Where Do Individual Rights Come From? God, Government, or...? | Yaron Brook Show
Channel: Yaron Brook
Date: 24/02/2024

00:00 Intro
01:23 Where Do Individual Rights Come From? 
03:27 Leftist Perspective
11:33 Christian Perspective
25:55 Tension
27:47 Perspective of Libertarian Darwinist
30:05 Fiction Perspective
31:43 What are Individual Rights https://courses.aynrand.org/works/mans-rights/
46:10 Other Rights
47:42 Role of Government http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/government
49:00 Democracy http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/democracy
50:10 Recognition of facts of reality
52:30 Reminders

Live Questions:
55:11 Can non-Objectivists live only mediocre lives at best?
1:00:25 Conservatives claiming we have open borders are reminiscent of the left who claim we have capitalism. Each blames their chosen fiction on problems created solely by statism.
1:04:25 So the existential character of any given individual is irrelevant - the ban on initiating force is universal?
1:05:48 Did you get a chance to see Norman Finkelstein debate Rabi Shmuley on Piers Morgan? You could have done a way better job. Going ad hominem I'm not sure was the way to go.
1:06:44 Most intellectuals in the 1920's and 30's were communists. Why were the intellectuals in Germany more sympathetic to fascism then egalitarianism?
1:08:45 Courtesy of your show I see rights as a value from the asymmetry of causality and freedom (free-will), and law as an asymmetry of causality and restraint. (Customary origins). Awesome job with the lecture.
1:11:08 Utmost respect for the founding documents of the U.S. as the intellectual pillars that created unparalleled peace and prosperity. However, ultimately those pillars need a firm philosophical base to continue to stand.
1:13:54 Hey Yaron I watched the show yesterday, and I just got to say how much I admire your passion and dedication. Keep it up! Great show today as well thank you.
1:19:57 If rights are inside you instead of being a moral concept then how could anyone justify putting a murderer in jail? His right to freedom would still be inside of him, even though he murdered.
1:20:57 Asymmetry means neither dualistic nor a dichotomy - but an integration of two complements a perception (freedom,law) and an abstraction (causality, restraint) that makes value possible.
1:22:01 Do you think freedom of action as pertains to individual rights, refers to the innate biological freedom to act, and/or the psychological freedom to act within the context of a moral/politcal context?
1:24:01 Why is biology not reducible to physics? Isn’t everything physics?
1:26:41 Does government have one proper function — to protect individual rights — or two, to transition to a government that protects individual rights and then do so?
1:27:28 Locke doesn’t answer why we have rights - he only answers that we can’t be enslaved by men because we all are God’s slaves
1:28:00 How would international patents be enforced in an Objectivist world without some kind of world government or global property rights court?
1:29:51 Rights come before government. Rights are there to inform governments of what they may or may not do.
1:30:01 Would you consider nazism a catholic movement or a kind of neo-mystic pagan movement?
1:31:07 Listen to Yasmine Mohammed's powerful story. Link👇
1:32:43 Hayek vs Ayn Rand
1:39:40 Why is the concept of self-love not emphasized in Objectivism? Do you view it as synonymous with self-esteem?
1:41:55 I've heard you seem to imply in past talks that it's the Jews/other minorities fault that they were marched into concentration camps. Is this victim blaming? Or did these populations operate on zero self esteem and pride?
1:44:10 Is The Tora and The Old Testament the same?
1:44:57 What is the relationship between the CCD and a standard of value? Rights aren't self-evident, the history of philosophy shows that the objectivity of concepts and values aren't self-evident either.
1:46:30 If rights are a concept protecting human action, would a baby born without a brain have rights? Without a brain, such a human being would not be able to take any action.
1:48:07 See pinned comment for timestamps of additional questions

2:10:42 Outro

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