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[00:00.94](From:Ayn Rand ---Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal)
[04:12.48]"The common good" (or "the public interest") is an undefined and undefinable concept
[04:21.41]There is no such entity as "the tribe" or "the public"
[04:27.05]The tribe (or the public or society) is only a number of individual men
[04:34.94]Nothing can be good for the tribe as such
[04:39.22]"Good" and "value" pertain only to a living organism
[04:45.61]To an individual living organism
[04:48.55]Not to a disembodied aggregate of relationships
[04:55.41]When "the common good" of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members
[05:06.85]It means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others
[05:13.02]With those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals
[05:20.66]What makes the victims accept this and permit a society to perpetrate a moral atrocity of that kind
[05:31.97]The answer lies in philosophy — in philosophical theories on the nature of moral values