Are There Pressures in Society to Conform?

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i think she's particularly popular, i in the teen age, early twenties, and then people drift away from it. Can you hold on to your unique values, or do you conform with everybody? That's an essential question in morality. Most peopleare immoral in that sense. They conform. They give up their own ideals. I'm certainly one of those people. I hold on to those ideals. Others succumb to society. Because that's what i think iman inspires a person to do be the best that you can be,. not just materially but primarily spiritually.

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.