Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
Scott Adams Philosophy Archive
Search ideas

Context —

eople. And I know somebody here is going to say they give hydroxychloroquine. I rule that out as an explanation at this point. Hydroxychloroquine I don't think even makes sense as an explanation, right? I see it in the comments but I don't think it makes sense because it would just be too obvious if it were right. Nobody would be talking about India being a mystery if that was the answer to the my…

← Previous segment →

irness and compassion and empathy and all that, the easiest way to think of life is everybody is infinitely different. I'm not like other white people. Sorry, sorry. I know you would like me to be like the white guy with all the white things but I'm not like anybody I've ever met whether they're white or not. I'm as different from every Black citizen in this country as I am from every white citizen in this country. Now not in terms of how society treats me. That's a separate question. But in terms of who I am, I am infinitely different than everybody and so are you. It's not because I'm so special. We're all unique. That's a useful frame. That's useful.

Now you might argue when you're — oh but you're not that unique and there are groups that have things in common and that's important. Okay, okay. It's just not useful to talk like that because I mean the science is still going to do what science does. But when we imagine that people are on a team you just get in trouble. And similarly with the transgender stuff. People are trying to convince me, Scott don't you understand that kids will make the wrong decision and regret it for the rest of their life? Yes I understand that. Who doesn't understand that? Who doesn't feel empathy for that? Who doesn't think you would like to have less of that? Everybody. Nobody's on any other side. If anything tragic happens to a child I think we all wish it didn't happen. But we live in a world where you have the freedom to destroy your own life in any way you want. I mean there are some laws that might make it harder but you do have freedom.

Now in the real world parents of course have a great control over their kids. And if the parents also agree to let a child make a decision which ends up ruining the child's life, at least the right people were involved. At least it was the people involved made the decisions. A lot of them are terrible decisions. A lot of them are awful. But I don't think you can change that. That's one of those things you can't change. Now you can certainly do everything you could do to make sure people make better decisions. That would be good. I'd be all for that. I do think that you should also consider some kind of moratorium when it comes to people under 18. I think that that's worth talking about, right? Because it is certainly true that if you're under 18 you should not have the same rights as people who have fully developed brains, right? So I wouldn't mind seeing a law that says you just can't do it until you're a certain age. It might not be 18. It might be 16. You know, something that makes sense. But let's get away from this there are two genders. Even if it's true it's just so harmful. It's such a — it just turns it into a fight and it doesn't need to be a fight, right? It just doesn't need to be a fight.

Is there anybody you know on any political realm who thinks that they would like to see a child make a life-destroying decision at age eight? No. Nobody. Nobody wants to see a child destroy their life at age eight if you can avoid it. But you also need to give people their freedom. All right, so it's always going to be a balance. But the there's two genders doesn't get you anything. It buys you nothing. Only trouble. All right, so that's what I say about that.

And have I made everybody angry yet? Probably. I think I've said enough. Have I — what made you the most angry about today's live stream of the topics I mentioned? If you were here for the whole thing, which of my topics bothered you the most? Because I'll probably do more of those now. I'm actually interested to see which one bothered you the most.

Somebody says what about the girls who want to compete in the Olympics? The Olympics should just go away. I think the Olympics is some of the worst things that we do to children. Think about all the children who spent their whole life doing ice skating training and then never even made it to the Olympics. And that was their life goal. I think the Olympics is child abuse frankly. That's just my opinion. So I don't think we need to fix the Olympics. Just get rid of them. It's just trouble. It's not fun anyway.

All right, the Cuomo stuff. Oh people are saying that the Cuomo stuff bothered them the most. Now did it bother you because you thought that I was defending him or did it bother you? Is that why? So even though I said 12 times I'm not defending him, is the reason that you're bothered is because you say I defended him? Because I think that's what's happening even though I didn't.

All right. UFO investigations, I'll talk about that in anot

Context —

her day. Somebody says your obsession with AOC bothers me a lot. Well you know you get blocked for that, right? So I'm going to block you for that. So everybody who says that I have some kind of obsession with AOC is going to get blocked because I just don't want people like that in my world. Did I have an obsession with Trump? I'm going to talk about the people who know how to do persuasion. All…

Next segment → →