You can't derive an aught from it, is ah, who are we to say whether women should wear a burka or not, and so forth? Am andad. Therefore, you're imposing your western, imperialist capitaliston ideas upon other people. So let's just get right into that. How do you know that that's the right culture? Is the easiest one. But in a scale up from there,. I mean, you have to have a standardand i think, given towe human beings, a standard should be human well being. It should bea individual human folishing. A what culture allows individuals successful at ar flourishing, at achieving things, at pursuing happiness.
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.