Leaving men free to think, act, produce, attempt the untried & new creates the system to reward effort and achievement & penalizes passivity

what Is the nature of government?

can there be more than one government over a geographical area?

how can government be funded in a free society?

should government exist in a free society?

we ask all these and more on today episode

What subjectivism is in the realm of ethics, collectivism is in the realm of politics anything society does is right because society chose to do it is not a moral principle but a negation of moral principles & banishment of all morality from social issues.

There is no such dichotomy such as human rights VS. property rights no human rights can exist without property rights since goods are produced by men's mind and effort if he does not own the results he does not own his life.

there can be no compromise on moral principles, any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can benefit.

It is the fear of moral responsibility the leads men to adopt an attitude of morale neutrality.

to be selfish is to be motivated by concern for ones own interest this requires that one consider what constitutes ones self interest and how to achieve it, one cannot be concerned with one desire that of which one does not know.

A rational man never holds a desire or pursues a goal which cannot be achieved by his own effort. He trades value for value. If a man pursues a goal the requires the effort of others, he seeks not anything but his own ability to persuade them to his goal.

Advocates of altruism are unable to base their ethics on any facts of men's normal existence and only offer "lifeboat" situations as examples in which to derive moral conduct.

- Ayn Rand

Mans life and self esteem require that a man take pride in his power to think, pride in his power to live- but morality, men are taught, holds pride, and specifically intellectual pride, as the gravest of sins. -N.B.

We begin our reading of Ayn Rand's book the introduction and first chapter

https://archive.org/details/AynRandTheVirtueOfSelfishness