I'm a "follower" of @SamHarrisOrg and Christopher Hitchens and I loathe the AltRight. As do most of the Harris & Hitchens fans I know. @ContraPoints is over-generalisng here to an almost bigoted extent.https://twitter.com/MeaningLifeTV/status/1002360142753648640 …
There we go. That's what he points out. People can't rebut his thought experiment. They are afraid to consider it. They can say that it's not useful because the problem of getting bad information is paramount but they can't refute it ethically.
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No, I've considered it, it's dumb and pointless. It presents a scenario that doesn't exist in the real world. When do tortures know what the victim knows, that they won't lie under torture, and whether what they're told is true? It's childish sophistry.
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'This thought experiment is not useful' is a valid response.
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That would be my response, then.
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Excellent. That is much better than saying he is justifying torture and is evil.
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