Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "Sam Harris on Donald Trump" video.
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Sam Harris has really evolved over this career.
However ... I think he is wrong about 7:00 where he says that he has resisted expressing opinions on stuff he knows nothing about.
The issue is, or should be, judgement. I think Sam has the judgement to know whether his opinion is relevant in a vote on something, whereas some - say Trump supporters, they have no judgment because mentally they are howling in psycho pain and are barely human reacting to random stuff they see in the world that they have never had the intelligence to process or the judgement to reality-check.
So, in order to make democracy work we have to have a way to sort people as to the value of their opinions.
And saying we should not do that and allow everyone to vote - that is one solution - if everyone voted or were required to vote, but if not and we have to choose an elite to run things, what we have chosen ends up empowering a certain elite, like criminal mob bosses. Our society and economy selects for people who can manipulate and manage power, like kings, which getting rid of was the entire reason our country came into existence ... at least that is what we are told to get us to buy in.
What is real, what is gaslighting?
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