
197. Yaron Brook on Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, and Objectivism
The Michael Shermer Show
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I Think It's Not as Bloody as It Sounds
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.
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