The Evil of Collectivism

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Reparations for the holycast to israel, but those people are actually alive. You treat germans to day as if they're morally responsible for the sins of germans a hundred years ago. And reparations mean money out of my pocket goes to somebody that i did not do anything bad too,. I'm not responsible for it. So this is the evil of collectivism and of altruism that in rand keeps warning us of in hobooks. Yon that front, i think you have u a p r problem with the word greed. It's kind of what people hear when they hear atlas shrugged ein rand.

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.