Milton Friedman on Self Interest

This clip from "Milton Friedman Speaks: Is Capitalism Humane?" was filmed at Cornell University in 1978. Milton Friedman discusses the concerns between moral values and the relationships between people.

In judging relations between people, I do not believe that the fundamental value is to do good to others whether they want you to or not. The fundamental value is not to do good to others as you see their good. It is not to force them to do good. As I see it, the fundamental value in relations among people is to respect the dignity and the individuality of fellowmen, to treat your fellowman not as an object to be manipulated for your purpose but to treat him as a person with his own values and his own rights, a person to be persuaded not coerced, not forced, not bulldozed, not brainwashed. That seems to me to be a fundamental value in social relations.

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