Debating Objectivist politics and ethics with TJump

My debate with a prolific YouTube debater who has 11.5k subscribers.

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Recorded on June 24, 2022.

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0:00 Intro to me and Objectivism

3:47 How do you fund a government without taxes?

4:49 Funding the military and a foreign policy of self-interest

14:09 Self-interest and freedom

19:39 Why haven’t countries adopted a fully voluntary system without taxes? Altruism.

29:04 Historical evidence for/against capitalism

30:48 Public education

33:40 Ayn Rand’s conception of selfishness

35:04 Why did Rand use the word “selfishness” and not something else?

36:23 Self-interest and helping others

38:25 Vaccines and the government’s proper role

40:42 Charity/benevolence under freedom vs. coercion

41:38 Poverty under freedom vs. coercion

42:26 Homelessness etc. under freedom vs. coercion

43:37 Coercive wages

44:54 Coercion. Becoming a “slave” to save one’s child: Is it moral? Should it be legal?

55:30 Coercion and prosperity; reason as the basic means of survival

57:59 Wealth inequality

59:33 Freedom/coercion and prosperity, in the long-run

1:04:52 Closing

At 59:27, I misspeak. I should have said we want inequality of wealth, not rights.

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