4056 Muscles Cured My Insecurity? - Call In Show - April 11th, 2018

Question 1: [1:57] – “I'm 28, male and I feel as though I've got low sexual market value/social value in general because of my height. After taking anabolic drugs and noticing the difference in the way people act toward me and I wonder if I've ever been respected before I ‘took the plunge.’ I'm wondering if this is the fate that befalls men like me. I've realized there is no positive word for a small man. I earn 6 figures and live in a major city and yet before my ‘transformation’ I was never approached first, was regularly rejected and was often cheated on. Since I started taking the drugs three years ago, it’s like I'm a different person. I got a fair amount of attention at the bar, had a year-and-a-half long, rocky relationship with my high school crush who'd previously ‘friendzone'd’ me, had my first three-way, and eventually met my current girlfriend who actually seems to value me. I've often battled feelings of worthlessness. I recently began to question if it was all in my head or if people actually looked at me that way. My current girlfriend even once drunkenly admitted that if I wasn't in the shape I'm in, our first date might have gone differently. I feel stuck between a rock and a hard place here. Do I keep risking my health for a ‘life worth living’, or do I stop, shrink back into my former self and go back to simply surviving?”Question 2: [2:13:16] – “Although both our political and ethical viewpoints mostly converge, unlike you, I wholeheartedly oppose anarchism. I believe libertarianism is actually a superior proponent of the non-aggression principal. That no freedom should be unnecessarily revoked, but a very small amount of regulation is required in order to sustain an ideal laissez faire, capitalist, as free as possible society. I believe that the idea of “no government" is fundamentally flawed, because humans will inevitably default to socialism or authoritarianism if no boundaries are set and so anarchy is unsustainable. I see an ideal government not as a enforcer, but as a failsafe for times where bad ideas become too popular, or when there is no incentive to not neglect them. I believe that we need to protect ourselves from ourselves, because we have severally underestimated the proportion of the population that is unqualified, by virtue of their objective intellect (IQ), to make political, economic, social and ethical decisions. Is leaving everyone to their own accord (anarchy) really viable considering the majority of the population is utterly incapable of consulting reason over emotions, or looking more than a few weeks into the future?”Question 3: [3:24:21] – “I have been in a relationship with my boyfriend for 18 months now. I am a Christian and he is an atheist. We have been able to have really good conversations, and while we don't agree on many things, we have been at least able to dialogue about it reasonably. Now though he is often bored and disinterested in our conversations. He swears that all I ever want to discuss is work, health, and ‘babies’ and he just doesn't care. I have tried to stimulate conversations about things he is interested in, but he feels like I'm unable to contribute to the conversation enough about things like politics, economics, history, and philosophy so he claims that he just gave up trying. Now I have lost some confidence in my ability to be an interesting, intelligent conversationalist. Do you have any advice for how to improve in that area? Is there something wrong with me that I am unable to keep up with him in this regard or are we just incompatible intellectually?”Your support is essential to Freedomain Radio, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate