 have to raise an ethical question but I'm sure is commonly put to you by many both on the right and on the left namely what moral obligations if any in your view do we owe within society to not only the poor but to those who for whatever reason simply cannot fully exercise reason and take care of themselves well it really depends on what you mean by obligation right are you born with an obligation to help them no you have no obligation inherent in you being human if you're wealthy and you're taking care of yourself and you've taken care of your kids and and you you've basically got the material values that you need in order to pursue your happiness and you're going to opera and you're doing you're doing well in life then it's it's part of just living in a benevolent world and being a benevolent person that you you don't want human suffering to exist and to the extent that you can help out the extent that you can help another human being I think people would be happy egoistic rationally selfish people would be happy to help that human being not out of a sense of duty not out of a sense of obligation but out of a sense of recognition of the value of human life the recognition that all human life is of value and that human suffering is sad it's it's just not not a nice thing and that if it doesn't cause you any suffering if it doesn't cause you the inability to live a good life then why not help them the problem is that once you make it an obligation and this is what we see in the welfare state today it's an obligation so when is enough enough because there's always human suffering I mean I mean a lot of leftists point this out today and they're right you could take a little bit of what you have right now no matter how much you have and send it to Africa and you will save a little boy's life or a little girl's life you selfish bastard you're not doing that right you could and it wouldn't cost you that much but if you do that what about the next kid and the next kid and the next kid and when when does it stop being your obligation when is it not your duty anymore when you're in the verge of starvation when you're equal to their suffering then it's okay for you to stop sending that money that's the whole morality of guilt the whole morality of duty and obligation the whole morality that puts other people suffering as a as a claim moral claim against you that's what I ran rejected when you're you've taking care of yourself and you're in a good position how much you choose to help other people how much you choose to provide for the for the well-being of those who cannot take care of themselves or those who fall in bad luck all that that is an option that you have and and depending on your values and depending on your life and depending on what's going on in your life at that moment it's completely up to you not as a duty but as a choice to help those out and she believes that we would help them out because we value human life I mean people people will stop at the site of the road to help out an injured dog take time out of their life to take the dog in and take them to the vet not everybody right I might not don't like dogs that much right but somebody might if we're willing to take care of our pets and animals that way of course we'd be willing to take care of human beings and and and and help them but again not as this moral obligation that and that that has no end to it notice that we don't care anymore about absolute poverty we don't have absolute poverty in the West anymore now we care about relative poverty and you know there's always gonna be relative poverty unless unless you live in an egalitarian society and then we're all poor right absolutely so there's no who we helping out here today right because there's no end to it what there's always somebody who need who has less than you and therefore it there's that obligation goes on forever if somebody truly can't somebody really can't take it themselves I think it we every audience I go to I ask how many of you be willing to help those people who clearly wouldn't wouldn't be able to take care of yourself in this audience how many people would be willing to put a little bit of money and take care of them and it's probably well less than 1% of the population that that is true every hand in the room goes up all right what what do I need a welfare state for that what I need up this big moral obligation the stand and remember the standard is always your life not the life of the needy you might want to help them but that they're not the standard your life is the stand what we need today what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason by the intellect not by feelings wishes women are mystic revelations any man or woman who values his life and who does not get want to give in to today's cult of the spare cynicism and impotence and does not 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