 asks, one of your biggest assets is your mindset, and Objectivism allows you to understand the world in order to achieve values, values seeking confident mindset, you will need to sustain yourself and then resist evil for your lifetime. I mean, I don't, I don't find this, you know, I get what you say, I, yeah, I agree with what you're saying, but I don't find, I'm just going to pick on one little phrase here. I don't find the phrasing of resisting evil very helpful. It's not, I mean, it's very Christian again, it's very original sin. It's very the fall kind of attitude. It's not like there's a little devil on my, on my shoulder, on my shoulder, constantly whispering to me, oh, you should, you should kill that person, you should rape, you should steal that, you should, I mean, that's ridiculous. It's not like there's some evil tendency constantly saying, oh, you should evade, you really shouldn't be rational. There is no resisting evil. I don't view it as resisting evil, I don't resist evil. Evil has no presence in my life. Evil is a non-existing force. That's what objectivism gives you. Evil is just not there. What happens if the guide to living your life is reason and rationality? If, if, if the issue is you should live rationally, then you're living rationally. And, and in what context is, do I resist evil? Oh, now I'm not going to live rationally. Why would I ever think that? Why would I ever want that? Why would I desire that? Why would that ever come into my mind? And it doesn't. Not once you integrate objectivism fully. There's not this temptation or to use what's his name, Ben Shapiro, there's not that temptation to go sleep with every good looking woman at the bar. Why? Why would I even go there? Why would my mind even go there? It just doesn't. It's just not, I'm not constantly fighting my emotions because my emotions are lined. I'm not constantly suppressing them, putting them down. Oh, no, we can't do that. That would be evil. It's, it's, this is what it means to live a rational life and to integrate your life around rational values is there is no temptation of evil. There are choices to be made. And there are options. It's not like the path is easy and there are no choices and it's just one way. But, but it's not, it's not like, you know, it's, it's, it's choices within scope of the things that are open to you, and the things that are available, and the things that are rational. But it's not like, ooh, they're doing cocaine there. I wonder what that's like, I should go do cocaine. So resisting evil comes from a religious perspective that views good and evil as metaphysical forces in the world. And, and, and, and all it comes from a Christian perspective that says, we are all fallen, we are constantly tempted by bad and by evil. And life is a constant, is constantly a resistance of, of those temptations. But that's nonsense. It's not what life is. Evil, by the way, is not a religious form, not at all. Evil existed before religion, before Christianity was invented, before formal religion was invented. Evil is a concept in morality that relates to, you know, moving against life, moving towards death. And evil in the objectives context is about evasion. It's about not being rational. But there is no evil force in the world. There is no evil temptation in the world. And there, and evil is not, again, it's, it would be like morality is a religious term. No, not at all. There was morality before religion, and there certainly is morality after religion. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching. Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to iranbookshow.com slash support, by going to Patreon, subscribe star locals, and just making a appropriate contribution on any one of those, any one of those channels. Also, if you'd like to see the Iran book show grow, please consider sharing our content. And of course, subscribe, press that little bell button right down there on YouTube, so that you get an announcement when we go live. And for those of you who already subscribers and those of you who already supporters of the show, thank you. I very much appreciate it.