that's right so in this video we're going to be diving into the moral
philosophy of oniisan so in this video we're going to be doing some critical
thinking so if you are incapable of having a mature conversation to just
kind of think and ponder on some things this is the wrong video for you what is
up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the
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to cut this in and editing because I forgot to say it at the intro but
anyways those of you who saw my last video you know I used to have a policy
do not talk about oniisan so what I am doing is any of my videos
on Onishi on that are actually monetized I am giving 100% of the accents revenue
to charity all right the charity that I've picked for these only see on videos
is rain or AI and I will also put a link down in the description and in the pin
comment below if you would like to donate to this amazing organization
directly alright so my channel and a bunch of
other creators like your channels just kind of evolve and grow and change I
think a great example of this is Shane Dawson like when I first started
watching it with my son he was like trying weird foods and like weird life
hacks and stuff like that and I was doing like these are insane series but
anyways something that I've been really fascinated with recently is moral
philosophy moral psychology and everything like that
but like I said like when I do these videos like it's really gonna weed
people out people who are not interested in critical thinking and
have an intelligent dialogue these videos aren't going to be for you so
this might get rid of a bunch of people who aren't into that stuff and that's
cool but we're gonna be having tough conversations and I'm doing this video
first I have another video planned for tomorrow but if you can handle this
video tomorrow's video I'm a little bit worried about because we're gonna get
even more controversial alright so anyways I am absolutely fascinated by
human nature okay like especially after going through what I went through this
year just seeing how people respond seeing how people's emotions get the
best of them just see how we throw away logic and rationale just like as soon as
we get emotional right and I've been really just
researching and trying to figure out why that is and I've just been reading a ton
so when I sit back and I kind of analyze oniisan
I'm fascinated right because the dude is a bad dude right but like most of the
channels you're watching they pretty much just end there like that is that
that is the ceiling right there like this guy is bad he does bad things right
and I want to do something different like let's explore this a little bit
more alright so those of you who watch the video I get on RepZilla the other
day I referenced this essay called the myth of pure evil and I'm gonna link it
again down in the description below but I want to start this out by reading this
really interesting section from the myth of pure evil from Roy Baumeister all
right the myth of pure evil may also be
important for us as social scientists to understand for methodological reasons we
researchers are people too and come to the problem if evil with the same ideas
images and prejudices that others in our culture have our initial tendency will
be to view the perpetrators of evil through the lens of this
myth and to assimilate their actions to it in a revealing passage in the Nazi
doctors robert jay lifton remarked that when interviewing some of these men he
occasionally began to see the world and events as the man himself had seen them
and to begin to feel some sympathy towards the man at that point liftin
said he always pulled back and reminded himself that this person was an evil
monster not a decent human being like the rest of us while I sympathize with
Lifton's moral conviction to me that point is precisely where he fails as a
social scientist this captures the dilemma that I noted earlier of the
conflict between scientific understanding of evil and moral judgment
of it to refuse to understand the perpetrators in their own terms is
ultimately to abandon the project of scientific understanding in favor of a
moral condemnation my preference is that if you want to understand then you may
have to set aside moral judgments these people were after all people not evil
monsters we may condemn them and their actions and indeed we should but perhaps
we cannot do that precisely while we are trying to understand them scientifically
refusing to recognize the humanity of the perpetrator is probably an
insertable obstacle to fully understanding the genesis of his or her
violent acts so what does that mean okay that means that this video might not be
for you okay because when you're diving into moral philosophy and moral
psychology like you have to get your emotions out of here you have to throw
them away it's like the first person to jump to opinions based on their emotions
rather than sitting back and trying to look at situations as objective as
possible you're out you're done so remember that game like red light green
light right and you would like go go go green light in the red light
stop right maybe I still be moving as I go you're out right like that's kind of
what this is like so basically what boy Baumeister is saying is this dude robert
jay lifton who is a social scientist he did a book called the Nazi doctors right
and he interviewed Nazi doctors and through getting to talk to them and
everything like that he started to understand what they were doing and
sympathize with them and he would snap out of him like no no no these guys are
disgusting monsters like if you're a scientist you cannot do that right and
when we're looking at these situations that's how I want to look at him I want
to try to get an understanding so what I'm getting at is when it comes to
oniisan what absolutely fascinates me about him is he doesn't think anything
he does is wrong all right so this paper is titled the myth of pure evil because
I just want you to sit back and think about that for a second right it is very
rare that a person is doing something intentionally because they just want to
cause chaos and destruction right like when you think about the most
devastating acts that have ever happened in the history of mankind people did it
with some kind of motive people thought they were doing it for a good reason for
example we just had the anniversary of 9/11 not that long ago like the people
who did that horrendous act everybody involved they thought from their point
of view that they were doing something right all
right so when we look at ohnice eons moral philosophy and the way he thinks
and the way he talks and voices his opinions right he thinks that this is
the way the world should work all right and obviously it's something that a lot
of us do agree with and some of these things are
laws that are actually against the things that he is doing right but
whenever whenever I look at situations like this and I'm really trying to
analyze them I look at a person's past to like how did this person become the
way they are so I've referenced some books from like jump in height and some
other amazing authors philosophers psychologists and everything like that
and they've proven that even babies like by the time they're about 2 or 3 years
old they start to develop morals alright so
they they know the difference between right and wrong even kids like before
they even understand the whole world and how it works they understand the
difference between right and wrong so we start to look at what has formed these
people so when you look at someone like oneasy on I am NOT like a rep see I'm
gonna come soon these hell I don't know it's for history but from what I've
learned it sounds like oniisan had an abusive childhood and this is one of the
reasons why I say like parents straighten up your game all right
because like when you mess up a kid they turn into a messed up adults and they
start messing up other people and onision is a prime example of something
like that but again in his mind he thinks this is correct
his entire worldview has been shaped and molded by his life experiences but has
been shaped and molded you know in in a similar way that all of ours have been
shaped and what I mean is just this is how we become who we become so I look at
that and I'm like wow this is who he turned into but it's also interesting
see they've done a lot of studies on twins alright so you get identical sets
of DNA and you try to see if life experiences changed people so they've
actually done studies where they've had identical twins who one of them you know
went more liberal and one of them went more conservative or
one of them went on a path of success and one of them turned into a drug
addict and things like that so we see how situations mold people and turn them
into who they are right so when you look at it through that lens it's really
fascinating so the last thing I want to talk about to kind of analyze only
Sean's moral philosophy is actually a comment that I got on my last video so M
Ross said he bases a lot of his opinions and justifications on the law but that's
not good enough just because it's legal doesn't mean it's moral or ethical and
the same with things that are illegal that really shouldn't be like gay
marriage for instance was against the law and still is in many places so I
think that's a very very good point all right like some people this is why I
disagree with the moral philosophy of oneasy on because he tries to say that
about the law like remember when he like freaked out on on that girl for smoking
pot and wanted her a tattoo like liar or whatever and this whole basis on that
was because it was illegal like laws like Emma Ross just pointed
out laws are not always moral or ethical all right you guys have to remember it
was just a couple hundred years ago where it was legal to own as their
people all right so we really need to think about that and even when we're
kind of critically thinking about the laws that we all live by like is this
does this line up with my morals right and this is what you see with just even
you know with the upcoming elections next year right it's different people
who have different moral values and yeah I disagree with the law aspect of it now
there are plenty of laws out there like don't kill anybody that are excellent
all right but for example like we'd like a lot of the weed laws where like weed
is still like not legal like I live in Nevada it's legal here and I don't even
smoke but I'm like good like why would that
be illegal but alcohol isn't when it kills way more people you know what I
mean so anyways these are just some things that I want you to think about
and I would love to hear your thoughts down in the comments below because I
love diving into this stuff and let me know what you think about the myth of
pure evil let me know is it difficult for you to look at these situations
without letting your emotions and your own biases just run out of control right
and are you able to step away from that for a second and just kind of analyze
these situations like a scientist let me know down in the comments below alright
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