I don't justify any war. I'm sympathetic to those who didn't want to enter the war until it was inevitable, until literally, we were attacked at bull habor. It's none of our business if corea ance to is going to become communist, or if the communist overrun. Dictatorship doesn't spread like a virus. dictatorship usually collapses on itself without external supports and and without the sanction of a country like the united states. And you know, iran had the perspective, and i think this is the right perspective, that authoritarianism ultimately is a losing ategy. It leads to poverty and it leads to self destruction. There's no reason, there's
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.