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The Virtue of Selfishness | The Yaron Brook Series | Episode 1 (WiM157)
The "What is Money?" Show
The Importance of Force
If we hold that reason is man's basic means of survival, could force be another one? If i put a gun to your had, your thoughts are irrelevant. You cannot do what i tell you to do, because otherwise i'll pull the trigger. Your life now depends not on reason, on obedience. It's the only circumstance in which you know, reason is irrelevant. The enemy of reason is any form of authoritarianism, force and coercion. We need to extract force from society. And how do we opperationalize individual rights? I would say we need a forman institution. Its basic job is to prevent peoplerom stealing from one another,. To prevent people from
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