Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "Sam Harris" channel.

  1. No.
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  2. I like Jordan until it comes to religion.
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  3. John sounds like he's sitting in an armchair wearing a tuxedo, sipping whiskey and smoking a cigar.
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  4. That's the scourge of religion. It makes the best of us into babbling fools.
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  5.  @slipknnnot  Precisely. No one wants to overthrow the constitution over fat people.
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  6.  @godlaughs  If you didn't think that what Philipp believes matters, you wouldn't have written that comment.
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  7. I would add blinding rage, but that's a good list.
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  8. As a non-American, Americans shouldn't just defend the 2nd amendment, but clarify what "the right to keep and bear arms" is to keep it from being encroached upon. Never give up your weapons and the worst time to give up your weapons is when others demand it.
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  9. You mean before you moved to the populist right? There was never a reason to believe that Sam would fall for someone like Trump.
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  10.  Evan Koch  Outlawing something doesn't mean you have to persecute everyone, who did it in the past. The British Empire even compensated former slave owners, rather than punishing them for what they had just declared illegal.
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  11. Well the USA is the oldest and most successful democracy so far. Many of the countries that are they allies now were forced by them to give up slavery or to adopt democracy.
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  12. Before I can observe a thought, it's already gone. All that's left is a feeling of resentment, mainly about my loud computer, but this, too, is elusive. I couldn't even feel happy or sad bringing up the memories. But I could already see the beginnings of awareness, of taking a step back.
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  13. Perhaps some alcohol or LSD. That should counter act your disorder.
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  14. So far these only make me frustrated about what I have not done. But I see the beginnings of awareness. My thoughts and feelings are hard to observe, they just vanish and reappear.
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  15. True, I find it quite impossible to observe my thoughts. Also some thoughts just vanish, but then reappear immediately.
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  16.  @vinniewedge  1. Your excuse doesn't work, because slaves aren't told to obey to escape disadvantages. They are told to sincerely subjugate themselves and honor their masters as they would Jesus Christ . I put that in bold anticipating your defense and you still chose to ignore it. 2. Do the commandments in the bible only apply at the time they are given? No. And you don't argue for that when it's a passage you like. When something is uncomfortable then it only applies at the time. 3. Was slavery good 2000 years ago? There is nothing in the bible condemning slavery, even cautiously. 4. The prophets and later Jesus and Paul condemned common practices constantly. Indeed the bible makes a point out of standing up for your beliefs even if they are extremely unpopular. To say that the authors of the bible had to support slavery, because it was popular, is downright insane.
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  17.  @cakipankerot6830  Is that all you have to say to your defense? You think that LETTING people VOLUNTARILY join a DEFENSE pact is an aggression? You are a total clown, a failed bully. "You let people seek defense against my aggression, that means you're the bad guy!" Your case is ridiculous in the highest degree.
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  18. You don't experience consciousness. Consciousness is the experience.
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  19. I like how they both never address their unstated assumption that people have a right to water without the natural consequence of water poisoning.
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  20. Different countries reacted differently well. Trump is the only Western leader that first denied that the virus was dangerous at all and then blamed the Chinese for his own inaction.
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  21.  @kenhiett5266  He shut down flights from Europe after the virus was already all over New York. That's like buying an alarm system while the burglar empties your house.
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  22. Who is the "establishment"?
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  23. If that's so, it's more than worth it. That's pretty much the point of the rule of law, the point of a constitution, the point of the separation of powers, the point of liberal democracy as a whole: you don't just overthrow everything bcs people died and you're mad. You don't build a totalitarian state just bcs you think it's safer. You don't give up fundamental freedoms to save lives. Liberal democracy among other things means that there are more important things than mere survival.
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  24. Same. My only problem now is thoughts that disagree with me. I hope future technology can get rid of those.
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  25. I'm as anti-theist as it gets, but that's just a dumb slogan.
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  26. It's not and they won't. The delusion that the world is somehow magically just is one of the most pernicious.
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  27. You voted for Trump, because you are fascist, then?
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  28. That's like never being in the water and concluding that you probably know how to swim from second hand accounts.
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  29.  @SeaTeaSnow  I'm rolling on the floor. I'm literally dying. This idiot actually thinks that cutting off baby penis skins is not the most just thing to do. How else does he appease his deity? What a moron!
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  30. They underszand the other better than most people understand themselves.
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  31.  @synthesizerneil  I, too, am a neurologist, who regularly reads and compares phd theses.
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  32. By the age of 60 you can own a battleship.
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  33. "Driving" isn't in the car either. The windows user interface is not in the computer.
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  34. If Trump hadn't been elected the hysterical left would have a much weaker position.
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  35.  @kenhiett5266  You are completely missing the point. The measures that helped reduce the impact of the virus elsewhere were mandatory masks and prohibiting large events. And again: Trump said HIMSELF that the virus was not a problem and then he accused China of delaying his response HIMSELF. The media didn't make him say that. He's lying his ass off at every opportunity.
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  36.  @kenhiett5266  Cool. We are not talking about any of those people though, but Trump in relationship to other Western leaders. Sweden decided against most restrictions, but that's just the point... they decided . They didn't pretend that the virus wasn't a problem and then blamed someone else for their own inaction.
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  37.  @slipknnnot  The USA defended Iraqi civilians. US soldiers risked their lives for individual Iraqi civilians that were abducted and threatened by other Iraqis.
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  38. Precisely. To say that people should be disarmed so they can't kill themselves is about as cruel as it gets.
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  39. Good, but I don't know what you mean with letting go of the reigns. With many things I can see an action coming from a mile away, the idea, planning, it being initiated. The "reigns" are very much in consciousness.
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  40. Is this supposed to be a joke? Nonsense like this is exactly what gives psychedelics a bad name.
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  41. Actually that is perfect, because it bothers regular gun owners, especially those practicing and shooting as a sport and it does absolutely nothing to bother spree killers, who can further be instrumentalized to take people's guns away.
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  42. Your thinking is severly stunted by superfluous vocabulary. At any moment your consciousness can be filled with suffering or pleasure. You want to increase the amount of moments filled with pleasure and make them more intense. There is no reason why happiness should "go". If you can feel orgasmic bliss for one microsecond, you can feel it always.
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  43. No matter how clear it is, ot does undermine your credibility if you praise some watch in the same tone of voice in which you just stated your political observations.
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  44.  @trenchtown69  Also disarmed before they got shot.
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  45. Peterson thinks he has inhereted the perfect lie.
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  46. Yeah, one thing is helpful, the other a blight on human existence and a great threat going forwards. Most religions just codify the most primitive misunderstandings of the mind. They actively prevent spiritual growth.
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  47. So when has the world started "burning" in your opinion?
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  48. I used to be a great admirer of Sam's intellectual output. The he changed the intro song of his podcast.
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  49. He is deep in Jung's butt.
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  50.  @donkeyrhomper  Not the case in Sweden or Italy. It's the case in countries, which early enacted countermeasures.
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  51. The government does go after it aggressively though.
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  52.  @peterhardie4151  There's no magical substance called "quality" attached to a work of art. Whether you like a song is just about you and the song.
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  53. You came here to tell us that rather than hearing someone's ideas, you are only interested in leaders that you can follow.
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  54. Handsome, popular and rich people tend to upgrade their wives once in a while.
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  55. By that infantile reasoning everything is subjective and the word subjective loses all meaning. Of course "someone somewhere disagrees" is not what people mean with subjective and if it was, there wouldn't be an entire branch of philosophy called meta ethics.
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  56.  @Jaylade  It's not provoking, it's childish. He's clearly completely unaware of any discourse on the topic and thinks he has perfect insight. Moreover, if anything, moral disagreements point at moral objectivity, not subjectivity. For people to disagree there has to be some objective truth to the matter. Islamists don't just say that they use the word "good" in a different way.
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  57.  @dm3199  I vote for a clown and no one is allowed to talk about it.
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  58. What does any of that have to do with consciousness?
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  59. Peterson should be taken seriously, but we should also make sure that what he defends is not Christianity - or any recongizable religion or god. He defends the words religion and god more than anything else.
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  60. Your choices are determined by prior causes. You describe pride, not compassion. What matters is how I act, not that it is me, who does it.
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  61. According to the bible you should kill your children for "disobeying" you. And you should kill strangers not out of necessity, but in order to take your stuff. Yes, killing many people of an enemy army does make you a hero in the ethical sense, because you're preventing all of the atrocities, you're fighting to prevent in the first place. You should let your judgment be guided less by cliches and more by compassion.
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  62.  @andyw6996  Sam blew Jordan's entire spiel out of the stratosphere with the ghost analogy.
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  63. Why? There was nothing in that podcast I didn't already know. The only controversial part was Sam's opinion on privacy, which he already formulated many years ago.
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  64.  @jimmy_xi9342  It's a clump of cells until birth... unless the parents want it, then it's a baby even if it's only four cells.
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  65. I think you are suffering from the delusion that if two people have a disagreement, both must be wrong. In fact only one has to be wrong. If I say that Canada is in North America and Peterson says it's in Africa, we should not find common ground. I should "win the argument" so to say. Although "winning the argument" is a silly way to express it.
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  66. Or he just hates Trump... like lots of people did even before he became president.
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  67. The opposite is the case. Compassion says nothing whatsoever about excusing evil actions or not fighting evil actors. Christian "love" is fully compatible with tolerating the worst suffering in innocents. You are commanded to "turn the other cheek" rather than to fight and slaves are commanded to obey their masters with sincerity of the same kind they would have towards Christ .
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  68.  @vinniewedge  Is that your way of admitting that the bible is morally abhorrent? Or is that your way of saying that you are as enthusiastically pro-slavery as the bible?
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  69.  @vinniewedge  You are better than than the bible. You are better than those ancient superstitions. You are better than the Rabbis, who codified the Torah in the Babylonian Exile and you are better than the early Christians, who codified the NT. You are under no obligation to defend any of this. You are always free to follow your heart and reject all of this vile nonsense. It is never too late.
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  70.  @kedrednael  According to whom? From what I've seen even at the height of the nuclear arms race, all of the nukes exploding at the same time, still wouldn't have raised enough dust to kill everyone.
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  71.  @kedrednael  I couldn't find where it said that it would lead to extinction. Still interesting, though.
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  72. You mean letting countries voluntarily join NATO to be secure against Russian invasions? Yeah, what a horrible aggression. You are such a clown...
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  73.  @cakipankerot6830  Are you for real? Destroyed by whom, you idiot?! You just argued against yourself and your beloved bald short guy.
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  74. Whether you agree with him or not, he might be the most lucid thinker in the world today.
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  75. Yeah, bcs if you're not looking for happiness, you are dead.
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  76. Perhaps your shit tastes like strawberries. You should try.
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  77. The probability of being attacked by someone stronger than you is WAY bigger than being in a school shooting. Especially if you're a woman.
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  78.  @mojoman2001  American rugby is correctly referred to as hand-egg.
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  79.  @pdcdesign9632  Those are actually completely irrelevant if you take the amendment literally. Why do you think they are relevant and how?
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  80. How does voting for someone, who is or acts dumb, help anything?
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  81. Who is not having what conversation?
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  82. When you read a book about happiness by a catholic, you really have a lot of time.
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  83. Same. I think they did a day or week suspension. There was basically no one willing to actually engage ones thoughts anyways. It was always insults, tagging their friends and then more insults to show off in front of those friends followed by blocking. Most people seemed perversely proud of creating their own bubble.
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  84. That's the most hilariously stupid comment I have ever read. Even before one recognizes that "contributing to the species" is completely meaningless.
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  85. It always was.
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  86. Yeah, it's not like there was anything new in the podcast either. The only controversial part was Sam's opinion on privacy, which he already formulated more than five years ago.
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  87. Word salad. What's "the mystery of life"?
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  88.  @romantum  Nothing. An additional experiencer is a superfluous concept.
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  89. It's not just that I can express myself in finding creative ways of telling someone that they are totally misinformed and unintelligent, it is also the knowledge that somewhere out there are real people so vastly inferior to me.
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  90.  @FeistyJackball  Not necessarily. Depends on whether "something" has to actually exist in this universe or only be possible.
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  91.  @CygnusEight  Firstly, yes you are terribly weak and rape is quite typical of primates, so I don't see how it makes the perpetrators less human. Secondly you giving up any sort of privacy will certainly not "eliminate" child sexual abuse. Whether it will even decrease it a little bit is questionable. You don't need facebook or amazon to share things online. Just an internet connection.
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  92. @Headspin3d Short-phobia doesn't have a place in my universe. Begone, bigot!
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  93.  @papajoeman23  Worse things happen literally every second.
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  94. He is one of the most successful public opinion havers. Would be kinda weird to change things up without good evidence. Also, I think you meant "sophomoric" and "audience".
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  95.  @elenagerhardy2636  I'm willing to sacrifice thousands of people, who commit suicide flippantly, for the one, who genuinely suffers and is better off dead. I'm completely against any measure that makes suicide harder.
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  96. And that he can't write.
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  97. Biology is to leftist ideologues what geology and meteorology is to ideologues on the right.
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  98. Not only that, but Peterson's god is several unrelated concepts.
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  99.  Chazz man  I like your father.
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  100. A debate is actually like a sports competition (not like WWE, that's a showmatch), but this was not a debate. It was a conversation.
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  101. But debates are like that. They are contests. That's why I prefer conversations to debates.
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  102. There's a thing called statistics which is like having millions of friends.
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  103.  @Jimbo5900  Australia is WAY less free than the USA as we saw during covid. Even less than most of Europe.
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  104. Yeah this episode is pretty weak.
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  105. Men are generally incapable of having abortions, which is a great injustice. If one sex can kill on a whim, so should the other.
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  106.  @tuntejaable  Your total lack of empathy with the victims of the riots is amazing. A cop killed someone and therefore cops should allow citizens to be harassed and threatened by a mob...
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  107.  @TuckFrump-AAB463  You denied any connection with Marxism. Being confronted with evidence to the contrary, you never admitted to being wrong, but just shifted the goalpost. Do you even notice what you are doing
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  108.  @littlehandsgivescovfefe4837  You're hilariously wrong and a 1min wikipedia research could have dispelled your misconceptions. Denmark is as "socialist" as it is fascist. Namely not at all.
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  109. Did you actually listen to the podcast? Perhaps you should.
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  110. Killing yourself must be quite difficult if even people with extensive military experience can't do it reliably. I agree with guy above, I think everyone with ptsd should try mdma.
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  111. Not being able to kill someone is being stripped of all rights? You rely on thousands of people for your sustainance, yet you deem yourself a "person".
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  112. Here in Bavaria we have Franconians living with us mostly peacefully. I myself am a half-Franconian.
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  113. You're playing dumb. You know exactly what the point is.
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  114. No and yes. He is not more knowledgable, but he thinks better.
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  115. Not sure who persuaded you of this, but no: doing good is just as much part of the English language as being good.
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  116. He is wrong, but he is not "pseudo-intellectual".
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  117. That's the dumbest shit I've heard in a long while. Not only would it not keep "praying" eyes away from your data, you wouldn't even know what data of you is being monitored. I'd rather have everything monitored than just a random selection I can't control.
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  118.  @615bla  What is "real" surveillance? 1/100 of my stuff leaking is worse than all of it leaking. At least in the latter case people don't get a distorted impression.
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  119. You can't surprise me with such a hard question. I'd take a million years for me to even define the word "so".
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  120. If Kennedy had spelled "coffee" as "covfefe" that would have been national news. That's not what happened with Trump though. Covfefe is a misspelling of "coverage" not "coffee".
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  121. You're totally lost in delusion if you think happiness is self interest. Happiness is impersonal. If happiness is all that matters, that's synonymous with universal love and compassion.
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  122.  @davegold  I don't wash my food, I'm a decade late on some vaccines and I repair stuff at home that I have no business repairing. But I don't force everyone else to make all of the same choices I do.
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  123. Not misunderstood, those people know exactly what they are doing. They are willfully sacrificing their stated principles to group belonging.
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  124. You aren't and you completely misunderstand what energy is and why would that make you happy.
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  125. Abolishing democracy to trigger the libs.
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  126. Who is "us"? Why draw the line there and not at you vs any other possible instance of consciousness. Consciousness seems to correspond to states of my brain, so it's natural to assume that other brains have corresponding consciousness. Also consciousness seems to be about whatever information is present or processed in a location. So I'd assume that places in which information is condensed might produce consciousness.
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  127. I guess it's natural to poop on the floor. People can control that easily. That's not the problem. The problem are floor-pooping movements.
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  128. Not being sad is a prerequisite of being happy. You seem to think that because historically stuff you needed to get out of trouble was accompanied by suffering means that suffering is inevitable. That that is incorrect is not just logically obvious but can be felt directly in meditation. If you are not suffering in this very moment, there is no reason why you should be suffering ever.
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  129.  @VoodooD0g  You clearly have never heard any criticism of religion. He never claimed that religions were invented on purpose. Your definition is so wrong and cynical that it makes me want to puke. You try to define religion as benevolent. Did you even notice that? A total failure to look intellectually honest. This is particularly disgusting, because in the real word people suffer from religion conserving the worst cultural memes.
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  130. Ok, but if only current consciousness counts you could sinply wait for the baby to sleep before killing it.
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  131.  Dawn of the Dad  I reject the notion that the world has become more peaceful mainly because of nuclear weapons, but your comment is just ridiculously. The wars that have taken place were not prevented? No shit?
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  132. The real problem is people trying to take other people's guns away and what needs to be done is to shoot those miscreants. >think that 50 million kids go to school every day knowing that its possible that they could be victims of school shootings Then give them guns. That makes school shootings impossible. Schools would become the least attractive targets for spree killings overnight.
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  133.  @jasonthomas6106  Mexico is a western liberal democracy. Also gun rights are part of liberal democracy. They just weren't correctly implemented by the people copying liberal democracy from the Americans.
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  134. Then French people do not understand the concept of time. If police could help you in the case of a home invasion then you could equally well bring an armada of a thousand interstellar battleships from the future. But that's not how time works. You have to work with what's available now and if you are confronted butt naked in your own home, the police isn't there.
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  135. By waiting until you wisen up.
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  136. Do you think people are easier or harder to enslave when they have guns?
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  137.  @DinosaurKale  No, you can't. Even if you somehow manage to kill all physicsists, the knowledge would still be spread far too wide on various devices, so smart people of coming generations could quickly pick up on it.
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  138. Reasonable gun control is like reasonable child fucking. Everyone should have all guns. Especially the mentally ill, since they are particularly vulnerable, and women and children.
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  139. While I completely disagree with Peterson, calling him "the dumb person's smart man" is just a silly cliche. You might as well call his mother fat.
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  140. @S Evans If you think Nietzsche is a profound thinker or a defender of religion, you've already committed intellectual suicide. Nietzsche was a madman, who justified his grandiouse, cruel romanticism with a lot of muddy thinking.
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  141.  @Tenorio74  Wow, that's really interesting. Does something similar happen when you're holding a shovel or broomstick or anything else that's good to hit with?
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  142. He is very smart. That's how he comes up with all of those excuses.
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  143.  @frenchfrog70  Those are a bunch of responses at once... The mere presence of religion doesn't imply that all actions are performed in order to appease a deity. I can believe in Zeus living on Mt Olympus and even sacrifice to him without making all of my actions about him.
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  144. At least that means that all of the time arguing with people on youtube and reddit wasn't wasted.
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  145.  @tuna5618  Are you unable to read? You act as if the amendment said "only militias can have guns". That's not in any way implied. Rather the first sentence of the amendment is completely irrelevant to what it ultimately prescribes.
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  146.  @austingoyne3039  "Well regulated" does mean well trained. Words sometimes have different meanings, especially in old-timey documents. The supreme court can read the English language and knows the historical context and the rest of the constitution and bill of rights and the different versions of the amendment and general legal conventions. They base their decision on all of that. You base your decision on your inability to read two lines without getting the meaning completely mangled.
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  147. Antifa is an explicitly socialist/communist franchise.
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  148. Yeah, that's a really stupid argument. By the same line of reasoning, you should be for the legalization of slavery, because illegal slavery would be more dangerous.
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  149.  @Spongi_NA  You've dug yourself in a hole with your pathetic distractions. You've identified what's legal with what's good. For you laws as they are are their own justification.
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  150.  @Spongi_NA  I don't. I think abortion is good in many scenarios. I think it's a horrible decision not to abort in some scenarios. What I object to is your insane distractions and your complete unwillingness to have a serious conversation about it. You argued that what's the law should remain the law. Read your own comments.
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  151.  @skulptor  "Trump is a leader. Not a politician." Authoritarianism, anti-intellectualism, demagoguery. Not necessarily fascist, that's why I asked.
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  152. Certainly not.
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  153. Just bcs someone's son is a pedophile serial killer doesn't mean they're a worse president than Trump.
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  154.  @neverhero3215  The title.
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  155. You should destroy the tornado/person, not just "get out of the way". But yes, realizing the absurdity of free will means you won't torture the tornado / person.
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  156. Weird, if I meditate or do LSD, I see more clearly how much all of that matters.
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  157.  @keirongillespie6913  I'm much more happy than I was in school where I was bullied. And I'm more happy now that I have a degree and a driver's license than before. And the more mindful I become in daily life, the greater the difference becomes. Having stuff and avoiding bad circumstances really matters.
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  158. I've never heard anyone say "congratulations to your clump of parasitic cells".
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  159. Firstly people don't call Peterson's speech word salad, because he uses those words. Secondly, I personally disagree with the notion that Peterson makes word salad. He just goes off topic, schizophrenically loses the distinction between seperate things. What he says does makes sense, it's just wrong and doesn't suffice to defend religion or god in any way.
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  160.  @gatherfeather3122  What a profoundly stupid view of nature. Do a lion and and antilope live in peace?
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  161. Squirrels are a bigger danger than nuclear weapons imo. They actually cause damage and deaths regularly.
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  162. You really think Biden would concede much?
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  163. It's not just Catholics. Most people are "pro life absolutists" on all topics, but this one. The hypocrisy is what's painful to me.
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  164.  @MawcDrums  You can consider yourself to be McDonalds, but if you don't sell Happy Meals, you aren't. Antifa has always been "radical", because Antifa is the street fighting department of the German communist party and groups taking inspiration from it.
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  165. The thing is that in my (and Sam's) understanding I AM the joy, not some entity that generates choices that then lead to joy. Or more precisely, when you're taking a shit, the entity doing the shitting and the experience of shitting are separate. You as the experience of reading this comment are the perception of shitting, not the producer of shit.
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  166. Most of the "woke" crowd is religious. Christian or Muslim in the main.
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  167. If you're "anti-racist" in the trademarked Kendian sense, you should be demonized. That's like being "anti-communist", but in the free-helicopter-ride sense.
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  168.  @TheMithridates  There's some middle aged fit people, who believed this, and died. It's a strange kind of arrogance. Being fat makes you more vulnerable to anything, but that doesn't mean you're immune by virtue of not being fat.
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  169. Are you for real? What's his first book about?
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  170.  @squarerootof2  Docking. Look it up. Sam ❤ Jordan
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  171. Precisely.
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  172. You think there'd be a robot in each house that shoots the biological equivalent of an EMP at any attacker?
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  173. They won't even raise their voice despite of fundamental disagreements of the highest importance. No way they'll raise their fists.
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  174. Well I'm European and I think you're a myopic prick. The 2nd Amendment is a very clever thing and if anything US Americans should work to secure it and make more definite what "the right to keep and bear arms" is.
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  175.  @costeris35  >How likely is that violent home invasion he uses as en excuse to be armed? It doesn't matter. You don't get to decide whether others are allowed to protect themselves. That is the great civilisatory achievement of the 2nd amendment. >I bet he lives in a well policed neighbourhood. If you think police protects you, you must have some problems with the concept of time. >Women that encounter violence are so often shot by their partners Men can kill their partners whether they have weapons or not. Women can only defend themselves with weapons. >having a gun in the house doesn’t level the playingfield for them either That statement is absurd just from a physics perspective. I don't know how you can say that and not immediately notice that you are grasping at straws. Being armed is without any doubt an egalitarian force. Without weapons the strong can do whatever they want with the weak. With weapons, a 30kg woman is on an even playing field with a 120kg man.
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  176.  @antonysims  >everywhere else in the world where gun ownership is severely restricted this would be happening....but it's not It does. I walk around half naked in public parks alone at midnight - most of my female friends wouldn't ever do that. >Very restrictive gun laws where I live and yet not once have I How common do you think violent crimes are? Most people in any place have never been subject to violent crime. >accosted by someone bigger and stronger and forced to do anything IF you were accosted then by something bigger and stronger. How tf should someone weaker force you to do sth? Unless... they have a weapon. That's why guns are an egalitarian force. They would allow a 14yo girl to rob you when otherwise she couldn't. And it allows you to resist the robbery by a 120kg man.
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  177.  @mikhaill5030  Yes, we are a dynasty of boddhisattvas holding open the gates of nirvana for Trump supporters.
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  178. He can and constantly is, because his position is clear.
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  179. Forgiveness is as stupid as hatred and then some.
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  180. I don't. In every single second worse things happen in nature. Being mad about particular events like this just makes you a hypocrit.
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  181. Yes, it was. Nothing changed about that.
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  182. Mud wrestling match between Peter's god and the Buddha.
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  183. What did he talk about with Peterson? Do you know?
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  184. What do you mean with "nanotechnology"? The kind of nano-assembler that can build itself from any material is impossible. Further biological weapons are both unreliable and hard to use without endangering yourself. It's much easier for terrorists to just use trucks and self-made explosives.
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  185. It's called freedom. The problem is that all drugs aren't legal yet, not that some guns are.
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  186.  @daniellove162  That number is BS. It's probably 3-5%, who have seen it. It's rather like saying that billions were affected by 9/11, because they've seen the towers fall on TV.
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  187.  @pineapplaplatypotato  Everyone does.
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  188. Pizzagate was complete nonsense.
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  189.  @vickishook9715  So you are "enraged" and suspicious of random people around you. Great.
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  190.  @vickishook9715  There was nothing new for me in that podcast and if there was, I'd have still responded to your comment in the same way. You are helping exactly no one by being angry and paranoid.
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  191.  Sablicious  Yeah confronting religion is a good first step.
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  192. I think it's good and it shouldn't be a right.
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  193.  @aliens4143  Then you've missed the point. The point of the video is the phenomenology of free will in particular or rather: the absence of any such feeling. That's different from analyzing what people mean with free will and showing it to be absurd or anti-causal logically.
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  194.  @geoffhart  Are smaller countries generally more free than larger ones? No. Nor does a national government mean that you no longer have a city council. What does change is that everyone's freedom can be protected globally, rather than just that of a few people, who happen to live in the correct place.
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  195. @Jirka Oh come one. The man clearly believes in his own bullshit. If he just wanted to get money from religious conservatives, he could defend Christianity directly, rather than just defending the words Christianity, religion and god by redefining them at will.
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  196. You don't "give" compassion. Having compassion is not something that impoverishes you - to the contrary it can help you out of destructive thought patterns.
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  197.  @Protolamna  True.
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  198. Yes, there is deciding and choosing. Those decisions and choices are determined by prior circumstances, such as conversations. You are making a mistake almost everyone makes when first thinking about this.
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  199. You mean they bombed people, who were murdering primarily other Muslims.
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  200. Why shouldn't they complain?
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  201.  @billlyons7024  What kind of mental disease is it when you don't care about something and conclude that others don't? Are you also incapable of grasping that other people have different knowledge from yours?
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  202. I never thought I could be envious of folks being carted off to Nazi death camps.
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  203. You don't have to. You choose to focus on school shootings in particular. If school shootings are all you care about, arm the kids. Voila, school shootings are no longer possible.
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  204.  @thedarknessthatcomesbefore4279  If you think spree killings warrant taking everyone's rights, you really have ZERO regard for liberty, democracy or the rule of law.
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  205. Lots of the things that can be done about this are actively prevented by the law. You could train a classifier for child sexual abuse, but it would need a very large ammount of such pictures and videos as input. You could try and entrap perpetrators, which is not possible if you have to remove their content, making them immediately aware that they've been caught. The problem with sacrificing privacy to make it easier to prevent cyber crime is that you can't build a backdoor that only select members of the state have access to. If the system has a weakness, it has a weakness that can be exploited by anyone.
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  206. Engage what in particular? It's easy to make vague accusations.
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  207.  @Ancor3  It's funny how strongly you assume that the twitter owners are perfect arbiters of truth. Why do we even have a LHC? We can simply ask the twitter CEO about the nature of the cosmos. Besides, Sam is accused of causing the deaths of muslims all the time.
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  208. Wrong. He has a nuanced view in opposition to the completely motivated thinking that denies the reality of religious motivation altogether.
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  209. What's bad about "regime change"? And why are you for tyranny "stability" if it's in the middle east? It's weird how democracy and freedom and human rights and all of that stuff suddenly loses its importance when it comes to people not living in Western countries.
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  210. Lol, no. "Values" arise as heuristics for my future happiness in different situations. What "value" is violated when I poke myself on a cactus? The one of not being in pain? Why does the value of not being in pain come before the simple avoidance of pain?
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  211. That's not how you solve problems. Ramming your head into a wall over and over again is not the best way to get rid off the wall. You have to look out for your head, too.
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  212. Anarcho Egoism?
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  213. The children wouldn't have to run away if you didn't take their guns.
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  214. I find it great to listen to specifically because of this. They disagree so enormously yet they are able to have a conversation.
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  215. How many times does the quran revel in descriptions of hell and then call it's god "merciful" directly after? Take a guess. You should, because you're using the word "Islamophobia" seriously.
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  216. Contentment is just a lower degree of happiness. If you can ever experience mind-blasting orgasmic pleasure, there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to do that all of the time.
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  217.  @TheKnowspicker  No. If that was the case he wpuld openly oppose religion.
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  218. Only that exchange probably didn't happen. Einstein (and many other people at the time) did however imagine apocalyptic consequences of nuclear weapons.
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  219.  @Tsax1949  Not really. Whoever survives, they are unlikely to pass on all of the other weapons lying around and going for spears. A gun doesn't starve to death, so they'll be around.
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  220. Wouldn't say so, but fairly improbable, especially in the long run.
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  221.  @royalzak2670  They have to be, so they can collect money from their fans.
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  222. It's social media when people talk about each other, but it's not when they talk to each other? That's just silly. Her article was posted on a blog. Articles about people existed long before "social media". If anything "social media" helped them to get into contact for this conversation.
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  223. Or armed.
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  224. From what I've seen the audience of Peterson and Harris respectively is extremely critical of them. While I completely disagree with Peterson, there is nothing resembling a "personality cult" around him. People are merely interested in what he has to say or they like that some smart person defends Christianity or the belief in gods (even if it's just in name, not in substance).
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  225. You interpret things into data that isn't there. You should address the arguments rather than szperficially glancing at redponses.
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  226. How so? If they are duped, they are duped by someone.
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  227. Sam can be quite lazily dismissive of places he deems to be insufficiently intellectual in some aggregate.
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  228. >would it occur to me that a so called bad guy with a gun would try and kill me or people around me Why "with a gun"? I take it that you're not a woman. Ask them how often they worry about bad guys without guns.
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  229. He's an author and podcast host. It's his job to do this.
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  230. Americans have a problem with obesity, so just get rid of food.
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  231. No, because love is often used in other ways such as romantic love.
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  232. Would you fix a lagging browser with a soldering iron? Before we can make hedonium, we need more indirect ways to create happiness.
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  233. Yeah it frustrates me that even Sam buys into this. When my father was my age there were actual Moaists among the students demanding the destruction of the West and there were actual Nazis (ex NSDAP) in important positions. And people were more at least as emotional in confrontations as today.
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  234. How does sth come to still be around?
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  235.  @SilverSurfer5150  No, Peterson doesn't believe in any gods. He just thinks it's good to pretend to. Religious apologists such as yourself should be far more concerned with Peterson trying to redefine your god than Harris confronting your believes directly.
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  236.  @SilverSurfer5150  If you think that you must be completely unable to look beyond appearances. Jordan is an atheist. The "God" he defends has little to do with the one you believe in.
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  237. He said he wants to invade countries to steal their resources and that he wants to torture people for fun. : |
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  238. I think this was interesting (when it was first uploaded). I'm not sure how correct he is, but it's still interesting.
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  239. What's the point in fighting over something everyone agrees on?
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  240. >Hasn't a huge proportion of mass shootings been carried out using assault rifles No. And the AR-15 is not an assault rifle. And the AR-15 is used bcs it's legal and there's plenty of alternatives.
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  241.  @elbryan9  Ok, but we also have to look at how effective those were.
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  242. No way. He's interesting, but when you do that regularly, you risk turning into Bill Maher or that guy who didn't know the moon caused the tides.
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  243. I don't understand what you don't understand, but a world in which everyone carries a gun all the time is a utopia. A 14yo girl can rob you just as well as a gang. You can fend off a 140kg man by yourself. Firearms are the ultimate equalizer.
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  244. Who is the "we" that controls twitter? People are talking about getting Sam banned for some of the same reasons he wants Trump banned. Now I'm ok with him being banned for consistency's sake, for doxing, etc. But that's clearly not what happened. The best way to address lies about the election is to talk about them in detail, not to call them "lies" over and over again.
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  245. Has that guy reached out to Sam?
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  246. "Intelligence" meaning woos me with references to literature.
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  247. Do you write code? An IDE allows me to easily what part of the program is responsible for an error. I can then fix the problem. Does that mean the piece of code has to have free will?
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  248. Like all catastrophes it would be adverse to some living things and beneficial to others.
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  249. If you don't like people talking about him, don't vote for him.
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  250. Those are different people holding those opinions.
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  251. ​ @susugam3004 "Left" is relative. And American twitter and universities are certainly more "left wing" than any large European parties.
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