Debating Ayn Rand's ethics with S3rios (moderated by President Sunday)

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

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

https://www.patreon.com/DanNorton

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