{"id":234,"date":"2020-01-22T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/?p=234"},"modified":"2020-01-22T07:28:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T15:28:01","slug":"who-decides-whats-right-or-wrong-by-elan-journo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/2020\/01\/22\/who-decides-whats-right-or-wrong-by-elan-journo\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Decides What&#8217;s Right or Wrong? by Elan Journo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In ethics, the question \u201cWho ultimately decides what is morally right or wrong?\u201d is commonly asked. Notice that in other areas of life there\u2019s no issue of \u201cwho decides\u201d what\u2019s right or wrong. For example, if your car won\u2019t start, you call a mechanic to inspect it. After he replaces the battery, the car works again. We have a clear-cut answer\u2014no one \u201cdecides.\u201d So, why do we treat moral issues differently? Why is there an issue of final authority in ethics? And how should we think about this issue?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join Elan Journo as he presents Ayn Rand\u2019s revolutionary answer to the question: Who decides what\u2019s morally right or wrong?<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In ethics, the question \u201cWho ultimately decides what is morally right or wrong?\u201d is commonly asked. Notice that in other areas of life there\u2019s no issue of \u201cwho decides\u201d what\u2019s right or wrong. For example, if your car won\u2019t start, you call a mechanic to inspect it. After he replaces the battery, the car works&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[505,89,13,9,237,37,460,113,28,486],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","tag-choice","tag-elan-journo","tag-ethics","tag-independence","tag-judgment","tag-morality","tag-objectivity","tag-reason","tag-right","tag-wrong","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}