Honestly with Bari Weiss

Should we legalize assisted suicide? Dr. Lydia Dugdale: “Why should a physician—physicians who have committed to healing the sick, to not killing their patients—why is it that physicians should be the agents of death?” David Hoffman (@EthicsOnCall): “There are a great many doctors we know… who are willing to assess patients, and where appropriate, prescribe for patients to self-administer medication to end their suffering by ending their life.”

Today on Honestly, @RafaelaSie hosts a debate between two medical experts on the legalization of assisted suicide—one of the most complex medical, ethical, moral, and religious questions of our era. thefp.pub/44XNVm6

Should we legalize assisted suicide? Dr. Lydia Dugdale: “Why should a physician—physicians who have committed to healing the sick, to not killing their patients—why is it that physicians should be the agents of death?” David Hoffman (@EthicsOnCall): “There are a great many doctors we know… who are willing to assess patients, and where appropriate, prescribe for patients to self-administer medication to end their suffering by ending their life.”

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At our live debate in Chicago, presented in partnership with @TheFIREorg, @DLoesch and @AlanDersh debated one of our most contentious issues: Would America be safer without the Second Amendment? Watch it now: thefp.pub/48ddAIn

Attorney @AlanDersh does not want to repeal the Second Amendment, but also says it clearly makes Americans less safe: “It’s in the nature of rights that they generally make the citizens less safe, that we are prepared to have a trade-off between safety and liberty…All I’m asking for in this debate is that we base that cost-benefit analysis on actual facts…If we had fewer guns, we’d have fewer deaths.”

At our live debate in Chicago, presented in partnership with @TheFIREorg, @DLoesch and @AlanDersh debate one of our most contentious issues: Would America be safer without the Second Amendment? Watch it now: thefp.pub/48ddAIn

Former NRA spokesperson @DLoesch condemns calls for greater gun control: “It’s incredibly tyrannical to expect innocent people to forfeit their liberty in order to accommodate the indulgence of our judicial system and our society’s indulgence of criminality.” She adds: “I like being able to protect myself, because I can’t afford the private security like I have tonight to make sure that no one tries to hurt us…To expect other people to be able to pay for something like that is a form of class warfare.”

At our live debate in Chicago, presented in partnership with @TheFIREorg, @DLoesch and @AlanDersh debate one of our most contentious issues: Would America be safer without the Second Amendment? Watch it now: thefp.pub/48ddAIn

Is the primary issue in the United States the wide availability of guns—or the “constant capture and release” of violent criminals by our judicial system? @DLoesch: “Why is it that free people should be punished for what criminals do?” @AlanDersh: “A lot of factors contribute…One of the most important factors is the easy availability of guns.” @DLoesch: “You keep saying this phrase ‘easy accessibility.’ That is a made-up unicorn-and-kitten-and-sunshine phrase. That doesn’t exist.”

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Social psychologist @JonHaidt: Many adult have abdicated their responsibility of guiding children to adulthood—allowing them to fill in the gaps with “weirdoes on TikTok.” “Give your kids a lot more chances to test themselves.”

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Social psychologist @JonHaidt tells the story of a young girl who developed severe anorexia—nearly dying in the hospital—after being shown extreme dieting content on TikTok. “These are consumer products that have a very long history of hurting children. They have a huge body count. There are hundreds, say, thousands of deaths that we can definitively say it was because of this.”

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Social psychologist @JonHaidt: We’re getting young men addicted to video games, porn, gambling, investing, vaping—and then act surprised that they’re not transitioning into adulthood. It was “open season on their dopamine systems—and it was hugely lucrative.”

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“Snapchat is perfectly designed for drug dealers to reach children. It’s very safe for them. It’s not safe for the children.” @JonHaidt on the shocking number of drug-related deaths caused by Snapchat—and what justice looks like for social media platforms that have faced very little accountability.

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Liberal girls were most harmed by social media, says @JonHaidt. “It started on Tumblr in 2013.” “It’s the liberal girls who really rise first and fastest on depression…. Everyone is worse off, but being conservative seems to root you. You’re not as easily pushed into this crazy world.”

Today on Honestly, social psychologist @JonHaidt joins @BariWeiss ​​for a live conversation about technology, parenting—and how to take back childhood from iPhones and social media. thefp.pub/4r7zs0m