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#178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy

Lex Fridman Podcast

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I'm Not a Psychic or Necromancer, but I Can Dismiss It

"The only way we're going to resolve this is armwrestling, right? It's to violence," he says. "Words are violence... Emotions are violence." He adds that the fact Ayn Rand disliked Rothbard doesn't mean she wouldn't dismiss everything he said if she didn't agree with it. But there's no evidence of such a thing being true in human psychology - and I'll give you some evidence. 'I'm not doing like this because I want to ... It has no cognitive status'

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