Morality Is a Set of Principles to Help an Individual Guide His Life

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It is in individual beings who perceive, emote, respond, love, feel and suffer, not populations, races, genders, groups or nations. Historically, historically, immoral abuses have been most rampant when the individual is sacrificed for the good of the group. And that relationship with other people should be mutually beneficial. You you should get off my toe because it's good for you to get off my toe. Yes, i do. Satit os ike the e let's see werd i have it here as the individual, as the moral unit with which we must begin.

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.