Question 1: [1:55] - I've appreciated your recent shows on the subject of intelligence. As a parent and a professional teacher, the subjects of ability and IQ are something that we regularly discuss. My question has more to do with the parenting ramifications of this information. My wife and I both test high on intelligence tests and we've had our children tested and they are high as well. The problem that we face is that neither of us were exposed to good parenting role models of how to become excellent at a skill. I think we've sort of figured this out in our own way, but the results of our family background have certainly kept us from reaching our full potential. Our children are in a completely different environment though. We've raised them peacefully and we've tried to bolster their skills as much as we know how, but it still seems like their peers are achieving levels of skill that are above them in many areas. In these cases, one of the things that I've noticed is that the peers that are achieving high levels of skill are not being peacefully parented. They have parents who are constantly harping on them about their effort, their work, their character, using shame and physical punishment to get their children to achieve high levels of skill. These parents are the archetypal helicopter tiger parents. So, how do peaceful parents compete with these parents when it comes to preparing your children for the well-paying careers of the future? How can peaceful parents raise children to become excellent at something?Question 2: [50:34] - The past seventy years have proven that Mutually Assured Destruction is an empirically valid incentive for resolving conflict. Allowing WMDs, including nuclear weapons, to be traded on the free market, would provide the checks and balances to render organized combat obsolete. Should we let ISIS have nuclear weapons to help bring about peace?Question 3: [1:07:35] - Is it consistent with libertarianism to legalize date rape drugs? From a pragmatic view, would it too harmful to legalize? These are some of the things I struggled to answer myself.

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