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Stefan Basil Molyneux (/stɛˈfɑːn ˈmɑːlɪnjuː/; born September 24, 1966) is a Canadian author, public speaker, and host of Freedomain Radio. Molyneux's areas of focus include libertarian political philosophy, voluntaryism based on the non-aggression principle, secular ethics, strong atheism, cryptocurrency (Bitcoin), history, non-violent parenting, and familial relationship issues. He has written and self-published eight non-fiction books, and his essays have been published on libertarian websites such as LewRockwell.com and antiwar.com. He is a frequent public speaker at political and technology conferences and has appeared on television, radio, and podcasts to discuss his views. Jeffrey Tucker of the Ludwig von Mises Institute has described Molyneux as "probably the single most influential libertarian thinker of our times" for his ability to teach young people in the digital age.

Molyneux left a career in technology, and now describes himself as a philosopher. His show, Freedomain Radio, has independently produced over 1,500 YouTube videos and 2,700 podcasts as of June 2014, and has attracted a dedicated community of listeners. On the show, he endorses voluntary interaction in all relationships, and some members of the show's community have become estranged from their families.

Early life

Molyneux was born in Ireland, but lived in England and Africa as a boy before settling in Canada around 1978. As a teenager, Molyneux was engrossed in computer programming, often spending free time in his school's computer lab. At 19, to earn money for school, he worked in northern Canada as a gold panner and prospector. In university, Molyneux pursued a career in acting and writing. After attending the Glendon College of York University, where he was a member of Theatre Glendon and the Debating Society, he spent two years at the National Theatre School of Canada graduating in 1990. Molyneux received a B.A. in History from McGill University in 1991 and an M.A. in History from University of Toronto in 1993. According to Molyneux, he focused on the history of philosophy and his thesis analyzed "the political implications of the philosophies of Immanuel Kant, G.W.F. Hegel, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke".

After graduation, Molyneux returned to his interest in programming. In early 1995, he and his brother Hugh Molyneux founded Caribou Systems Corporation, a provider of environmental management information system software headquartered in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto. Stefan held the position of Chief Technology Officer until the company was sold in 2000.

Molyneux's first fiction book Revolutions, set in late 19th century Russia, was completed in 1991, and published in 2002 by PublishAmerica after a decade-long search for a publisher in Canada. In 2002, Molyneux graduated from the Humber School for Writers where he completed a fiction book The God Of Atheists. His play Seduction (adapted from Turgenev's Fathers and Sons) appeared on stage in Toronto. His co-written 1998 short film After, based on his original short story about a soldier returning home from war, was a top 10 finalist at the Hollywood Film Festival and has aired on CBC and WTN.

Freedomain Radio

In 2005, Molyneux began a podcast called Freedomain Radio ("FDR"), which was a Top 10 Finalist in the 2007 and 2008 Podcast Awards in the Education category. Shortly after starting the Freedomain Radio podcast, Molyneux started a website under that name as a place to distribute his self-published books, host podcast archives, and act as a community forum for FDR listeners. Molyneux now releases most new FDR content via his YouTube channel, which as of June 2014 has over 1,500 videos, 162,000 subscribers, and 33 million channel views. Audio versions of new FDR content continue to be published also in podcast form, of which there are now over 2,700 produced. Molyneux distributes his non-fiction books and most of his spoken material free-of-charge. He eschews typical methods of funding the show, such as online advertising revenue, instead preferring the immediate feedback he gets from voluntary listener donations, a choice that he believes inspires him to produce high quality content. FDR offers additional podcasts, book and article drafts, and premium forum access to members that subscribe or make one-time contributions at various levels. The show's tagline is "The Largest and Most Popular Philosophical Conversation in the World".

On Freedomain Radio, Molyneux conducts interviews and debates with notable guests including Noam Chomsky, anarcho-libertarian theorist Walter Block, Zeitgeist founder Peter Joseph, psychological development and addition specialist Gabor Maté, developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik, child psychologist Peter Gray, Socratic journalist Jan Helfeld, Harvard economics lecturer and Cato Institute fellow Jeffrey Miron, intellectual property attorney Stephan Kinsella, Austrian School economist Robert P. Murphy, and Divorce Corp director Joseph Sorge. FDR also includes single-topic videos, commentary on current events, technology, and movie reviews from Molyneux's philosophical viewpoint. There is also a weekly call-in show where listeners can ask philosophy questions or discuss personal issues. These call-in shows have occasionally been guest-hosted men's movement activist Warren Farrell and unschooling advocate Dayna Martin.

Jeffrey Tucker of the Ludwig von Mises Institute has described Molyneux as "probably the single most influential libertarian thinker of our times" for his ability to teach young people in the digital age.

Public appearances

Molyneux is a frequent guest speaker at various libertarian conferences and events. He delivered a keynote at the New Hampshire Liberty Forum in March 2009, where he presented his "Against Me" argument – a method of conducting a political debate by inviting opponents to admit that they advocate for direct initiation of force. He's spoken at Liberty Fest NYC in 2011, FreedomFest in Las Vegas in 2012, and PorcFest 2010 and 2013 in Lancaster, New Hampshire. He has spoken at the Libertopia festival held in San Diego each year since 2010, and acted as master of ceremonies twice. Molyneux was emcee of LibertyFest West held in Odessa, Texas in February 2012.

Molyneux has appeared on television, radio, and other podcasts to discuss his viewpoints and popular videos. He has been a commentator on RT television programs Adam vs The Man, The Keiser Report, and Breaking the Set. He's been interviewed by ReasonTV and The Alex Jones Show. Molyneux has been a frequent guest host of the Peter Schiff Show since 2012, and has been both a guest and guest host of The Corbett Report. He has appeared twice as a featured guest on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.

In 2014, Molyneux debated drug legalization at Upper Canada College's World Affairs Conference. He also began a series of appearances advocating the use of Bitcoin for political change. He spoke at the Texas Bitcoin Conference, the Bitcoin Expo 2014 in Toronto, and The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam. He spoke on the topics of circumcision and maternal parenting at the International Conference on Men’s Issues in June 2014 in Detroit.

Philosophical views

Stateless society and DROs

Molyneux's 2005 essay The Stateless Society: An Examination of Alternatives, published by the libertarian website LewRockwell.com, introduced his conceptualization of dispute resolution organizations ("DROs") which, in a stateless society, provide or coordinate services related to enforcing contracts and resolving disputes. DRO's would operate under a system of anarcho-capitalism (a type of libertarian anarchism), as a result of broad acceptance of the non-aggression principle ("NAP") and the discontinuation of the government which, by its nature, violates the NAP. In such a stateless society, DROs would coordinate services previously provided by governments related to private defense, insurance, and courts. He explored this idea further in his book Practical Anarchy.

In June 2012, Molyneux was invited to debate in Brazil with Vladimir Safatle (link in Portuguese), a professor from the University of São Paulo. They debated The Role of the State in Society, with Molyneux advocating for statelessness and Safatle advocating for state socialism.

Universally Preferable Behaviour

In his 2007 book Universally Preferable Behaviour: A Rational Proof for Secular Ethics, Molyneux describes his approach for evaluating the validity of moral theories using logic and empiricism, comparing it to the use of the scientific method to prove physical theories. He proposes that if any moral statement lacks internal consistency by having flawed or self-contradictory structure, or if it can be shown to conflict with the rules of logic, it can be dismissed without further examination. The moral statement is then investigated for external consistency, by confirming that it adheres to observable evidence and arrives at the correct result for cases generally accepted as immoral, such as rape, murder, and theft. "Universally preferable behaviours", then, are the actions of people that comply with the universal moral statements that are objectively derived in this process and should be considered binding among people.

In 2011, Molyneux was invited by Students for Liberty to give a webinar on Universally Preferable Behaviour, and took questions and feedback from the audience.

In 2012, libertarian philosopher David Gordon gave a critical examination of the book in The Mises Review, stating, "is arguments are often preposterously bad". Gordon documented what he sees as fundamental flaws in philosophical reasoning, though he did praise Molyneux's insights into external verification, agreeing that "f a theory cannot show that a rule that purported to make obligatory is ill-formed, the theory should be rejected." Molyneux and Gordon later exchanged responses to the points raised in the review but could not come to agreement on key issues, such as universality.

Parent-child relationships

Molyneux is morally and ethically opposed to confrontational forms of child discipline, including corporal punishment (spanking), time-outs, grounding, and verbal abuse (yelling). In his view, children share the same universal natural right as adults have to be free from violence, and so the use of coercive force against them is a violation of the non-aggression principle. He advocates "peaceful parenting", which replaces discipline with preparation and reasoning.

In essays, his books On Truth and Real-Time Relationships, and on Freedomain Radio, Molyneux states his view that relationships between all individuals should be entirely voluntary, and that this also extends to familial relationships. He maintains that adult children can choose to estrange themselves by exercising their right to disassociate from parents or other family members if they no longer feel affection or desire contact, especially if they were abusive or neglectful. Molyneux refers to the childhood family that people are born into as the "FOO", an acronym "family of origin" (a phrase used in psychology) to distinguish it from family relationships chosen voluntarily as adults, such as spousal relationships.

In 2008, the parents of an 18-year-old Freedomain Radio ("FDR") community member took complaints about these views to media outlets in the UK and Canada, claiming that Molyneux is the leader of a "therapy cult", after their son abruptly broke off all contact with the family ("deFOOed"). The son called in to FDR in the weeks prior to ask about his veganism and his intense disgust towards people that eat meat or are cruel to animals. Molyneux quickly suggested that the source of this disgust was that son had grown up around someone in authority that was cruel to animals. The son confirmed this, describing memories of his father being verbally and physically cruel to the family cat, causing him to feel intimidated by the father, and then described his emotional detachment toward his mother and the rest of his family. The following month, the son left a note stating he no longer wanted contact and left home. A representative of the Cult Information Centre described the situation as "a worrying development", noting that cults often cut people off from their families. Molyneux provided evidence at the time to the media that, of the 50,000 regular listeners, only about 20 FDR members had "deFOOed". Molyneux added: "If I advised a wife to leave an abusive husband, there would not be articles about how I am a cult leader." One reporter said that relatives may not come forward due to concern that it may alienate their estranged family members further.

Strong atheism

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Molyneux advocates strong atheism, maintaining that the existence of deities can be disproven through the application of reason, logic, and empiricism. Molyneux expresses one such disproof of deity concepts that are defined as both omniscient and omnipotent by drawing upon the analogy of a "square circle", such as in this passage from Against the Gods:

A square circle is an impossible entity, and therefore cannot exist. We do not have to hunt the entire universe from edge to edge to know that a square circle does not exist; it is not an act of will to accept that a square circle does not exist, it is simply a recognition of reality and the nature of existence.
Take any property or ethic of the Christian God – to just pick on one absurd anti-concept – and the contradictory nature is clear."

• 'That which exists must have been created, but God, who exists, was never created.'
• 'God is all-knowing and all-powerful, which are both impossible.'
• 'God punishes a man for actions which are predetermined.'
• 'God punishes rebellious angels, although their rebellion was completely predetermined.'
• 'God claims to be morally perfect, although God fails the test of most of his 10 Commandments.'

Philosophy instructor and atheism author Peter Boghossian wrote the foreword to the Against the Gods. In it, he expressed his disappointment with modern academic philosophy's "limited expression, hampered inquiry, and an emphasis on issues that matter to almost nobody except the very, very few philosophers who study them". He praised Molyneux for going against this trend by providing arguments that are accessible and convincing to the masses.

Bibliography

Non-fiction

• On Truth: The Tyranny of Illusion (PDF). October 4, 2007.
• Universally Preferable Behaviour: A Rational Proof of Secular Ethics (PDF). October 2007.
• Real-Time Relationships: The Logic of Love (PDF). January 2008.
• Everyday Anarchy: The Freedom of Now (PDF). April 29, 2008.
• Practical Anarchy: The Freedom of the Future (PDF). June 25, 2008.
• How (NOT) to Achieve Freedom (PDF). September 2008.
• Against the Gods? A Concise Guide to Atheism and Agnosticism (PDF). 2010. (Foreword by Peter Boghossian)
• The Handbook of Human Ownership: A Manual for New Tax Farmers (PDF). June 13, 2011.

Fiction

• Revolutions. PublishAmerica. 2002. ISBN 978-1591294634. OCLC 671025010.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
• The God of Atheists. October 22, 2007.
• Seduction – a play adapted from Turgenev's Fathers and Sons
• After – short story and 1998 short film screenplay

Also

• Nock, Albert Jay (1935). Our Enemy, the State. Laissez Faire Books (published 2012). ISBN 978-1-62129-025-4. (Foreword by Stefan Molyneux)

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External links

• Official website – Freedomain Radio
• Columns by Molyneux on Strike The Root
• Articles by Molyneux on LewRockwell.com
• Stefan Molyneux at IMDb

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People	Bruce L. Benson Walter Block Bryan Caplan Gerard Casey Anthony de Jasay David D. Friedman Hans-Hermann Hoppe Michael Huemer Stephan Kinsella Nick Land Michael Malice Javier Milei Robert P. Murphy Wendy McElroy Lew Rockwell Murray Rothbard Joseph Salerno Jeffrey Tucker Tom Woods Curtis Yarvin
Works	The Market for Liberty (1970) For a New Liberty (1973) The Machinery of Freedom (1973) Defending the Undefendable (1976) The Ethics of Liberty (1982) To Serve and Protect (1998) Democracy: The God That Failed (2001) The Myth of the Rational Voter (2007) The Voluntary City (2002) The Problem of Political Authority (2012)
Issues	Abortion Anarchism Capital punishment Criticism Foreign affairs Immigration Inheritance Intellectual property Internal debates LGBT rights Minarchism Objectivism Political parties Politics Theories of law
Related topics	Accelerationism Agorism Paleo-libertarianism Right-libertarianism Libertarianism in the United States Left-libertarianism
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