When I was reading the Weiss piece, I had doubts about that Harris anecdote. I'm glad someone is digging into it. https://twitter.com/jeffbercovici/status/994049416716664832 …
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Maybe when Farahany said "it would depend on why they were doing it" she too was thinking theoretically
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I mean, I can buy that some really out there type might have a take like that, but they're so out there that they're generally shunned by everyone but fellow believers who are actually very few and relatively powerless.
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Which is around the same time Harris began equivocating about torture.
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“Equivocate” torture? He posed a question about torture: what # of lives saved by gaining intel would justify torture? This is called philosophy.
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If you launch pre-emptive kills tens of millions of civilians, it'll be seen (rightly) as an attack on Muslim world. Most killed won't be Islamists.
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What is wrong with this quote? You don’t believe that actual scripture (which leads many to inflict terrible pain and suffering on others within their religion) should not be widely criticized?
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Jesus F’ing Christ. Guy has written TONS on the topic of religion and philosophy... is a top academic - you’re cherrypicking 1 paragraph from 2004 and are calling him an extremist??!!

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Sam wrote this book in response to 9/11 - where he asks - philosophically, what happens if a nuke falls in the hands of suicide bombers?? What do we do? If the left thinks this is extremism than maybe we do have a problem.
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