What Is Morality?

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M what kind of want to live? That's what morality deals with. You make decisions about your own life every day and those are the important ones, are moral decisions. The key is why is it in your self interest to treat generally peopleh you don't know anything bad about? Well? Because human beings are value to you. And i can show you that imperfectly. But i'm not saying, treat me well ecause i'll treat you well. Reciprocity is out right. because some people treat me pretty badly, so should i treat them badly? Peemptively. It turns out that one of those les that you should treat people well because people are generally

Michael Shermer speaks with entrepreneur, writer, and activist Yaron Brook about Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Objectivism; individualism vs. collectivism; the nature of human nature; altruism, cooperation, reparations, and charity; the starting point of morality and the foundation of ethics; collective action problems and how they are best solved; our moral obligation to help those who cannot help themselves; the Is-Ought problem of determining right and wrong; reason and empiricism; immigration, abortion, foreign wars, the welfare state, and terrorism.