I think that all of this is driven by morality, by ethics. And the moral code te hold, i think the world holds. We have now in gaza, where every five years we'll have a war. The hamas leadership will pocket a what the arabs call bakshish,. They'll pocket 5% or 10%. Theyall continue to get rich. So no, you have to end it. You save more lives long by ending it quickly then by letting this go on forever. But that requires a proper conception of self interest and a proper conception ofSelf-interest in foreign policy. I've written about a proper conception of Self-Interest in War.
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.