 Why do people think objectivism is quote too harsh and holds man to unrealistic standards? I mean, I don't hear that criticism often. I've heard that kind of criticism and it is, it does say that you should be rational and you should be all the time. Yep. And it does say that the moral perfection is possible, that you should be good all the time. And indeed, from objective perspective, those two are the same. To be good all the time is to be rational all the time. But from objective perspective, these are chosen states. So to be rational is not to be right all the time. You might make mistakes, you might make errors, but you're actually putting in the effort to think and to try to figure out what's true. You won't always succeed. And so it's conception of morality is it's chosen. And so it's possible to be morally perfect. In the sense of again, rationality doesn't mean you always reach the truth or always reach knowledge you're always correct. But you can always be trying. And the conventional conceptions of moral perfection are intimidating, because they're impossible. So if it's that you should have no personal desires, and you should subordinate your whole life to other people, or in religious kind of thing, that it's you should have no sexual desires, and that the height of being a moral saint is being devoid of earthly desire and so on. It's people right, like this is impossible. Or if I have to give everything to other people, like I need to be dead if I did this. It's so the idea that someone tells you you need to be morally perfect is scary. And it's no way am I going to do that. So when objectivism says no, you need to be morally perfect, if the person's translated in his mind, it's so you or a whole want me to try to live up to an impossible standard and say, and you're going to keep criticizing me if I don't. That's harsh. It is harsh. Yeah, be like Jesus, right? Jennifer says it. And be like Jesus mean on a cross like that? Yeah. But there's also the other kind of the libertarian view, which is I think, driven by wind worship and subjectivism. It's like, you want to limit my whims? You want to tell me I can't just do whatever I feel like doing and you're harsh. You want me to be rational, right? But sometimes I just, I don't want to be rational. So I think that's the, I hear it more from libertarians, this particular view, because they feel constrained. And they also partially links up to Christianity again. They think of morality as a set of commandments. So they think of objectivism as, I mean, seven virtues, seven commandments. This is what I have to do. And so they completely drop the context of the objectivist morality. But yes, it's to protect their whims. It's to protect their win worshiping. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think, meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, whims or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of despair, cynicism, and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist. All right, before we go on reminder, please like the show. We've got 163 live listeners right now. 30 likes. That should be at least 100. I figured at least 100 of you actually like the show. Maybe they're like 60 of the Matthews out there who hate it. But at least the people who are liking it, you know, I want to see, I want to see a thumbs up. There you go. Start liking it. I want to see that go to 100. All it takes is a click of a click of a thing, whether you're looking at this and you know the likes matter. It's not an issue of my ego. It's an issue of the algorithm. The more you like something, the more the algorithm likes it. So, you know, if you don't like the show, give it a thumbs down. Let's see your actual views being reflected in the likes. But if you like it, don't just sit there, help get the show promoted. Of course, you should also share and you can support the show at your own bookshow.com slash support on Patreon or subscribe star or locals and show you support for all, for the work, for the value, hopefully you're receiving from this. And of course, don't forget, if you're not a subscriber, even if you just come here to troll, or even if you're here like Matthew to defend marks, then you should subscribe because that way you'll know when to show up. You'll know what shows are on when they're on. You'll get notified. So, yes, like, share, subscribe, support, like, share, subscribe, support. There you go. Easy. Do one or all of those, please.