So one very humorous and kind of pathetic thing that people say nowadays is if they're trying to cope with their behavior that is they know is bad or it's bad for other people bad for themselves if they're trying to cope or justify their own behavior they will often talk of themselves as if they're not actually people they will dehumanize themselves they will say oh I'm sorry it's not my fault I'm not really a human I'm actually a giant chemical reaction and I can't control what I'm actually doing that is one of the most I don't know it's pathetic I don't know how exactly to react to it but it's really common to see people nowadays who instead of owning up to their behavior will start saying things oh well you know I'm just addicted to this or I just have you know I just have problems with things like this or you know I just I got a dopamine addiction or you know I have mental health issues and somehow like this excuses me and I just find it very funny now last year or so I forget when exactly I did a video called resisting temptation in fact you might be able to call this video resisting temptation to resisting temptation reloaded I don't know I think up some kind of name for it but either way I did that video ultimately on the fact that so many people will email me or ask me oh how do I quit this habit yada yada yada and I will always tell them what are you talking about like this is something that is directly within your moral control right and I gave people some advice for you know how to resist temptation you know how you know separate yourselves from a position of temptation and things like that but you know a lot of people that it's almost like the default the world view nowadays that people refuse to be responsible like the idea of being responsible for your own actions and owning them is so alien to people that they will speak as if like their behavior happens to them as if they don't choose their behavior you know common examples that people will get me you know ask me about is I don't know do like minor drug addictions or or pornography or like all these kind of things like none of them I mean pornography just as to use that as an example pornography is just not an addiction in any way shape or form okay if you're addicted to some kind of chemical right if you're chemically dependent on something if you don't have it you will you might start dehydrating and convulsing and you need severe medical care okay you'll need a lot of what you got to put in an IV got to take care of this person as they recover from their addiction pornography ain't an addiction in any way I mean people describe it as that like colloquially but it's not I mean it's just that a habit that people are get used to doing they they just repeatedly do it and oh it feels good I'm gonna keep doing it and then people who refuse to take moral agency will use this this line of addiction as a kind of a cope and here's how you know that it's not an addiction okay here's how we know that pornography and cooming is not an addiction because we can take you we will put we can put you in a room in a chair in the middle of nowhere okay with a bunch of people watching you and you will not spontaneously touch yourself you will not do that in front of other people because you do have that moral control to resist that and you you have that at any time um but you know it and if you don't consume pornography you don't start oh I I'm foaming from the mouth I oh I need my addiction I need my fix that doesn't happen it's fake that that's not a thing um so people have used this line of addiction or the idea of oh you know I'm I'm like this dopamine robot that I know and I have to do these behaviors as a cope for them really being weak-willed and probably not even being weak-willed what I said in the last video is this a lot of people will try to play boast sides they will try to get fleeting enjoyment from things that they know are bad and things that they know will hurt them or things that they know will hurt other people they will try to get those enjoyments and then they still want to seem morally superior so they will say oh well you know I do these things oh but oh I wish I could stop to oh they're just so bad you know I I try so hard to like not do this but I just can't help myself oh my goodness that that whole justification which you didn't see people people in the past making this is a very modern this is like a 20th 21st century cope right there can only be possible in a world of you know neuroscience and psychiatry they have given us this new verbiage to talk about human behavior as if it's not you making a decision but oh well we did we can describe it in chemical terms therefore it's the chemicals it's not you in fact you don't actually exist that so you can't be responsible responsible for anything you're just some passive observer to this robot that you live in that like that that is the the vision of the world that they are putting out there and a lot of people will fall for it not because they really fall for it not because they actually believe it but because it is so convenient because it gives people this moral out they can say oh well I'm not responsible for the things I'm doing like no big deal so I I can have this duplicity where I'm enjoying things that I know are bad and I can still pretend like I know that they're bad right so that is absurd and you know the the shame is we don't like we do call some people on this like children will do this 100% of the time children will always confabulate reasons why they want the cookie and they have to have the cookie and they have to do this and they have to do this that or the other but for whatever reason some adults quote unquote adults kid ults right can get away with this kind of behavior and people don't call them on it immediately because there's this entire edifice of you know pseudo psychiatry and psychology that justifies it to people it makes it sound intellectual to just you know do whatever you want okay and it's it's totally silly now I do want to add something else in that last video on resisting temptation I did give people some advice you know although you do have ultimate moral authority over the things you do there are some heuristics there are some rules of thumb you can take to make making those decisions easier okay because you know things that you have as a habit they are a little more difficult to overcome I mean you can still easily overcome them right it's it's an issue of will but you can easily make things better by separating yourselves from the temptation right one thing that I didn't really pound on in that in that video but I want to talk about now is you know there's something I omitted and it's actually yet another biblical recommendation right so in the sermon on the mouth Jesus makes this passing remark people often quote quote it but it'll say okay well you know that adultery is bad okay but if you look at a woman with the intent of possibly committing adultery with her that's basically just as bad okay now it isn't going to big detail about why that is but let's think about this what I see a lot of the times is I mean to use the example of pornography again okay a lot of guys will say oh I don't want to watch pornography and here's what their brains will do their brains well now I'm talking about it in third person but you know what I mean in they think they're very smart they will think things like this ah see I don't want to watch pornography but you know maybe I'll just oh you know I have sexual needs maybe I just need some stimulation it's natural oh I need this so I'll just look at you know pictures of girls in bikinis or something like that right you know oh I I'm addicted I I can't quit told cold turkey because that's hard quote unquote because a soianist told me that which is nonsense um but oh so I'll go like instead of doing the whole thing I'll go 90% of the way there and when you're doing that you have more or less already consented to do it right so that that's Jesus's point like if you're if you're tempted by sexual temptations the easiest way to stop you know committing those sins is not to go night you know not to you know pick up a girl in the club hang out with her take her back to your house and then say oh well you know I'm not going to do it with you like that's a very stupid way to resist sin it's just not do not start going down that path it's much easier to prevent ah bad behaviors prevent yourself from falling into temptation not by going 90% of the way and then stopping but stopping at the very beginning right saying okay uh you know I'm just not I'm not even going to like look at women in a way to size them up for sexual exploits I'm just gonna stop there I'm you know if I see pictures of girls like this on the internet on a random web form or something I'm just gonna scroll by I'm gonna minimize I'm gonna block that account whatever right so that is the real way to resist these things and because uh really you know if you are consenting like if you're starting to walk down that path you've already tacitly said that you want that and you're doing exactly what I talked about you're doing the thing where you say oh well you know I'm trying to resist this right oh but it's so hard and here let me get closer and closer and closer and closer to the temptation oh what was me I can't do it right it's it's utterly the thing is you you you are not deceiving anyone but yourself you really are not deceiving anyone and everyone else around you who's going along with it they know that you're full of crap too they're just like okay yeah like it's so annoying when you see people like this nowadays when you're like uh you know people will do impulsive things that anyone can resist and they will just make up these reasons I don't know it's just kind of frustrating to be honest um so that's about it do not trust anyone who talks about humans as if they are not humans may I don't know maybe you are an NPC maybe you can't control your behavior I don't freaking know I'm gonna guess you're not okay but that that's kind of the irony of it like modern society gives you the verbiage to make you an NPC to make you feel like you don't actually have control over your own behavior and that's the thing that's most upsetting but don't trust anyone who's like that don't even don't try not to ever talk about humans uh in terms of oh we're just chemical reactions and we can't uh you know there's no I mean even if you believe in mere materialism okay it is still legitimate to talk about a complex system at multiple layers of abstraction it's still appropriate to talk about humans as if they have will even if you don't believe in a soul frankly um but don't trust those people who try to justify human behavior by talking about it as if it's just something beyond your control if it's not in your control who's control is it in I'm sorry like this is just stupid um yeah and resist temptation at the beginning not at the end those are the points that's what I got to say resisting temptation reloaded I don't know what I'm gonna call this one