Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Sam Harris Will Be on the Show" video.

  1. Nah, he's pseudo, as well.
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  2. Sam Harris is a moron. Based on his objective morality garbage, he shouldn't even have a philosophy degree.
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  3. He is a bigot, with a hard-on for Muslims.
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  4.  Jack Schitt  He doesn't even put his writings from his supposed field of expertise up for peer review. Good thing, because he's not very good at philosophy. Outside his supposed field of expertise, he's even worse.
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  5. But he's not really "very" critical about any other religion. He strawmans, pretending like the WBC are the worst Christians going, when there are far worse. I've never heard him discuss Hindu India being ranked worse than Saudi, for women. Etc.
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  6. Harris is an idiot.
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  7.  Optimus Prime  "leftist" Rofl, he's not.
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  8. What makes you think he's left, and not simply a right wing libertarian, similar to Rubin, or a right wing neo-liberal?
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  9.  @gregorsamsa1364  Based on what?
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  10.  @gregorsamsa1364  But his expressed position is pro gun and anti factual firearm statistics; justified torture; anti-Muslim bigotry; Hillary (right wing in most other developed countries) over Bernie (centrist in most other developed countries); Ben Carson (a complete and utter right wing moron) over Noam Chomsky; justified US aggression abroad; Andy Ngo (Proud Boy lap dog and editor at Quillette, which grouped the American Nazi Party, as well as other white supremacist/nationalist groups and people as "conservative" victims of supposed liberal Twitter bias) over Antifa; etc. What makes him left?
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  11.  @minhocho5487  He never made it beyond what he stated was a given, from the outset. His chess "analogy" confuses law for morality. His fearmongering about AI contradicts his own supposedly objective hierarchy. Saying every version of morality going concerns "well being" means there are multiple ideas of "well being", but he goes on as if there's a singular idea ... his own. His health "analogy" ignores that "healthy" and "unhealthy" don't include oughts, while "moral" and "immoral" do. His poison vs food "analogy" just doesn't grasp what "poison" is. People can get water poisoning, ffs, as well as from various foods. Most poisonings are overdoses of medicine, that are supposed to help you. It's total trash. He's an idiot.
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  12.  Jack Schitt  Yep.
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  13.  Jack Schitt  Harris doesn't even grasp that mutual deterrence is based on mutually assured destruction. Because he doesn't, he's the psycho in his "thought" experiment. He makes out like he can take out the first country, with no return fire, and only have to deal with other countries getting mad about it after the fact. The reality of mutual deterrence is that, as soon as you send your missiles towards them, they send their missiles towards you. Harris is the suicidal one. He also conflates "Muslim" into "Islamist" into "Jihadist", opening by saying we have to worry about all Muslims. Pakistan has nukes. They seem to grasp mutual deterrence just fine, and aren't anywhere close to being as psychotic as Harris, himself. He doesn't even seem to grasp Jihadists. Although they may influence some individuals to make suicide attacks, they're not suicidal, en mass. They have goals that require the majority to remain alive. The same goes for non-Muslim extremists, like the Tamil Tigers, who invented suicide vests. The end goal requires most of them be alive.
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