Insights Into Teens: Episode 137 ”The Great Debates: Controversial Topics”

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[INTRODUCTIONS]
Insights Into Teens: Episode 137 “The Great Debates: Controversial Topics”
My insightful and intelligent co-host Madison Whalen

Summary
This week we’re changing things up a little bit as we get a little controversial. Instead of focusing on a single topic of discussion to dissect and help folks with, I wanted to get your perspective on a number of controversial topics with a series of debate questions. Just a general word of caution to our audience, we will be discussing some topics that might not be appropriate for a younger audience members but we will endeavor to keep it as mature and age appropriate as we always do.

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[SEGMENT 1]

Education

Should sex education be a mandatory subject for middle and high school students?

Should energy drinks and sugary snacks be banned in schools?

Should cell phones be banned in schools?

Should students have to wear uniforms in schools?

Is peer pressure a good or bad thing on students?

Personal Decisions

Should birth control products be easily accessible to teens?

Should teen girls terminate pregnancies?

Is it ok for teens to keep secrets from their parents?

Should teens be allowed to get tattoos?

Should teens be allowed to vape if they are not allowed to smoke?

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[SEGMENT 2]

Public Policies

Should a minimum wage be guaranteed?

Should there be exceptions to the freedom of speech?

Is there institutional racism in the United States?

Is Immigration beneficial or harmful for the United States?

Should police officers be charged with excessive force in cases of brutality?

Politics

Should the US Government be involved in domestic issues of other countries?

Should there be term limits for US senators?

Has the Electoral College become obsolete?

Should the government be responsible for guaranteeing protection of privacy?

Should military service be mandatory for all citizens?

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[SEGMENT 3]

Religion

Has religion become an outdated concept?

Has religion done more harm than good to society over the centuries?

Should religious instruction and symbolism be banned in schools?

Are Muslims discriminated the most compared to other religious groups?

Can you be good without God?

Relationships

Should arguments in a relationship be avoided or encouraged?

Should men and women have different roles in a relationship?

Is it ok to have secrets in a relationship?

Should LGBTQ people be allowed to adopt children?

Should same-sex marriages be legal?

Medical

Should vaccination against COVID-19 be mandatory?

Should euthansia be legalized?

Can obesity be regarded as a disease?

Should pharmaceutical companies be banned from overcharging on life-saving medications?

Can intelligence be inherited?

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[CLOSE]
Closing thoughts shoutouts

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Madison
Insightful podcasts.

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Narrator
A podcast.

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Joseph
Network.

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Narrator
Welcome to Insights into Teens, a podcast series exploring the issues and challenges of today’s youth. Your hosts are Joseph and Madison. Wale is a father and daughter team making their way through the challenges.

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Narrator
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Joseph
Welcome to insights into teams, that was a quick transition there.

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Joseph
Hit the button.

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Madison
Oh God, how are we going to do that?

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Joseph
Oh, we’re not going to have it. That’s fine. I make mistakes. Big deal. I was moving the the board around that has all the buttons on it, and I shouldn’t do that while we’re on live action, I guess.

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Joseph
Anyway, welcome to insights into teens. This is episode 137. The Great Debates, controversial topics. I am your host, Joseph Whalen, and my insightful and intelligent co-host Madison Whalen.

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Madison
Hi, everyone.

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Joseph
How are you doing today, Maddie?

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Madison
Oh no, no. Right? How about you?

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Joseph
As long as I stop hitting the wrong buttons at the wrong time, I should be fine.

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Joseph
Yeah.

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Joseph
Um, the whole school is week anything exciting?

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Madison
Um, so far it’s been fine. I’ve had some moments where it’s like, OK, I don’t really want to work with people. There was a fight in lunch today, so I guess that’s kind of interesting.

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Joseph
That’s exciting. Was it schedule where people putting bets on it or anything?

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Madison
No. But everyone, like took out their phones to record it and like the entire.

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Joseph
Lawsuit is stopped.

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Joseph
That’s sort of what you do this in this society today, right?

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Madison
Yeah. Like even my friend who didn’t have her phone on like said she wanted to record it. And I just thought, Yeah, that’s just what society wants to do today. They just want to find disaster recorded and then publish and to become famous.

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Joseph
Blah blah.

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Joseph
Blah. Everybody wants their 15 minutes of fame. Not everybody can have a podcast like you, you know? Yeah, people have to find their own way to get famous. So this week, we’re changing things up a little bit. We’re going to get a little controversial, as a matter of fact.

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Joseph
So instead of focusing on a single topic like we usually do and dissect, we get to help folks with. I wanted to get your perspective on some what are often considered controversial topics. And really this kind of it’s a series of debate questions and we’re not going to get through the whole list.

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Joseph
We talked about that. So we have a couple of different topics of discussion categories, I should say in each segment, and we’ll pick and choose and we’ll see where the conversation goes. But a lot of these are things that I’d really like to get the perspective of a teenager on.

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Joseph
I mean, that’s really what the original purpose of this podcast was. That was to sort of get your your pulse on things. So just a general word of caution to our audience. We will be discussing a few topics that might not be appropriate for younger audience members, but we will endeavor to keep it as mature and age

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Joseph
appropriate as we usually do. Ready to get into it.

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Madison
As well as I’ll ever be.

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Joseph
All right. You’re going to be some uncomfortable questions here, I’m sure. But yeah, I’m sure we’ll navigate our way through it before we do get into and I would want to invite folks to subscribe to the podcast. You can get audio versions of this podcast listed as insights into teens.

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Joseph
VIDEO versions of the podcast can be found as insights into things, and we’re available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, TuneIn and Pretty Much Anywhere podcast these days. I would also invite folks to write in, give us your feedback, reach out to us through social media.

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Joseph
You can email us at comments and insights into things dot com. We’re on Twitter and insights underscore things on Facebook. You can find us at Facebook Dot Com Slash Insights Into Things podcast on Instagram. Word instagram.com, insights into things.

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Joseph
Or you can find links to all those and much more on our official website and insights into things dot com. Are we ready.

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Madison
If we have to be.

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Joseph
All right? I love the enthusiasm. So the first set of questions that I have centers around education. And I’m going to throw the first one out there, that’s probably going to be a very uncomfortable question for you. And that is, should sex education be a mandatory subject for middle school and high school students?

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Madison
Oh, OK. As much as I would like to not learn about that stuff, considering I don’t really feel like learning about it because it just makes me physically uncomfortable. I guess it is important to know that and I guess learn of ways to be safe in that kind of stuff and learn, you know?

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Madison
Stuff about that, so I understand the importance of it, and while I wouldn’t really like to learn about it, I guess it is important for people for high school and middle school students to know just so that one they can stay safe and to.

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Madison
They just know about it well.

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Joseph
And it’s also important to keep in mind that it’s not just about, you know, safe sex, contraception, birth control, stuff like that. It’s also about personal hygiene, reproductive health and a lot of the physiological changes that kids are going through as well that they teach you about.

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Joseph
It’s it’s stuff that I mean, in my opinion, it’s stuff that the parents should be teaching the kids, certainly. Mm-Hmm. But it’s something where I think the schools are performing a useful service because there’s a lot of kids who don’t have parents that are probably as comfortable or open minded as mommy.

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Joseph
And I having these discussions with you. Yeah. And and kids that don’t get this type of education about these very important subjects. It can wind up causing problems later on. So with that in mind, have you? What kind of education have they had on these topics with you in your school.

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Madison
Like for the stuff I’ve had now? I know that like in sixth grade, like they kind of show you around the time you having puberty, they show you various puberty videos and you know, they educate us on what we’re experiencing, hormones and just physical changes and stuff like that.

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Madison
And I know they have the seniors taking up sex ed course in my high school.

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Joseph
OK. And you know, that kind of makes sense that you’re covering things along those lines at the time where it’s age appropriate. But they’re difficult topics. You know, they’re very it’s a very personal time the kids go through when they’re going through these changes, and it’s a very confusing time.

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Joseph
And I think part of the resistance that kids have is that’s really not the kind of audience that you want to be sharing. That kind of information is that whether that be a fair assessment?

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Madison
Yeah, pretty much. I know that most people feel very uncomfortable having to watch those videos and learning about that kind of stuff.

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Joseph
Yeah, I mean, there’s probably a more appropriate or more comfortable environment to do that in. But again, that’s where it comes down to the parents and not all parents at the time to do it. Not all parents. Are comfortable doing it, and some kids, I have to assume some kids wouldn’t be comfortable getting that kind of information

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Joseph
from their parents, either. Hmm. How did Mommy and daddy handle that with you? Have we have we done a decent job of that for you?

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Joseph
I mean.

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Madison
I technically started asking about it due to the videos that they showed us in school. But when the stuff actually happened, you definitely made sure to inform me about it, you know, specifically, mommy, because, you know, she went through the same thing I did.

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Joseph
Yeah, I’m I mean, there’s certain things that I can I can research and talk about. But having firsthand knowledge of someone who has the experience, there’s really no substitute for that.

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Joseph
Yeah.

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Joseph
That’s certainly the case here. So let’s talk about something a little less uncomfortable. And that is, should energy drinks and sugary snacks be banned from schools? And when I see banned from schools, I’m not talking about kids bringing them in.

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Joseph
I’m talking about the schools selling those types of things and basically profiting on unhealthy habits, introducing unhealthy habits to kids. What are your thoughts on that?

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Joseph
Well.

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Madison
I mean. Giving unhealthy habits to kids is probably something that schools shouldn’t be doing. But at the same time, I don’t want my kids to like like it’s OK to have like a snack every once in a while.

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Madison
And I guess promoting this might not always help that. So I suppose I can understand both sides of the argument saying like they shouldn’t do it because they shouldn’t be profiting. Like you said, they shouldn’t be profiting off of an elderly habit for kids.

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Madison
And then I can see like, well, the kids would really prefer to have snacks because their parents don’t really pack them anything and like. If the schools didn’t necessarily profit off of it and it wasn’t like in that kind of way, I wouldn’t really be like.

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Madison
I guess what I’m saying is just maybe sell healthier snacks because I’m not opposed to schools like selling kids food, just maybe it could be a way to promote healthier eating habits like get food that’s going to be healthy for kids, but that they’ll still enjoy and want to get.

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Joseph
And that makes perfect sense. one of the complaints I think I have at work, we have vending machines in our cafeteria at work. And we have one at the snack machine and one that’s a drink machine with a drink machine doesn’t even have water in it, so you can’t get bottled water.

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Joseph
So you have to drink a sugary type of drink or a diet drink if you get anything out of it. And this snack machine itself has literally no healthy snacks in it. And. You know, being diabetic, I have to be careful how much carb intake I have and how much sugar intake I have.

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Joseph
And there’s really not a lot of choices for me there. I don’t know if kids in school are facing these same types of things. But are you like when you? Consume something at school. Are you concerned about the nutritional value of it, or is that something that’s completely out of consideration for you?

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Madison
I mean, like, I don’t really get anything from the school, but I do know the school does have its vending machines and stuff at lunch that you can get. And like, I can definitely understand that, like a lot of this, doesn’t seem like the most healthy thing ever and like.

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Madison
I mean, the thing is, I know that everyone complains about the lunches that the school makes and a lot of the times I’m guessing like they just want some actual food, so they get the snacks. And I guess the thing is, I just think it would be better if they if, like there was something healthy their kids

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Madison
would actually like to eat.

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Joseph
OK. I think having that desire to have the food there is important. Otherwise, nobody’s going to consume it. But I think it is important that it’s something that’s fairly healthy for the kids.

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Joseph
Yeah.

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Joseph
So the next categories are to kind of move on from the education side of things. The next category is personal decisions. And I think this first one being a young lady is a very important one to someone like you.

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Joseph
And that is, should birth control products be easily accessible to teens?

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Madison
So another birth control is basically like. It basically helps to stop like women getting pregnant.

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Joseph
Exactly, yes.

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Madison
And. To be fair, considering how some teens do make some bad decisions, I guess it would be good to make it accessible to them because I mean, they could make a really. They could make. They can end up making a decision that would result in them getting pregnant.

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Madison
And if they had bought birth control, it would probably help prevent that and it would help them to keep safe if they were going to live that risky lifestyle.

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Joseph
So with that in mind, who do the who should be responsible for providing them? Is that something like, you know, there’s various forms of of birth control, there’s prescription birth control pills, there’s prophylactics that you can buy over the counter.

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Joseph
Is that something that should be made available in schools? Or is that something that you should be getting at a pharmacy? Is that something that a doctor should be prescribing? Where where should the sources of that be?

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Madison
I definitely don’t think schools should be giving it because one I don’t think they should have the right to do that and to. I think it’s just up to the teen and their doctor and the family because like certain birth controls might be harmful for others.

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Madison
And you know, like, I would definitely think that it would be better if like. It was more of a personal thing rather than a school thing to do. So like your personal doctor, your parents like. I definitely don’t think it should be given out by the school.

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Joseph
Is it something assuming it’s done by a medical professional? Is that something where the parents should be involved in that? Or is that something where a teenager should be able to make an appointment with their doctor and handle that type of transaction in the privacy of the doctor’s office without her parents knowing?

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Joseph
I mean.

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Madison
I guess it kind of depends on the instance like. I think in some capacity, maybe you might want to let your parents know, but if you do feel as though you need the privacy, then yes, get the privacy.

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Madison
But if you feel comfortable enough letting your parents know and you know and they’re comfortable allowing you, then yeah, you can let them know. But like ultimately, I do think it’s the teens decision since it’s their body.

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Joseph
OK, fair enough. So going along that same mindset, the next question I have here is, you know, you’ve already pointed out the fact that some teens make bad decisions and it’s not just teens. Everyone makes bad decisions.

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Joseph
Yeah.

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Joseph
But some teens make bad decisions and wind up in a situation where they may be expecting. So should teen girls, should it be legal for teen girls to terminate pregnancies?

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Madison
Honestly. Another topic is very is definitely one of the more controversial ones, and.

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Joseph
That’s why I made this.

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Madison
List. Yes. And to be fair. Yeah, I think it should. Like, if there are good ways to if there are ways that will help them and do it in a manner where they won’t get hurt with the teen themselves won’t get hurt and we’ll still be OK afterwards.

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Madison
And yeah, I’d say legalize it because there are teen and a lot of instances they’re not exactly able to take care of a child. And the thing is, if you think about it in a slightly a different perspective, the the kid could end up growing in a household where the teen isn’t able to even take care of

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Madison
the kid and will end up having to give them up for adoption or just. And that or the kid would just live in a neglect of household or a household where they’re not going to be able to get a proper life and are more than likely just going to be miserable and.

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Madison
And while, yes, it’s bad, it might be bad to get rid of the child when it didn’t have a chance to live and a lot of cases you don’t really you got to think of it in terms of how would it affect both the mother and the child?

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Madison
The mother more than likely will be under a lot of stress, considering, yes, they’re a teenager. And yes, they did this and thus they have to live with it. But like who? Not everyone is made up. Not every woman is made to be a mother.

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Madison
That’s the best answer I can come up with. Basically, they might not be able to take care of a child for one reason or another, or they might not even want to have a child for one reason or another.

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Madison
And having that responsibility, not everyone can handle that, especially when they’re 18. And it’s just. It would just be better. For the teen, if the child, if they didn’t have the child, it’d be better, they’d have a better life and would still be able to live a good life without having the child and.

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Madison
They could probably, and it would probably be better. So that that nonexistent shot that child wouldn’t have to go through the hardships that would have to come with being a teen mother. But it’s ultimately up to the mother’s decision.

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Joseph
And certainly having a child is a huge impact, huge change on one’s life and a huge responsibility. And you’re right, teens probably aren’t prepared for the responsibility that comes with it. They certainly aren’t equipped to provide for the child.

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Joseph
So no argument there. My follow up question that as you mentioned, the possibility of having to give the child up for adoption. And you mentioned that almost as a as a detriment, as a downfall or, you know, an alternative and an undesirable alternative.

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Joseph
Do you think that that adoption is a viable option if there’s an unwanted pregnancy involved?

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Madison
I mean, yeah, I never really meant that as a bad thing. It’s just. It’s just, yeah, if you can’t raise a child. Yes, putting them up for adoption might be a different alternative that you could take. It’s just.

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Madison
A lot of people don’t really want to have to resort to that, I know, and. Like. Like, I don’t. If you want to if you decide to give your child up to adoption as opposed to terminating your pregnancy, that’s fine.

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Madison
The child could probably still find a family and live a good life. So I guess that could also be an alternative if you want to go with that route.

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Joseph
And you know, it’s not a black and white situation here, either, because there are certainly health considerations that are at play where, you know, having a child can can pose a health risk to the mother and the child.

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Joseph
When you go, go to full term. So that’s certainly a situation there where if there is a health risk to the mother. Adoption might not be a viable option.

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Joseph
Yeah.

00:21:05:18 – 00:21:34:00
Joseph
So but you’re right, it’s a very personal choice, and it’s it’s something that’s. A very difficult topic to kind of nail down with the right answer is because it’s very situational. So good answers, though. We’re going to take a quick break and we’re going to come back and talk about public policies and another controversial category politics.

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00:22:46:25 – 00:23:03:14
Joseph
Welcome back to insights into teens today, we are debating some of the more controversial topics in society. And we’re going to talk about public policies. So the first question I have here is one it’s in the news constantly.

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Joseph
Should there be a minimum wage now, right now that everyone’s talking about the minimum wage being raised to $15 an hour? Should there even be a minimum wage that’s enforced by the government on private business owners? That’s the question to you.

00:23:21:14 – 00:23:30:21
Madison
OK, so. So minimum wage is basically like the minimum amount Adobe can basically pay someone.

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Joseph
That’s correct.

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Madison
So. I mean. I guess in a way. It shouldn’t entirely be all determined by the government, and it should also be the actual owner of a certain occupation that should allow like what their minimum wage should be. But at the same time, you don’t want like a corrupt.

00:24:01:28 – 00:24:28:05
Madison
What? A corrupt CEO of a company ripping off their work employees, but I definitely don’t think the government in a way should enforce their own minimum wage and that maybe it should also be more or less part of a decision between either between just the people who run the company.

00:24:28:26 – 00:24:46:11
Joseph
So there’s I guess, it’s kind of a more complex situation because a lot of states have minimum wages and then the federal government has a minimum wage and the federal government, typically their federal government’s minimum wage is usually lower than the states.

00:24:47:02 – 00:25:01:29
Joseph
So there’s a big push nationally now to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, which. A lot of states like the federal minimum wage, I think, was at seven, 735 or something, and most states are $7, $8 an hour or something like that.

00:25:01:29 – 00:25:08:05
Joseph
So a raise to $15 an hour is a significant raise.

00:25:08:12 – 00:25:08:21
Joseph
Mm-Hmm.

00:25:08:28 – 00:25:25:12
Joseph
Which? Would have an impact on the businesses that have to now pay that. Because they can’t they’re not going to double the rates of of all the products and services that they provide because nobody will use their services at that point in time.

00:25:25:15 – 00:25:25:27
Joseph
Mm-Hmm.

00:25:26:25 – 00:25:42:05
Joseph
But at the same time, the cost of living continues to go up. So $15 an hour in most areas of the country is still below what’s considered the poverty line. So the poverty line being the absolute minimum you need in order to put a roof over your head, put food on the table and so forth.

00:25:43:07 – 00:25:55:13
Joseph
So a $15 an hour is below that help, how much of an impact do you think $7 an hour would have on on people that are making that now and trying to make a living and support a family.

00:25:56:05 – 00:26:20:04
Madison
Considering the fact that having an even higher minimum wage isn’t entirely enough. It’s probably even worse with only $7 like they might not be making enough to even get certain necessities like they might not have enough to. Have a good shelter or get good food or have correct plumbing.

00:26:20:10 – 00:26:27:22
Joseph
Right, right, and that’s one of the big considerations that that companies face now is that you have employees.

00:26:28:09 – 00:26:29:00
Joseph
Who.

00:26:29:17 – 00:26:45:09
Joseph
Can’t afford to work. In fact, during COVID, when they had a bonus on on the unemployment that was paid for by the government, it was cheaper for people to quit their jobs and collect unemployment than it was to continue working.

00:26:45:09 – 00:27:05:21
Joseph
There would make more money on unemployment in many cases. So if the federal government mandates $15 an hour, what recourse or what do you think the companies that have to support that are going to do what kind of impact is that going to have on them and ultimately all the consumers?

00:27:06:09 – 00:27:08:04
Madison
They’re probably going to be charging more.

00:27:08:13 – 00:27:08:26
Joseph
Right?

00:27:09:03 – 00:27:20:09
Madison
And thus the cons and thus the amount people have to pay to get their products is going to increase and thus more than likely inflation is going to get higher.

00:27:20:14 – 00:27:36:27
Joseph
Right. And it’s it’s pretty bad right now. one of the other negative side effects is if I’ve got five employees, I’m paying $7 an hour or two or $8 an hour or two. And tomorrow the federal government passes a law that tells me I have to pay $15 an hour.

00:27:37:17 – 00:27:54:29
Joseph
Well, I can’t afford to keep those five employees anymore. So two or three of those people are probably going to lose their jobs, and the guys that are left over are going to go to work twice as hard or the services or products that I put out are going to have to diminish in quality in order to

00:27:54:29 – 00:28:20:21
Joseph
compensate for. So typically, the cost of of the minimum wage is usually something that’s increased gradually over time. So the effects of it on businesses and in society are not that dramatic. But there’s this major push now that is really a huge jump that a lot of people are very worried about.

00:28:21:07 – 00:28:29:09
Joseph
Do you think that jump in the minimum wage is good or is that like that $15 an hour? Or is that something that we should work towards over a few years?

00:28:29:15 – 00:28:39:25
Madison
Probably work towards over a few years because just having that jump is going to really impact the economy and more than likely going to do so and mostly negative ways.

00:28:40:05 – 00:28:52:15
Joseph
Yeah. And I agree, and I think a lot of other people kind of feel that way, too. So the next question that we have on public policies is should there be exceptions to freedom of speech?

00:28:56:23 – 00:29:21:29
Madison
I mean, I feel as though if you’re not really intentionally trying to hurt anyone, I feel it’s fine. But. I guess in certain instances, yeah, you. It like freedom of speech should in a way be restricted. Did. Or just there are exceptions to it.

00:29:22:10 – 00:29:32:27
Joseph
Well, and there are restrictions now. You know, obviously you can’t stand up in the example everyone always gives you. You can’t stand up in a crowded movie theater and shout fire because you’re a public menace.

00:29:33:02 – 00:29:38:18
Joseph
Yeah, it gets a little bit more confusing.

00:29:38:28 – 00:29:44:24
Joseph
A little bit more foggy when you start talking about some political speech.

00:29:44:27 – 00:29:45:25
Joseph
Yeah, right?

00:29:45:25 – 00:30:06:21
Joseph
So for instance, you have one whole segment of the population who is convinced that the the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump, and they’re going out there and making all kinds of allegations and statements and stuff like that without providing any proof of it.

00:30:06:26 – 00:30:20:06
Joseph
And people are they’re getting banned. A lot of people are getting banned on social media. Is that considered dangerous? Like, is that something that would be restricted, like shouting fire in a theater?

00:30:21:16 – 00:30:30:22
Madison
I mean, especially if it leads to some kind of violence or outrage. Yeah, in a way.

00:30:31:14 – 00:31:01:22
Joseph
OK, so let me ask you something else. Let’s go back. Before the country technically was the country and you had Britain, that was. A pressing will say the colonies and you had colonists who were trying to express that discontent by the acts of vandalism, really, that it was of the Boston Tea Party, were they they were there

00:31:01:22 – 00:31:23:20
Joseph
protesting the tax on tea and the monopoly that they were giving to a company? And they tossed a lot of value of tea into the harbor in Boston. Is that freedom of speech? Is that political speech? Is that something that would have, should have been should have been restricted under the Constitution?

00:31:23:20 – 00:31:25:06
Joseph
How would you have ruled on that one?

00:31:27:29 – 00:31:28:23
Joseph
Hmm.

00:31:29:27 – 00:31:50:23
Madison
I kind of figured you were going to bring up something like this when we mention this. I mean. I guess in certain instances, freedom of speech can definitely be subjective, especially in when you when compared to a lot of cases like.

00:31:53:06 – 00:32:14:01
Madison
Throwing the tea away in the harbor was a way to get America to stop working for. Well, to stop Britain from being corrupt, and it was an act of defiance since they had been basically taxed unfairly.

00:32:15:22 – 00:32:17:09
Joseph
OK, so that should be allowed.

00:32:18:01 – 00:32:18:15
Joseph
Well.

00:32:19:28 – 00:32:21:04
Madison
I mean, probably not now.

00:32:22:05 – 00:32:28:15
Joseph
OK. So. It’s an exception, but it’s an exception with a time limit on it.

00:32:29:19 – 00:32:38:00
Madison
It’s just like. I guess if it’s. Hmm. Yes, definitely.

00:32:38:15 – 00:32:44:04
Joseph
Yeah, that’s that’s what I’m saying, so sometimes it’s not, it’s not as black and white as you think it is.

00:32:44:05 – 00:32:44:17
Joseph
Yeah.

00:32:44:26 – 00:33:06:23
Joseph
And another great example is Martin Luther King’s march on Washington, where they had this large crowd of people that were peacefully demonstrating. And, you know, Martin Luther King gives a speech up there and riles up the crowd. Well, thankfully, no violence happened there.

00:33:07:22 – 00:33:24:28
Joseph
But the same type of thing could have been attributed to Donald Trump on January six, where Donald Trump held a rally because he felt he was unjustly removed from office. He rounds his people up and they go and they stormed the Capitol.

00:33:26:16 – 00:33:41:25
Joseph
Was the rally freedom of speech or was that OK? Was the march on the capital? OK. What part of that was was freedom of speech and what part of that broke the law and the freedom of speech needs to be curtailed?

00:33:42:05 – 00:33:57:11
Joseph
Because a lot of people that showed up at that march on the Capitol will tell you that they were just exercising their free speech and showing that they’re they’re just content for the government and they would have been perfectly right in that interpretation of it.

00:33:58:22 – 00:34:08:08
Joseph
So where where do we draw that line? Is there a fine line? Is there a place where we draw that line and say, yes, it is freedom of speech and you can do it? And no, it’s not.

00:34:08:29 – 00:34:20:25
Madison
Yes, it’s one. It’s kind of attacking the country in a way like when it goes against the country, when violence breaks out and when it’s just unjustly not OK.

00:34:20:29 – 00:34:38:29
Joseph
So when you break the law, basically it stops being freedom of speech all by that. That makes sense. That makes perfect sense. So we’ve kind of danced around the subject of politics, let’s dove right into it this time and ask a couple of political questions here.

00:34:39:18 – 00:34:44:14
Joseph
one of these is one of my favorite questions that I have very strong feelings, but boy, it’s the other one first.

00:34:44:15 – 00:34:45:27
Madison
I know, I know that for.

00:34:46:10 – 00:34:58:05
Joseph
Sure, the U.S. government and this is very timely because we’re about to get involved. It looks like. So should the U.S. government be involved in domestic issues of other countries?

00:35:00:23 – 00:35:06:20
Madison
I mean. I can see us supporting other countries and their disputes.

00:35:07:03 – 00:35:07:18
Joseph
OK.

00:35:10:07 – 00:35:19:20
Madison
So I would definitely say that trying to help out the help out other countries. Would be OK. Are.

00:35:22:03 – 00:35:38:26
Joseph
All right, so I have a couple of quick scenarios here. Okay, so Tanya, you may have heard in the news, Tom, you just had a major catastrophe than a volcanic eruption there. And they’re having difficulty feeding their people and giving clean water and stuff like that.

00:35:39:10 – 00:35:50:15
Joseph
So there’s this massive international effort to get food and supplies to them. Is that an OK way of of getting involved in domestic issues of other countries?

00:35:50:19 – 00:35:54:05
Madison
Yeah, trying to provide supplies for those that need it.

00:35:54:09 – 00:36:16:08
Joseph
OK, I’ll buy that. I won’t argue with that. So on the other side of the world, you have Russia massing troops on the border with Ukraine, and it looks like it’s a they’re about to invade. And you have the United States that are basically, you know, saber rattling and moving troops into Eastern Europe and positioning them in

00:36:16:09 – 00:36:34:06
Joseph
case there is an invasion and they’re supporting their role in putting them in their allied countries. They haven’t engaged in any conflict yet, but it’s clear that we’re coming to a head here and something’s going to happen. Is that level of domestic involvement in other countries acceptable?

00:36:35:17 – 00:36:36:03
Joseph
Hmm.

00:36:38:18 – 00:37:11:23
Madison
I mean. I guess the thing is that I get I mean, it’s important to, I guess, support the allies, but. At the same, I mean. I would think it would be. I would think that we should more or less be preventing the war instead of preparing for it to happen like, yes, if we can’t find any way

00:37:11:23 – 00:37:18:04
Madison
to prevent the war. Sure, prepare for it. But. Maybe look for a way of preventing the war first.

00:37:18:12 – 00:37:40:13
Joseph
Okay, so preventative actions, I’ll buy that one more scenario for you. A country is taken over by their military, so it’s a legally elected government that’s overthrown by the military in a coup. And that legally elected government kind of had a.

00:37:41:26 – 00:37:56:11
Joseph
Mixed bag of of results when it came to human rights, they abuse some of the people and the guy was a bit dictatorial, so a military comes in and takes over their own military, takes over, kicks that guy out of power.

00:37:57:26 – 00:38:16:18
Joseph
Should the U.S. get involved there and support one or the other? Should it prevent the legally elected one from being kicked out? Should it support the army, the military that’s coming in because they’re going to be less tyrannical to their people?

00:38:17:03 – 00:38:19:14
Joseph
How should that sort of thing be handled?

00:38:21:24 – 00:38:22:11
Joseph
Well.

00:38:25:09 – 00:38:27:15
Madison
I guess the thing is.

00:38:32:24 – 00:38:36:10
Joseph
Tough questions. Yeah. Hmm.

00:38:41:22 – 00:38:49:24
Madison
I mean, like. Mm hmm. I don’t really know if the U.S. should entirely be involved in that in any way.

00:38:50:05 – 00:39:04:04
Joseph
And that’s where a lot of people fall down. That’s the sign that they fall on is kind of an isolationist mentality. You know, we shouldn’t be involved, but then they say, Well, you shouldn’t have been involved in targeting.

00:39:04:04 – 00:39:17:20
Joseph
You shouldn’t have been involved in the Ukraine. We shouldn’t be involved in other people’s domestic issues. You need to take care of yours at home. So that’s sort of where that topic expands and gets a little bit more fine grain.

00:39:18:23 – 00:39:21:10
Joseph
Oh, it’s tough to find the right answer to this.

00:39:21:14 – 00:39:21:23
Joseph
Yeah.

00:39:22:12 – 00:39:47:02
Joseph
So the last one in politics I wanted to talk about is should there be term limits for U.S. senators? So just to set the scene here, the only office federal office that has term limits is the president, and he only wound up getting term limits after Franklin Roosevelt was elected to a fourth term and Congress put term

00:39:47:02 – 00:40:02:11
Joseph
limits on the president. None of the congressmen, none of the senators. Members of House of Representatives or anything. None of them have term limits. Should they have term limits, should all politicians have term limits?

00:40:02:19 – 00:40:07:14
Madison
Probably, yeah. That way, you don’t just have the same people over and over again.

00:40:07:25 – 00:40:08:28
Joseph
What’s bad about that?

00:40:10:24 – 00:40:24:19
Madison
I guess if you have a pretty corrupt person, that’s pretty bad because you can constantly have them in office. And unless and like if a lot of people support them, well, it’s not really fair to the others.

00:40:25:23 – 00:40:43:02
Joseph
OK, I’ll buy that. I also, you know, my take on it is the Office of President United States, which is the highest elected office in this country, should be the standard. It should be it should be setting the rules, it shouldn’t be the exception to the rules.

00:40:43:07 – 00:40:43:17
Madison
Mm-Hmm.

00:40:44:05 – 00:40:49:28
Joseph
And when that’s the only one, that’s an exception to the rule, it’s a bit hypocritical on the part of our Congress.

00:40:50:04 – 00:40:50:15
Joseph
Yeah.

00:40:51:11 – 00:41:09:18
Joseph
It’s kind of disappointing that you have people and these politicians, they pat themselves on the back when they’ve been in the same office for 30 years, 40 years. They get accolades for that. And when the country was founded, it was never founded with the premise of career politicians.

00:41:10:13 – 00:41:27:09
Joseph
You know, the founding fathers, you know, the principle that they found in this country was citizen citizens running the country. You know, the average citizen coming in and doing their time, you know, doing what’s right for the country and then moving on and going back to civilian life.

00:41:27:11 – 00:41:46:00
Joseph
And that’s exactly the example that George Washington set. George Washington came in, did two terms as president and one of the retiring go back to Virginia. And the politicians that we have nowadays are career politicians, the first thing a politician wants to do when they get in office is get reelected.

00:41:46:00 – 00:41:47:17
Joseph
That’s a first thing you’re worried about.

00:41:47:25 – 00:41:48:03
Joseph
Hmm.

00:41:48:17 – 00:42:10:25
Joseph
And as a result, you don’t have politicians that are really out for the common good. Yeah, and that’s unfortunate. Anyway, so we’re going to take a quick break here. We’re going to come back and we have three new cat, three different categories only, which I think we’re going to pull questions from too, and I’ll decide which two

00:42:10:25 – 00:42:13:03
Joseph
when we come back from the break. So we’ll be right back.

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00:43:23:16 – 00:43:40:11
Joseph
Welcome back to insights into teens. Today, we’re talking some controversial debate topics, and there’s two topics that people tend to avoid in places like work and in funny areas and stuff like that because they don’t want the conflict.

00:43:40:26 – 00:43:57:02
Joseph
We’ve talked about one of already that was politics in our last segment. The last one is religion. We’re going to talk about that now. So one question leadoff question here has religion become outdated in our society?

00:43:58:20 – 00:43:59:27
Joseph
I’m.

00:44:02:07 – 00:44:27:02
Madison
I don’t entirely think so, like I definitely think it’s important to believe in things, and I definitely think that. Some people. Sometimes need a higher power to build a higher power or powers or whatever you believe in. I feel people might some people might need that and.

00:44:28:12 – 00:44:35:26
Madison
Well, yes, some of the concepts don’t entirely seem the most logical in our somewhat logical society.

00:44:36:26 – 00:44:42:25
Joseph
I mean, the Earth isn’t the center of the universe anyway.

00:44:44:09 – 00:44:56:28
Madison
I still think it’s important for some people to have those beliefs and like and philosophies so that maybe they can live better lives or that they just have something to believe in.

00:44:57:17 – 00:45:04:06
Joseph
Okay. Are you a particularly religious individual yourself?

00:45:05:01 – 00:45:26:15
Madison
I’d probably say not. I’m Jewish and I celebrate Jewish holidays, but neither me right now. Neither me nor mommy see, well, I’m not really in and I’ve never really been to. Temple, right, I’ve I don’t know any Hebrew, really.

00:45:26:25 – 00:45:30:20
Joseph
So does religion have a significant impact on your life?

00:45:32:14 – 00:45:35:23
Madison
Not entirely. OK, not really.

00:45:36:12 – 00:45:44:13
Joseph
But you kind of leave it out there that it could be something important for other people and it could have a meaningful part in their lives.

00:45:44:18 – 00:45:44:29
Joseph
Yeah.

00:45:45:14 – 00:45:56:25
Joseph
OK, I’ll buy that. My take on it is kind of related to the next question. And for this one, I want you to put your history hat on because we’re going to we don’t want to just think about society today.

00:45:56:26 – 00:46:07:26
Joseph
We want to think about. Historically, how it has been religion, has religion done more harm than good to society over the centuries?

00:46:09:14 – 00:46:32:16
Madison
Yeah, that’s. So I’ve been doing so in history class, I’ve learned a lot about lots of religious conflicts. The Crusades were religious conflict conflicts. I know that there were plenty of times where there’s been genocide due to religion.

00:46:34:26 – 00:46:54:25
Madison
And well, yes, religion does bring out a lot of good and people and it has good philosophies. In a lot of ways, religion has really come in conflict like different religions have come in conflict with each other, and it’s led to really bad stuff.

00:46:55:10 – 00:47:21:24
Joseph
Yeah, I mean, you think of the Middle East, you know, it’s being called the Holy Land. That’s for the merging of three of the western world’s major religions. There has been constant conflict. There’s been millions of people that have died on the soil of the Middle East from the Crusades all through into the conflicts recently with the

00:47:21:24 – 00:47:40:28
Joseph
Israelis and Palestinians. People are dying constantly in the name of religion. You’ve had entire nations, you know, Iran and Iraq went to war with each other. They were both. Muslim nations of different sects that went to war each other on religious grounds.

00:47:42:01 – 00:47:58:07
Joseph
I mean, it’s difficult for me to look at all of the negative things that have come from religion, and that’s not even that’s literally just talking the major religions, not it’s not even talking about the cults, the cult religions that we’ve seen.

00:47:58:07 – 00:48:16:01
Joseph
The Jim Jones is out there, the David Koresh is out there. That brainwash people and take over their lives. Just the amount of suffering. Yes, Grant, there the church is out there, do charitable work and they help people.

00:48:16:08 – 00:48:43:19
Joseph
And you know, they promote peace. But there’s so much suffering that goes along with religion. And even if you look fairly modern times and you don’t even have to look at the violence you can look at. The controversy with the Catholic Church and the child molestations have come out of that and the damage that’s done.

00:48:44:14 – 00:49:07:11
Joseph
So for me, it’s very difficult to look at this and think that religion has done more good than it has harm. Yeah, because the harm that it’s done has been horrific. You know, you talk about the the Crusades when I mean, Christians marched into Jerusalem and took it in the first crusade.

00:49:08:01 – 00:49:29:10
Joseph
They slaughtered everyone in there. They slaughtered Muslim. They slaughtered Jews. They slaughtered Christians that were in the city. They slaughtered so many people. The one quote from one of the historians was that the the roads, the streets of Jerusalem ran, you know, red with blood.

00:49:29:10 – 00:49:49:01
Joseph
You know, it was the blood was ankle deep. And that was all in the name of religion. It’s hard to make up for that. It’s hard to patch stuff like that up, you know? Yeah. So that’s that’s kind of my $0.02 on it, and I think you and I are kind of in agreement there that the ban

00:49:49:01 – 00:49:52:26
Joseph
was really bad. Yeah, the the good kind of just sort of.

00:49:53:12 – 00:49:54:05
Joseph
You know, there.

00:49:54:08 – 00:49:57:24
Joseph
Yeah, it’s just sort of nipping away at it a little bit, but not.

00:49:57:24 – 00:49:58:26
Joseph
Enough. Yeah.

00:50:00:06 – 00:50:10:22
Joseph
All right. The last two topics we have, I have relationships and I have medical. Which one do you want to do?

00:50:11:20 – 00:50:14:05
Madison
You can chip away at relationships.

00:50:14:12 – 00:50:18:19
Joseph
All right. So that’s a pretty safe one to end on.

00:50:18:20 – 00:50:20:13
Madison
Yeah, that’s kind of what I figured.

00:50:20:15 – 00:50:26:10
Joseph
There you go. So should arguments in a relationship be avoided or encouraged?

00:50:27:01 – 00:50:49:09
Madison
Honestly, if they’re not inherently harmful, like you and I sometimes have short pickering’s about completely random things, and it’s the it’s kind of funny. I took my health benchmark today, and one of the questions was what is the positive impact from conflict?

00:50:49:26 – 00:51:17:09
Madison
And the answer out of everything was stronger relationships that made me think. Conflict can actually strengthen your relationships with people, and I definitely think that. I personally feel that relationships can give you a different perspective on various topics and conflict with them can kind of bring that out.

00:51:17:23 – 00:51:37:03
Madison
And while yes, I definitely don’t think that any kind of violent conflicts should be allowed in relationships. Small debates kind of like what we are having or just arguments about small arguments about things can actually help to strengthen relationships.

00:51:37:17 – 00:51:46:09
Madison
And while certain conflicts, yes, definitely should be avoided, I definitely think that having smaller arguments can give you a different perspective and even make you a better person.

00:51:46:19 – 00:52:01:20
Joseph
And I think I agree with you 100%. I think arguments allow you to explore different aspects of the relationship. They can be intellectually stimulating. They can help you explore the personality of the people that you’re having that argument with.

00:52:02:08 – 00:52:16:16
Joseph
And as long as it doesn’t fall into the realm of domestic violence or, you know, mental abuse or anything like that, having having arguments, I think is a healthy thing that helps build relationships. Nobody wants to be with someone they agree with all the time.

00:52:16:16 – 00:52:16:28
Joseph
That’s just.

00:52:16:28 – 00:52:17:26
Joseph
Boring. Yeah.

00:52:18:24 – 00:52:30:08
Joseph
So all right, I’m with you there. I think we’re on the same page. And the last question that we’re going to leave you with here is should men and women have different roles in a relationship?

00:52:31:03 – 00:52:48:02
Madison
Honestly, I don’t really think they need to. I think both can be proven to have. Both have been proven to have both roles. Women can be the caregivers, but can also be the ones going out and getting the money.

00:52:48:13 – 00:53:13:10
Madison
Men can also be caregivers while also going out and getting money. Well, yes, some of them. Well, yes, one might be better at doing one part than the other. I definitely think that both can do both roles in a relationship and not just with a married relationship, just having a relationship in general.

00:53:13:11 – 00:53:30:05
Madison
Both can more than likely do both parts. And I definitely don’t think that either. Like, well, yes, there are. Like I said before, there are things that one might be better at than the other, but I think both can service both roles.

00:53:31:00 – 00:53:45:22
Joseph
I think for the most part, I agree with you there. I think there are certainly there are areas that one gender excels at better than than another, but that doesn’t necessarily preclude.

00:53:46:11 – 00:53:47:00
Joseph
The.

00:53:47:23 – 00:54:13:13
Joseph
Lesser proficient gender from taking on those roles as well. There’s a compromise. You know, you have to understand that that everyone has to be take on their role, has to do their part. And, you know, mommy’s much better at balancing the budget and doing the bills and and the the finely tuned nature associated with the organizational side

00:54:13:13 – 00:54:29:19
Joseph
of things. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t take part in that and in some form as well when she lets me, you know what? I should tell people what I have to sign and I sign it. You know, I’m trying to do my part and I know that, you know, the tech support side of things fall

00:54:29:19 – 00:54:35:08
Joseph
to me. So it’s like, you know, when I’m not here, mommy can still fix stuff. She’s great at putting stuff together. You know.

00:54:35:08 – 00:54:36:01
Joseph
That? Yeah.

00:54:36:24 – 00:54:59:03
Joseph
Much more patient with furniture than I am. But yeah, I mean, both sides can do and should do. You know, you don’t want, you don’t want 11 person in the relationship feeling as though they’re being burdened by having to do an unfair amount of maintenance on the household or the relationship or whatever.

00:54:59:26 – 00:55:13:06
Joseph
So I agree. You know, I think I think men and women can have different roles. They can’t have the same role, you know, to the society that we live in today is very different than it was in the 1950s.

00:55:13:06 – 00:55:32:18
Joseph
You know, I came from a family, you know, a very traditional nuclear family where the the the mother was the the the homemaker, the father went to work. And you know, those two sides never mingled in and there was resentment, you know, from from both sides.

00:55:32:18 – 00:55:45:27
Joseph
You know, my father, I think, resented my mother because all of my brothers and I were so much closer to her because we were exposed to her all the time. And my mother resented the fact that my father had a lot more freedom than she had.

00:55:45:27 – 00:56:00:17
Joseph
You know, my father would come home from work and he was done. At that point in time, he didn’t have to take care of the kids. He’d have to cook. He needed to clean. And you know, my mother had a 24 hour job, you know, except for when she was sleep and she was taking care of the

00:56:00:17 – 00:56:17:28
Joseph
house. And my father never really appreciated that. Nowadays, it’s difficult. To do that when you have low income families and you know, the. one member of the family is maybe in a professional line of work, and it’s very different today.

00:56:18:13 – 00:56:21:19
Joseph
So you kind of have to adapt to so I totally agree with you.

00:56:21:23 – 00:56:22:02
Joseph
Yeah.

00:56:22:15 – 00:56:35:11
Joseph
So I think that’s it. We’re not going to come back with closing thoughts because I don’t think it’s kind of a. Need it for this. All right. We did only get through really a fraction of the questions that I wanted to get through.

00:56:36:02 – 00:56:46:23
Joseph
So we’re probably going to turn this into a two or three parter, I think, because I think this was actually very interesting and very educational and entertaining for me. Hopefully, the audience feels the same way.

00:56:46:24 – 00:56:47:04
Joseph
Yeah.

00:56:48:11 – 00:57:05:29
Joseph
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00:57:06:15 – 00:57:21:18
Joseph
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00:57:22:05 – 00:57:35:15
Joseph
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00:57:35:15 – 00:57:52:05
Joseph
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00:57:52:16 – 00:58:09:11
Joseph
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00:58:09:21 – 00:58:19:00
Madison
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00:58:19:11 – 00:58:21:01
Joseph
Well done. That’s it. Another one of the.

00:58:21:01 – 00:58:22:09
Joseph
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Joseph
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