Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Sam Harris: Trump, Reparations, Manifestos, Fox News" video.

@reav3rtm Regardless of competence? So corporations are regularly hiring and promoting people that are totally unqualified? How do they stay in business?
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@christopherchilton-smith6482 Given: He said it's already considered a given that science can help you achieve subjective goals, but the consensus is that it can't tell us what our goals ought to be. Insert a subjective definition of "well being" as your goal, and end book in one paragraph. He totally failed to show how science can tell us what our goal ought to be. One bad "analogy": He claims chess is a sphere of perfect objectivity, and makes an "analogy" to morality. The problem is that chess is a game of rules, and that's what makes it somewhat objective (still isn't perfectly objective). A game of rules is analogous to a society of laws, not morality. Laws =\= morality.
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@BattousaiHBr When has CNN, NYT, MSNBC, etc., represented complete economic equality for all, equal ownership of property, resources, and production, and an end to capitalism? That's the "far left". They barely seem to tolerate the centre-left, like Bernie. The US has no "far left" politicians, pushing for outright Marxism, or something. On the other hand, the US has numerous US politicians who spout Ayn Rand crap. The US political spectrum goes from "far right" to centre-left, with almost all politicians being right of centre, to some degree.
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The later.
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@jknight9613 How is it "regressive"? Most people don't use that word properly.
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^ Oh geezus, a Jordan Peterson fan.
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@christopherchilton-smith6482 Ugh, his Moral Landscape is utter trash. He never gets beyond what he already agrees is a given, and can't seem to make an analogous analogy if his life depended on it. I have no clue how he got a philosophy degree, it's so bad.
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@christopherchilton-smith6482 The idiot doesn't even seem to grasp what "poisoning" actually is. It's too much of something in your system. He makes out like there's a clear difference between food, or things we should ingest, and "poison". We can get water poisoning. Apples have cyanide in them. Most "poisonings" are overdoses of prescribed medicines, which mostly help us. He's a dolt.
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@victorperez2939 What war? 9/11 broke Hitchens and he went full on neo-liberal, supporting not just the Afghanistan invasion, but the totally bullshit war in Iraq. Bernie is centre-left in normal countries. Harris is right of centre, like most corporate Democrats.
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Juanito G Do those dishonest debates tend to start out with you pretending there is a significant "far left" in the US? How many people are actually calling for economic equality for all, equal ownership of property, resources, and production, and a complete end to capitalism?
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Juanito G Moron. You don't know what an "ad hominem" is. Don't use Latin terms you don't understand, in an attempt to sound smart. https://laurencetennant.com/bonds/adhominem.html
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Juanito G Rofl. You didn't make an argument, dumb dumb. You made a statement. I asked questions. You tried to sound smart.
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Juanito G Rofl, even outright saying "that's bullshit", "that's a lie", or anything of the sort, isn't an "ad hominem", dumbass. Here's an ad hominem: You're a moron, so you must be wrong. See? That's a fallacy, because someone as dumb as you could still possibly be right about something. Declaring, or implying, that something someone else said is a fabrication is not an ad hominem. Meaning you're a moron.
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@spacedoohicky Doesn't he go around publicly shaming people, and committing some of his own character assassinations?
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@spacedoohicky How does "cancelling" have anything to do with your "main point", that I supposedly ignored, if you never mentioned it? Sam trashes individuals, without much "critique". He broad brushes and uses strawmans to publicly shame groups of people. He publicly announced a boycotting of Salon. He has advocated discrimination against Muslims in refugee choices, profiling, has said we're at war with Islam (practiced by every Muslim on the planet), and promoted others who say we're at war with Islam and that there's no such thing as moderate Islam. More than just de-platforming "witch hunts", he has helped stoke fears, leading to actual "witch hunts", with armed people harassing Muslims going to mosques, even people shooting up mosques, or people shooting up Sikh temples because they're morons, on top of being bigots, who can't tell the difference between Muslims and Sikhs.
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@spacedoohicky Also ... that was the point I was getting at ... that there is no real "far left" of any relevance in the US. Those Americans accuse of being "far left" tend to range from right wing corporate Dems to centre-left progressives.
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@spacedoohicky That's a stupid definition. By that definition those labelling people "Un-American", accusing them of commiting "infanticide", spouting "Commie" at anything left of far right economics, who have tried to social engineer society with laws against gays, women, minorities, are "far left", and quiet communists not "far left".
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@spacedoohicky How you think, or speak, is irrelevant to defining "far left" in a way that would equally apply to their total opposites. I'm in a that's a nonsensical way to define things mindset.
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@spacedoohicky Are people self identifying and defining themselves with a nonsensical definition, or are you identifying and defining people with a nonsensical definition? If the former, who are the people self identifying as "far left", and define it in a way that can equally apply to man babies calling for boycotts and bitching about movies with too many women in them?
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@spacedoohicky The context is that you're defining "far left" in a way that would apply to anti-abortionists.
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@spacedoohicky "everyone that takes that term" Can you give an example of a single person self identifying as "far left", using your definition? How is harrassing people going into abortion clinics, standing around with big pictures of the latest term abortion they could find, promoting people as murderers, sending death threats, sometimes even killing people, etc., not psychological warfare? What is the pro-choice side doing, exactly?
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@josephmassaro Isn't that the way things were supposed to be set up, in the US, so that if the government turns corrupt, the people could remove it, and start over, just like the founding fathers had? Americans kind of screwed the pooch on that one, though, by having a massive standing army, a military armed police force, and no militias, except for racist psychos.
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@EspenAleksLarsen Am I right?
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@reav3rtm How can someone be more, or less, competent at irrelevancy?
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@J A "Centrist", in the US, is right of centre, in most other developed countries, and not all that enlightened.
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What do you think of the Schengen Area?
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