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

  1. But debates are like that. They are contests. That's why I prefer conversations to debates.
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  2. There's a thing called statistics which is like having millions of friends.
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  3.  @Jimbo5900  Australia is WAY less free than the USA as we saw during covid. Even less than most of Europe.
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  4. Yeah this episode is pretty weak.
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  5. 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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  6.  @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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  7.  @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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  8.  @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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  9. Did you actually listen to the podcast? Perhaps you should.
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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. Here in Bavaria we have Franconians living with us mostly peacefully. I myself am a half-Franconian.
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  13. You're playing dumb. You know exactly what the point is.
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  14. No and yes. He is not more knowledgable, but he thinks better.
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  15. 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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  16. He is wrong, but he is not "pseudo-intellectual".
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  17. 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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  18.  @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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22.  @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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  23. Not misunderstood, those people know exactly what they are doing. They are willfully sacrificing their stated principles to group belonging.
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  24. You aren't and you completely misunderstand what energy is and why would that make you happy.
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  25. Abolishing democracy to trigger the libs.
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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29.  @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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  30. Ok, but if only current consciousness counts you could sinply wait for the baby to sleep before killing it.
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  31.  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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  32. 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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  33.  @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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  34. 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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  35. By waiting until you wisen up.
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  36. Do you think people are easier or harder to enslave when they have guns?
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  37.  @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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  38. 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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  39. 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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  40. @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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  41.  @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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  42. He is very smart. That's how he comes up with all of those excuses.
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  43.  @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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  44. At least that means that all of the time arguing with people on youtube and reddit wasn't wasted.
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  45.  @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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  46.  @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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  47. Antifa is an explicitly socialist/communist franchise.
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  48. 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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  49.  @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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  50.  @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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