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Tucker Carlson: belief

27 Feb 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #414 – Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom

“Have you ever met a leader? First of all, anyone who seeks power is damaged morally, in my opinion.”

— Tucker Carlson

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Speaker
Tucker Carlson
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
27 Feb 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…You said leaders kill, leaders lie. Yeah. I don’t believe in leaders very much like this whole, “Oh, Zelensky’s Jesus and Putin’s Satan.” It’s like, no, they’re all leaders of countries. Grow up a little bit you child. Have you ever met a leader? First of all, anyone who seeks power is damaged morally, in my opinion. You shouldn’t be seeking power. You can’t seek power or wealth for its own sake and remain a decent person. That’s just true. So there aren’t any really virtuous billionaires and there aren’t any really virtuous world leaders. You have grades of virtue, some are better than others for sure. In other words, Zelensky may be better than Putin. I’m open to that possibility. But to claim that one is evil and the other is virtuous, it’s like, you’re revealing that you’re a child, you don’t know anything about how the world actually is or what reality is. That’s quite a realist perspective, but there is a spectrum.…

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