Morality doesn't have to be boring

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]So link tree is in the description with all the spicy stuff that I can't directly link to on YouTube. [cough] [clears throat] Um I was raised Catholic. I think another good good video idea is the kind of becoming the whole thing of becoming a recovered a recovering Catholic.

[00:00:18]Somebody somebody called breaking free of the Catholic religion being a recovered Catholic. But anyway, I was raised Catholic. I went to Catholic schools till college.

[00:00:30]I remember when I was like 13ish, I remember sitting on the couch, laying on the couch, and just thinking about how many people were like having sex and smoking weed at that very moment or just getting high. And I was like disgusted.

[00:00:55]Maybe I was a little bit younger.

[00:00:57]um cuz it was kind of a process. But I I actually had that thought at one point and looking back on it like almost 30 years later, it's like really silly by, you know, when you compare it to my current how I see things.

[00:01:19]Uh another story, when I was like six years old, when I was playing T-ball, somebody got a hit. I was rounding third base and I was running to home plate.

[00:01:30]Somebody tagged me on my back with the ball. The umpire didn't see it. He called me safe. I started walking to the bench and I stopped and I turned around and I was like, he got me. He tagged me and I, you know, I told on myself.

[00:01:48]Um, I'm not telling that story to toot my own horn. Really quite the opposite. Um, whenever if there is an intelligent designer to all this, when they were programming my brain, they ticked all the boxes to make me want to always do the right thing to want to. I'm not saying I always do, but I'm saying I always want to.

[00:02:21]Now, my definition of what the right things are has evolved over the decades as as the [clears throat] first story illustrates.

[00:02:42]And uh it was kind of a as I was starting to say, it was a process to kind of break free of that mindset because you get told that certain things are wrong. Like with sex for example, it's like missionary only, no birth. From the Catholic perspective, missionary only, no birth control, uh only in the context of marriage. And I was never that extreme. I was at a certain point I was like when I was still Catholic I was okay with premarital sex but like I wanted it to be meaningful or something [snorts] and um so I guess I ended up becoming also the type of person person that questions almost everything and you know at a certain point it was like, well, why why is this why is this wrong?

[00:03:44]Why is this bad? Why are these things bad?

[00:03:48]And um and then even with like getting high smoking weed the first time first time I ever did it, I was I was scared and nervous and I felt like I was doing something wrong when I like I kind of sort of got peer pressured into doing it. But after I did, I was like, why?

[00:04:10]Like, I've been lied to. Why is this why is this even illegal? Like, why everything I heard was not true?

[00:04:19][snorts] And I think that was probably a big moment in me changing my opinions on even a lot of other things.

[00:04:31]As I said, it was a process.

[00:04:35]>> [clears throat] >> But I saw a comment in a video. I I use the word morality pretty frequently and I was kind of talking about I think I was talking about sex work and you know being having morality and having ethics and and this comment was like morality and ethics are like two different things kind of and they were saying like morality is boring and I disagree because I don't think there has to be one definition of morality.

[00:05:17]Like I know that word morality has this connotation of like it has like a religious connotation to it. I think it almost seems like a like it's a religious thing for a lot of people and it I just don't think I don't think it has to be.

[00:05:40]And like when I use the word morality, what I think of is just just treating our fellow humans the right way and not hurting people, not lying, cheating, and stealing.

[00:06:03]and [clears throat] you know not not oppressing people, being fair, stuff like that.

[00:06:16]Uh I know uh it's like sex and drugs usually for most people I think they're not considered moral or at least um sex that's on the wilder side and the way I look at it, as long as as long as nobody's being hurt, taken advantage of, lied to, as long as everything's consensual.

[00:07:11]It for me falls under the category of being morally correct.

[00:07:21]Um, and I think it would be possible to live. I mean, we could live in a world where that was accepted as truth if enough people saw it that way. because we just we define these things like as a as a society or or or maybe like different groups of people um different denominations of certain religions define these things a little bit differently. And so morality doesn't have to be boring. And I think and for me like morality and ethics are really interchangeable um it's it's been a long it's been a long interesting road. um the the evolution of kind of my view of right and wrong and uh it's kind of frustrating looking back on it because I really think going to Catholic schools kind of kind of ruin my they ruined me for a little while and set me back. And it was like when I was younger, my my brother and my sister and my uncles all went to Catholic schools. And it was like, oh, anything but a private but a public school. Anything but a public school.

[00:09:24]And so I ended up going I failed out of like a a bigger Catholic school and ended up going to this small isolated Catholic school with like 30 kids in each class. And it was like failing by the time I got there. They were only around for 2 or 3 years after I graduated and then they went out of business. But going there was even worse then cuz there was just it was just this fake um subset of the population. And like I just didn't learn anything about people because everybody was living in this isolated like conservative [clears throat] Catholic world and and it's I don't know. It's uh it's hard not to be angry at the fact that I think [clears throat] my life would have been much much [sighs] I I would have developed um a lot more people skills most likely if uh if I went to a school that had more than like 200 kids for seven grade or six grades, whatever it was.

[00:11:02]So, uh, anyway, that's kind of getting off topic. Uh, [groaning] I think I'll think I'll title this morality isn't boring. Doesn't have to be boring. I don't know. But anyway, I hope you found this, uh, conversation interesting, maybe informative.

[00:11:24]Maybe maybe entertaining. Just park right in the middle of the Anyway, that's about it.

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