with girls and he basically says the guy shouldn't have pride in flirting with a girl at mcdonalds because he's just manipulating a girl who has an IQ of 85 at the highest.

I'm not saying there's no correlation between career and IQ but I've personally known people who have had ups and downs in their career like a roller coaster and I'm pretty sure there was no IQ change relating to the career change and to brand the flirting as manipulation just makes it sound sinister.

Ontop of that the video also makes other oversimplified statements such as talking about how women won't want to be with a guy who has abs in the long term because they will sense that the guy spends too much time in the gym and not enough time earning money by putting overtime in work. That makes me think does that mean all a guy needs to do to attract girls is to stay at home on the playstation and eat donuts and she will then assume he's a high ranking executive putting the overtime in because he's podgy?

But then I do think his ideas are interesting, there is obviously some sense to his opinions even if they are arrogantly presented.  He calls out a lot of white male privilege as being bullshit and I agree with some of his ideas on that, but again I think some of his ideas on even the topics I agree maybe oversimplified.

 I don't know much about government and politics but he also talks a lot about taxation being theft.  I don't have much knowledge about a lot of the topics he talks about so that's one of the main reasons I'd like to know other peoples opinions on the guy.

[Pyrrho]

[paulpablo]

I just realized there's been a thread about him already on this forum and not many people had heard of him when that last post was put on here either.
I haven't exaggerated about anything in my posts of what he said except he might not have said all women don't want a guy with abs long term, it might have been a certain type of woman.
But even so I can't see it being correct to pigeonhole a woman who wants or doesn't want a guy with abs as being a certain type, there's many different reasons behind attractions.  Additionally I think usually the physical attraction or repellent with abs and other body parts isn't usually a conscious choice I think, guys don't look at tits and think "That woman will definitely have fertile eggs and good breeding capability"  So I doubt a woman would  hardly ever look at a guys abs and assume he's not spending enough time in work earning money because he must be at the gym too much and would therefore not be a worthwhile long term partner.
I thought some people on here might have heard of him because a few people on here are into politics, and this guy does talk about atheism sometimes, I think he is an atheist from what I can tell.


By the way I think I probably cast Stefan in quite a bad light in my first post, I was only listing the things he does which annoy me. People post stuff online all the time that I find irrational and annoying, but the reason why this guy interests me is that I do find a lot of his opinions on other things either interesting or totally correct, but then he will come out with the odd thing that I find totally irrational.

[Exian]

The guy is an idiot. His views are stark and extreme. If he ever says anything that you find yourself agreeing with, his version has not been tempered or balanced with exceptions or situational sensitivity. He's a walking blanket generalization.

[brewer]

Never heard of him prior. Tried to listen to some youtubes, couldn't. Comes off as holier than thou IMO. That's when it's my time to check out.

[downbeatplumb]

The guy is an idiot. His views are stark and extreme. If he ever says anything that you find yourself agreeing with, his version has not been tempered or balanced with exceptions or situational sensitivity. He's a walking blanket generalization.

"Walking blanket generalization" added to list of interesting phrases. scribble scribble.

[Captain Scarlet]

Mixed for me.  I find myself agreeing with a lot of what he has to say, but it can come across badly.  Also I was also surprised that (during a debate) he was so open to a theist perspective on Evolution being a lie and the micro/macro distinction that is promulagted.  It made me wonder if he is as well researched on some of these topics as he might be.

[Minimalist]

Never heard of him.