Sometimes You Need a War

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Sometimes the government has to come in and say, we're going to stop what you're doing because this is wrong. And i think the spirit of the constitution and lincoln was absolutely right. Do you think slavery would have ended eventually on its own? Has fallen into disuse for economic reasons? Or sometimes we need a war. Sometimes we need it military a you know, they had to just go in andsay. Segregatewa was segregation now, segregation to morrow, segregation forever.

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.