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197. Yaron Brook on Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, and Objectivism

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Don't You Have a Moral Obligation to Help Someone?

Don't we have a moral obligation to help people around the world who are being oppressed? No, we can't help everybody. I certainly feel bad for people stuck in these wasons, who are born in unfree countries. And refugees in syria, if you decide that you want to help them come to the united states, all the power to you. Bring them to the united States. We should have a much more open emigration system than we have today. So, but for the state to make those calls for the state to oblige me into what should be my obligations is wrong. Rather than, i can help north korea, you can help and again, we'd

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