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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: Inviting in the Vandals: The Just Stop Oil Protests
Description: In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the recent attacks conducted by the Just Stop Oil activists and offer a moral and political evaluation of both the group itself and people supporting them.
Among the topics covered:
How the media justification of the soup attack on a Vincent van Gogh painting encourages further attacks;
How to morally assess the protests conducted by the Just Stop Oil activists, especially in light of their harmful consequences;
Why we should worry that these protests might become more violent;
Why the wealthy fund and sanction Climate Emergency Fund...