iirc, Sam Harris basically calls out moderates as pathetic extremist enablers. Don't call yourself something if you don't really believe.
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following the Quran strictly enough". This is the battle between westernized Muslims and the global Islamist trend, and the endpoint is ISIS
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The moderates might be able to redeem themselves somewhat if they create a new book and say "I believe in this (different) Quran, not
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that one", but as far as I know both the moderates and ISIS claim to believe in the same Quran...
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As a result ISIS can always claim they're pure and the moderates aren't.
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Similar purity spirals are happening on the left. Just start with these progressive assumptions: 1. Group differences are not innate
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2. Everyone can and should be cooperate to maximize short-term human utility "Incentives don't exist" (including incentives for
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defection) is somewhat built into #2. If you believe these you quickly get to open borders, diversity is a strength, and sending all your
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money to Africa. In case it's not obvious, the spiral goes easily from these assumptions to "helping the world's poorest increases utility
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the most", "if we're nice to people, they'll be nice to us", and "discrimination is mean, and we would all be better off if we didn't
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discriminate" to "group differences are strong evidence of systemic racism, etc" and "Africa sucks because of colonialism". And the next
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thing you know, you're at full cultural Marxism and making whitey pay for his ancestral sins.
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In contrast,the fundamental alt-right/NRx assumption is that Darwinian selection applies to everything,especially human behavior and culture
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