The Dan Norton Show, 22 May 2026, Livestream #101

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0:00 Intro

Humans & fetuses syllogism

Stirner

Israel

Why is theism bad?

51:53 Call with Austin re: immigration

Nihilism

Racism

America exceptionalism

A nation isn't property

1:12:07 "Invasion"

Israel

Ethiopian example

Unlimited democracy

(Audio trouble for under a minute)

Constitutional support

"Invasion"

Racism and immigration

1:47:50 Short break until 1:49:33

No right to a job/wage

1:56:27 Egoism

Is America egoist?

"Sacrifice"

Racism

Happiness and egoism (founding father quote in Super Chat)

Would you let yourself be killed or all the rest of humanity?

2:35:54 Lost audio until 2:40:38

Diagram of syllogism (Super Chat)

Barbara and Cemarent syllogisms

2:46:23 An inspirational essay by Ayn Rand (Super Chat)

The founding fathers and egoism

Egoism and valuing others

Psychological egoism

Screening a caller

Austin's final comments

3:02:26 End of call

3:05:15 Break until 3:15:10

3:25:07 Antitrust and nihilism

Outshining others in school

3:31:07 USCIS policy memo

Should there be visas? Immigration in early America

Racism and U.S. immigration law that Hitler supported

Screening a caller

4:12:03 Intellectual property rights in conflict with other rights?

Channel analytics

Spiritual value

Outro

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The Dan Norton Show, 17 May 2026, Livestream #100

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0:08 Intro

7:28 Job paths for philosophy majors

AI impact on grad school / higher education

13:54 Are you afraid of AI psychosis? (Super Chat)

My use of AI

33:07 Is the Bible a good book?

The garden of Eden

54:40 Call with Conrad

How do we know we're experiencing reality and not just something in our minds?

Consciousness has an object

The universe, time, and space

A fish in water

1:22:22 Passage from Ayn Rand on existence and consciousness

The prior certainty of consciousness

Self-consciousness and animals

Solipsism, Berkeley's idealism

Creating a poll on what to discuss

1:50:10 AI and robots (Super Chat)

Philosophy and dreaming (Super Chat)

Axioms and assumptions

Definitions of axiomatic concepts

What would constitute evidence for mind-independent existence?

Contrast argument and object permanence

2:29:13 Faith in objective reality?

2:36:46 End of call

2:39:58 Call with Hayden about faith and God

New Testament passages on faith

Faith and confidence

The meaning(s) of "faith", passages in the New Testament

Miracles as evidence, the Trinity

Magnetic force

3:07:43 Why don't I believe in God?

Universe, Big Bang, time/space, finitude & eternity

Wikipedia vs. the Bible

3:48:38 End of call

Poll results

4:02:05 Induction (Super Chat)

4:18:22 Considerations on going to grad school in philosophy (Prophet Divinityy)

4:33:28 Should there be a one-state world?

4:42:37 Break until 4:53:52

Engaging with chat

5:17:44 Call with Mellow Mau

Objective reality

Metaphysical vs. man-made

Reading a text re: abortion

6:15:26 Metaphysics textbook example

"Empiricists are greedy"

Article on rockets example

6:37:22 End of call

Screening a caller; he turns out to be a troll

6:51:29 How would you define "arrogance"? (Super Chat from Audrey)

7:10:11 Why didn't Rand include aesthetics in her standing-on-one-foot summary of Objectivism?

"Introduction to Objectivism" by Leonard Peikoff

"Arrogance" definition (continued)

7:25:57 Metaphysical vs. Man-made (Super Chat from Audrey)

7:35:44 Call with Audrey on the metaphysical vs. man-made

The meaning of "metaphysical"

8:00:17 End of call

8:02:55 Call with Austin on immigration

Tribalism, racism

A nation isn't private property

8:33:14 End of call

Value in the Bible

Outro

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On 15 May 2026, I called the livestream of @PiscoLitty , a leftist lawyer and legal/political commentator, and we discussed many deep, philosophic issues.

0:00 Preliminaries, sound check

1:12 Intro to me and my channel

1:41 Pisco’s background with Ayn Rand

2:18 Metaethics: Stance (in)dependence

Metaphysics and epistemology

5:33 Subjectivism, Kant, and skepticism

15:29 Two meanings of “objective”

22:08 What is reality?

27:03 Two types of knowledge: Perceptual and conceptual

33:03 Hallucinations/dreams and certainty about mind-independence

36:45 Justification

38:53 A passage from Ayn Rand related to perception and mind-independence

44:34 Hegelian idealism

47:19 Justification (again) and (in)valid questions

49:56 Possibility and logic

53:34 The law of identity, self-evidence, and assumptions/axioms

Metaethics (and a bit on rights)

1:05:03 The nature of rights, needs, and survival

1:08:52 Life as the standard of value

1:09:52 What if your goal is death?

1:15:57 “Is-ought gap," life, and minds

1:17:43 Imagination, possibility, and definitions (flying pigs)

1:22:47 Mind and matter

1:24:04 Oughts and life

1:29:00 Is it coherent to value death?

1:29:57 Role play with Satanist begins: Preferences and goodness

1:36:28 The source of the concept “good”

1:42:06 Are preferences arbitrary?

1:43:22 The meaning of “arbitrary” and “based on reality”

1:50:09 “Good,” life/happiness, and pleasure

1:50:57 Psychopaths and babies

1:57:40 The source of the concept “good” and its meaning

2:01:33 Good, pleasure, psychopaths, and human beings

2:04:27 Hannibal Lecter: Is he a human being?

2:11:13 Does everything act according to its nature?

2:13:48 Sadism

2:16:17 Are good and evil only relevant to human beings?

2:16:39 Free will and morality

2:18:51 Outro

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The Dan Norton Show, 12 May 2026, Livestream #99

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0:06 Intro

6:59 Comments on @ObjectiveEthics 's stream with an anti-natalist

MAID (Medical Assistance In Death)

13:19 How long did you PhD take?

18:40 Reading update: Second Book of Samuel

Screening a call

26:27 Call with Austin on abortion, etc.

When does life begin?

When does a human begin?

The adjective and noun sense of "human"

Does it become a human when the umbilical cord is cut?

Viability

The age of majority

A coma patient

The meaning of "metaphysical" and "physical"

Aristotle's categories

1:23:05 MAID (Medical Assistance In Death)

What is an entity?

Conjoined twins

The purpose of rights

@ObjectiveEthics 's Super Chats

1:46:28 Why doesn't the government want to allow MAID?

1:46:53 Lost Austin's sound for about 1.5 minutes

What countries/states allow MAID

Simpler(?) cases of zygotes/blastocysts

Touch

Conjoined twins

Does potentially being conscious suffice for rights? Rock spray example

The world five billion years ago

Potential corpse

Smashing the rock

3:05:14 Egoism

3:17:30 "Sacrifice"

Package deals

Serving in the military

3:31:50 Jumping on a grenade

Does an egoist lie, cheat, steal?

3:40:34 Lying on applications

Living by principles

Atheism, materialism

Concepts

4:11:35 The concept "chair"

Austin's background with Ayn Rand

Engaging with chat

White lies: Does this dress make me look fat?

Contextual absolutes: Newton's laws, viruses, bloodtype example

4:35:36 End of call

4:42:15 "How should the West deal with its Islamism problem? How should the state protect individual rights against this ideology?" (Super Chat from romanviking)

Is Islam a religion of peace? Muhammed

Christian altruism; love your enemy

Rights and egoism, America's founders

5:02:19 Break until 5:12:58

Should there be a maximum age of consent?

Reading various chats

5:38:25 Ayn Rand and Social Security, Ida May Fuller

Screening out a troll

6:05:27 Call with Mellow Mau

Troll screening

"Consciousness spray"

(6:20:05 lost about 1.5 minutes of Mau's audio)

6:21:51 When hypotheticals are or aren't useful/valid

Ayn Rand and a rational spider

Definitions, Wittgenstein and "family resemblance"

Kierkegaard

"Water is H2O", Kripke

(7:13:06 My audio, but not the caller's, is lost until 7:19:05)

7:20:42 End of call

Outro

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The Dan Norton Show, 7 May 2026, Livestream #98

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0:00 Intro

Updates to my thumbnail/background

7:11 Reading update: First Book of Samuel

Am I pro-US/Israel/West?

More about my thumbnail/background

13:37 My recent social media posts on taxation and abortion

I was re-posted by the Libertarian Party

21:13 Where do rights come from?

Screening a caller

31:54 Call with John about where rights come from and God

(A minute or so of caller's audio is missing)

Libertarians

The meaning of being a rational animal

Describing the nature of the subjective, intrinsic, and objective

Applying this to rights

The meanings of "objective"

God

Checking in with chat

1:27:20 Motivating the discussion of God

My upbringing and views on God

John's upbringing and views on God

Why I don't believe in God

Could God make 1+1=10?

The realm of unreason

Arguments for God

Time, space, and the universe

1:59:52 End of call

Andrew Wilson vs. Liam Stayton debate

2:10:41 Call with Mellow Mau, who wants to reconcile Buddhism with Objectivism

A five-part framework

Refuting idealism (the idea that everything is mental or part of a dream)

Perception

Does everything have a cause?

Volition, conditioning, and preconditions

Victim mentality, learned helplessness

Model of enlightenment in Buddhism. Are there parallels in Objectivism?

Hierarchy of knowledge

Induction and reduction

3:56:08 End of call

Engaging with chat

3:57:54 "Does the state need taxes to uphold individual rights? Should all receive equal state services regardless of how much taxes he/she paid?" (Super Chat from romanviking)

4:09:40 "Should there be any regulation of private military/security, so the state retains the practical monopoly on the legal initiation of force?" (Super Chat from romanviking)

Revolution and anarchy

Understanding other species modes of perception

The war on drugs

4:32:23 "How would you change the judiciary system ideally?" (Super Chat from romanviking)

"could we make the prison system more affordable/profitable for example? Should many sentences look different?"

4:45:40 "What percentage of societal issues could be shown to be systemic from governmental educational system versus placing the education system into into the private enterprise side of things?"

4:51:33 "Should the government finance the education needed to understand and uphold the law? Is that a legitimate function of government?"

Taxes and education

5:00:37 Call with Alex from Germany on taxes and education

(About seven minutes of Alex's audio was lost.)

Inequality

Benefits of government education, affordability of private education

Effect of cutting funding for government schools overnight

Costs of public/private education

5:34:50 End of call

Engaging with chat

History of public education

Are you aware of large "philosophy" forums or discords that ban Ayn Rand?

Grade inflation

5:50:04 Call with Lucas on Israel and the U.S.

Why do I think Israel is good?

Are all countries murderous regimes? Is the U.S.?

Japanese internment

Philippines colonization

Native Americans

Nuclear scientists in Iran, Iran history

Native Americans (again)

Philosophers I've read

Israel -- why support or ally with it?

An ethnostate?

Allying with Muslim states

Lucas' closing statement

6:55:58 End of call

Engaging with chat

My closing thoughts on the last call

Zionism

"What made you choose philosophy as a major and proceed to go to a phd with it?"

Abortion

Regime change should be the objective in Iran

7:10:35 Outro

The Dan Norton Show, 2 May 2026, Livestream #97

0:00 Intro

"Christ is King" (engaging with a religious chatter)

Reading update: Books of Samuel

17:56 "Trump has not initiated this war with Iran by seeking approval from Congress, but do you think as I do, that the it is just to defend America from the Islamists Iran supports? Iran is the problem." (Super Chat from Jeff Bannister)

24:27 God or no God?

34:10 Call with Otangelo about God, the universe, time, etc.

Does the universe need to be explained?

Quoting scientists

Consciousness from matter?

1:30:29 End of call

Channel memberships

_1984_ and 2+2=4

Existentialism and mystics of spirit

Time and motion, space and modern physics

Being able to say why is it important

Screening a call

1:59:32 Call with Conrad, mostly on whether we can know a reality exists independent of our minds

Where "good" and "bad" come from

Necessary/sufficient conditions of something being "bad"

(2:05:00 until 2:07:41 Conrad's audio is missing)

Trump and taxes as bad because anti-reason and anti-reality

Reality and subjective experience: Is there something independent of the mind?

Dreams and hallucinations

Passage from Ayn Rand

Perception and experience

2:53:43 End of call

Perception and experience (continued)

3:01:15 Call with John on various political issues

The Trump administration and the Iran war, regime change, war strategy

Trans issues, e.g., sports, woman of year, Korean spa

Libertarians

Elon Musk

Trump

Immigration

Welfare

Welfare for people so they don't revolt

4:17:39 End of call, some closing thoughts

"what do you think about Mackie's argument on cognitivism?"

Screening two callers

4:38:50 Break until 4:50:01

4:51:10 Call with Josie

Rand's metaphysics, A is A

Perceptual illusions

Capitalism, libertarians

Deleuze and continental philosophy

Is there one right approach to philosophy?

5:28:46 End of call

5:30:04 Call with Mesa of Life on Ayn Rand, egoism, etc.

Tribal animosities, conspiracies

Nuclear power, egoism/altruism in foreign policy

Why are Islamists anti-West?

Pendulum swings

Men and women, birthrate

Ayn Rand on children/family

Is jumping on a grenade selfless?

Purpose

Could being a bank robber be in your self-interest if you're not caught?

Egoism and relations with others

Capitalism--not what we have today

Reason vs. rationalism

Egoism and narcissism

Individuals and societies succeed or fail together

7:08:19 End of call

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The Dan Norton Show, 27 April 2026, Livestream #96

0:00 Intro

Cough drop

Many new subscribers

7:54 What good can you say about theism?

@ObjectiveEthics ' Super Chat

The meanings of "objective"

What's the difference between Objectivism and "anarcho-capitalism"?

Is truth always good?

Distorting truth

31:40 How is Ayn Rand's support of self-reliance consistent with her support for Israel, given that Israel has a welfare state? (Call from Jerry)

Faith; effects of believing truths vs. falsehoods

Screening a call

54:00 Call with Alton, mostly on the "non-aggression principle" (NAP)

Why is theism bad?

"Good" and "bad" as relative to an agent

1:04:09 Capitalism, anarchy, and the "non-aggression principle"

Is it human nature to be violent?

Not many people grasp or agree with the NAP today or in history

1:35:28 End of call

The non-initiation of force depends on egoism

1:50:12 Call with Jeffrey, a Christian

Are there "universals"?

Faith

What are "universals"?

Concepts

2:05:50 Ethics

"Something exists" -- begs the question?

Brute facts

"Accounting for reality"

2:26:59 End of call

2:35:09 Break until 2:47:20

2:49:08 What are your thoughts on Kant?

_The Ominous Parallels_ by Leonard Peikoff

_Ayn Rand Lexicon_ entries on Kant

Definition by ostension

What are your thoughts on abortion?

Assumptions vs. perceptions

How were job opportunities once you got the degree? Do you work anything outside of this?

3:28:15 Where’s a good starting point for me to learn more about Ayn Rand? Which book of her’s should I start with?

_Anthem_, _The Ayn Rand Lexicon_, etc.

What's the best source on practical epistemology?

Analytics on today's show

3:38:36 Would you recommend getting a PhD in philosophy?

Saul Kripke

What do you think is the appeal of religion in the modern world and also throughout human history?

Choosing a purpose

3:53:40 What if Ayn Rand was my mother?

Ayn Rand as a romantic partner

4:04:41 How do you respond to criticisms that Rand never engaged with any other thinkers?

Putting epistemology into practice

4:13:04 Why is altruism bad?

Screening a call

4:24:08 Call with Mark on leftism, capitalism, etc.

Were you religious prior to being an atheist?

Why is leftism bad?

Government funding and corruption

Can I be bribed?

Merchant cash advance, payday loans

My streaming schedule and YouTube channel

Licensing, private roads

Is giving to charity moral?

Libertarianism vs. Objectivism

Capitalism

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22 April 2026, Livestream #95

0:00 Intro

Objectivism on the military

Is sacrificing ever legitimate?

36:07 James Valliant (Robert Nasir's first Super chat)

"Objectivist"

50:53 Do you think it's possible to be an objectivist and police officer in 2026 without experiencing cognitive dissonance? I feel it is likely easier to do in military (Bobby Williams' Super chat)

1:05:14 It's too bad that "grace" has a long association with religion ... because grace & graciousness are rational virtues, which don't get enough emphasis!

Screening a call

1:17:55 Call with Isidro about faith, evidence, etc.

"God of the gaps"

Crisis

Troll interruption

What's it all for?

Sacrifice

1:56:06 End of call

A bit more on Robert's first Super Chat about grace

2:03:27 If Objectivism requires capitalism, but its implementation depends on laws not yet written—and those laws aren’t Objectivism itself—how do you define the line between the philosophy and its application? (Jason's Super Chat)

Calls trump Super Chats?

2:15:23 More on grace (Robert's third Super Chat)

2:21:03 Is compatibilism compatible with Objectivism?

Religious morality

Utilitarianism vs. egoism

2:37:35 Should all laws be checked by the supreme court before they become law, so they are constitutional? Is parliament daily necessary in capitalism? (romanviking's Super Chat)

2:52:40 Under capitalism, how can suicide be a rational response to the loss of a loved one? 🪦 Why not choose to enjoy life? (Audrey's Super Chat)

3:02:58 If we achieve ASI, is morphing with AI through Neuralink humanity's best bet to achieve alignment and not be enslaved like we enslave other animals? (romanviking's Super Chat)

Screening a call

3:37:28 Break until 3:48:25

3:52:00 Call with "Evolutionary-Capitalist"

4:27:18 The call degenerates and he hangs up

He continues in chat. I block him.

I engage with chat about the call(er)

4:42:24 Why is faith bad?

4:53:37 Call with Jere on anarcho-capitalism vs. Objectivism

6:02:20 Call with ictagon on capitalism/leftism

Outro

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17 April 2026, Livestream #94

0:00 Intro

Channel memberships

5k+ views on my last livestream—but mostly not real views?

Addressing an issue with a chatter from Discord

More on channel memberships

Engaging with miscellaneous chats

Rejecting religion in general despite possibly good elements

Anthem

Eastern philosophy jokes

Etc.

1:29:10 What gives rise to the need for government?

Deriving government from scratch in a simple island case

Apple tree example from last stream revisited

A troll tries to call in

2:39:38 Another troll calls in

3:01:54 Break until 3:12:25

3:15:41 Call with Mellow Mau

Buddhist views on the soul, "Atman" and "Brahmin"

"Rotten kid theorem" by Gary Becker

3:40:56 What it means to follow reason

Fundmental theorem of calculus example

4:14:41 Contradictions

4:27:05 Contradictions in Ayn Rand's work?

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6:04:55 Call with Illuminati about defining "the left"

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12 April 2026, Livestream #93

0:00 Intro

My recent debate with "liberal" Kyla Turner ( @notsoErudite ) on government regulations and capitalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nao4d40kYG4.

Are all rights-violations reducible to initiations of force?

27:09 Are you a true ether believer?

Are you an Inductica fan?

Leonard Peikoff vs. Yaron Brook on immigration, education

James Valliant no longer identifying as an Objectivist

"Objectivists" who support Trump

"Objectivist Buddhists," "Christian Objectivists"

"Objectivist" as an honorific

"Anarcho-Objectivists"

Harriman, alt account

Trump and pragmatism

57:32 Call with AGOSTI about my recent debate with Kyla Turner

Break

2:06:44 Call with "anarcho-capitalist" (Chi aka "officialClearDice") #ancap #libertarian

What keeps me from making the leap from Objectivism to "anarcho-capitalism"?

Apple tree example

Self-interest, Iran, politicians/businessmen

Stolen TV example

8 billion monarchs

Audio trouble

2:53:33 8 billion monarchs (continued)

Audio troubleshooting

3:04:48 "Monarcho-capitalism" and "anarcho-capitalism"

3:06:54 Island example, apple tree revisited

Inducing government: a neutral third party to help resolve disputes

3:49:34 Summary, final thoughts

3:53:59 End of call

"Are you following events tonight between Iran and the USA?" (Super Chat from Stephen Harper)

Analytics on my videos

4:19:44 Call with Holden

Regulations and self-interest

Exceptions, charity

Counterfactuals

FDA

Free market rating agencies

The military draft

Having kids

Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (ITOE)

Outro

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