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YBrook: In a recent podcast you refer to a worldwide division of labor. Would this require the free movement of labor of all kinds and the need to protect the rights involved? If so, are you advocating for a world government?
Date: February 4th, 2013
Duration: 03:08
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YBrook: Under pure Capitalism, with complete private property rights and no public land, would prevent a citizen from seceding from the boundaries of the established social contract?
Date: January 7th, 2013
Duration: 01:57
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YBrook: I own an investment property, but the mortgage is worth more than the value of the property. The tenant has stopped paying rent and is squatting in the house. An eviction would cost thousands of dollars. Would it be moral to default on the property?
Date: December 24th, 2012
Duration: 02:39
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YBrook: In a mixed economy, how should I address my self-interest for wanting to keep a public school up and running if it requires having to vote for an increase in taxes?
Date: December 24th, 2012
Duration: 02:46
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YBrook: Ayn Rand spoke of inalienable rights, above all man’s right to his own life. If this right is inalienable, then how can it be delegated or contracted to any one or any group, be it government or otherwise?
Date: December 24th, 2012
Duration: 03:55
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Rights
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YBrook: There is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed home in Phoenix and the owners want to demolish it. The community is outraged and the city is in the act of designating the building as a historical site. The owners in turn are threatening to sue the city. To me it’s clear that the city intends to violate the owner’s property rights, but I’m sad for myself and others that such a work be lost. For my emotions to align with reason, how should I feel if the owners prevail?
Date: December 10th, 2012
Duration: 02:28
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Emotions
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YBrook: If the current Supreme Court were to stay as conservative or more under a republican president, would abortion again be illegal? The Romney court took away private property rights in Massachusetts, will a liberal court under Obama preserve more property rights?
Date: November 26th, 2012
Duration: 04:07
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Rights
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You are against capital punishment because of the possibility of error and thus of killing an innocent person. Watching the James Holmes case, the suspect in the Batman premiere shooting in Colorado, I’m curious if you would say there is ever a case conclusive enough to warrant the death penalty?
Date: October 1st, 2012
Duration: 01:50
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Would a dictator be more or less immoral if he imposed Objectivism on a country?
Date: October 1st, 2012
Duration: 01:47
Topics:
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If Miss Rand was here today, what would be her first spoken sentence after learning that the Affordable Care Act had been signed into law as constitutional?
Date: September 13th, 2012
Duration: 01:13
Topics:
Individualism
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