Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgTuSCIfV1M.

#aynrand #sex #promiscuity #freelove #hippie #playboy #atlasshrugged

President Sunday's BioShock video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtCuppaCTEM

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#AynRand #PresidentSunday #BioShock #Fountainhead #atlasshrugged #Roark #sex #freelove #rape #natureofgovernment #rights #politicalspectrum #conservatives #liberals #communists #rights #fascists

Adam's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@AdamSomething

Recorded on January 14, 2023 as part of a marathon livestream on Adam's channel to commemorate his crossing of the one-million subscriber mark. The full stream can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIHJL95UFrY&t=31081s. That link should take you to the point where the debate starts, at 8:38:01. [Update May 18, 2023: the full stream is no longer available.]

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#aynrand #objectivism #freedom #coercion #politics #police #climate #monopolies #taxes #regulations #debate #AlexEpstein #USPS

0:00:00 Intro to Harley Dalton

0:07:22 Abortion discussion begins

0:12:14 Are you religious?

0:14:41 Back to the abortion discussion

(Perhaps I will add more timestamps later.)

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Recorded on November 30, 2022

My previous abortion debate with Tim Seiler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa0yOW3FLaw

Pregnant woman photo by Toro Tseleng on Unsplash

#abortion #aynrand #objectivism #rights #force #coercion #ethics #morality #zygote #embryo #fetus #baby #human #humanbeing

Full debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUbbmSEoP5Q

Have dictators “prospered and by all accounts lived happy lives”? That’s what my last debate opponent claimed in one of his videos. I decided to make that claim a focus of my opening statement when I debated him. Here is my opening statement from that debate.

Thumbnail image by S K from Pixabay (Stalin) and by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay (arrow).

#aynrand #stalin #hitler #mao #mussolini #dictator #morality #selfinterest #ethics

S3rios’ channel: https://youtube.com/@s3rios964

President Sunday’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PresidentSunday

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Recorded on October 23, 2022.

0:00 Intro

1:53 My opening statement

7:40 S3rios’ opening statement

12:16 My rebuttal

17:17 S3rios’ rebuttal

22:05 Open discussion (1): Is happiness/pleasure a (or the only) rational end?

40:26 Open discussion (2): Is Objectivism a (or the only) way to happiness?

Audience Q&A

1:08:29 Q1 (for Dan): Is happiness the goal of selfishness according to Rand?

1:12:52 Q2 (for S3rios): How are you not selfish, given Rand’s definition of it?

1:15:42 Q3 (for Dan): Can you be happy living off of passive income?

1:18:51 Q4 (for Dan): What is the fundamental nature of rationality?

1:24:06 Q5 (for Dan): Expand on how the law of identity operates.

1:29:21 Q6 (for S3rios): Would you espouse fascism if it led to the most happiness?

1:32:24 Q7 (for Dan): Exercise painful but good, heroin is pleasurable but bad, so why say pleasure/pain is intrinsically good/bad?

1:34:04 Q8 (for Dan): Is the idea that happiness/life is a value inconsistent with capitalism, which values profit?

1:35:56 Q9 (for Dan): How is the pleasure/pain-basis of values consistent with the unbounded genetic diversity of humans?

1:37:32 Q10 (for Dan, from President Sunday): What do better labor laws look like?

1:45:05 Closing statements

1:45:45 Dan’s closing statement

1:49:25 S3rios’ closing statement

0:00 Intro to Jerome Armstrong and Mike Mentzer

4:25 High-intensity training

18:40 Mentzer and performance enhancing drugs

23:41 Mentzer and Objectivism

39:06 Resources on high-intensity training

41:42 John Little

43:49 Mentzer’s relationships and early death; Jerome’s bodybuilding competitions; Ayn Rand

56:08 Mentzer and independence

58:59 Diet

1:05:42 Wrap-up

The article I quoted from in the video: https://attitudeadjustment.tripod.com/Speeches/SI-02-01.pdf.

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Recorded on August 24, 2022

Thumbnail bodybuilder image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay

Link to the debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m9ue_hOoAE

The debate occurred on September 28, 2022.

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Aaron's website: voidpod.com Twitter: @etvpod

Recorded on September 1, 2022

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Do I have any disagreements with the Objectivist philosophy? I was recently asked that question on my show. Here is the answer I gave.

0:00 The ultimate value and hedonism

4:34 The dictionary definition of "selfishness"

10:03 Summary