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197. Yaron Brook on Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, and Objectivism

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Morality Is the Core of Morality

If i want you to take me seriously, unless i'm a galactic overlord, i have to state my case in a way that would force me to treat you in kind. If we expand the sphere of moral rights to incorporate everybodys society, there is society outside of of the individuals in it. When individuals are free and respect the freedom of others, which is called individual rights, wen they respect the individual rights of others, and they trade with them, then everybody in thatsociety is better off. That's not the core of morality. All that saying is that they are universal principles. And ethics the certain principles that apply just as much to you as to me

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