I favor gun reform, but was the Boston bombing also "about pressure cookers"? Focus on the cause, not the means.https://twitter.com/FareedZakaria/status/742060714894954497 …
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"There is a correlation between behavior and actions." Sam H. How regressives see it: he hates brown people.
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I think I agree with you Sam, but disagree with your pressure cooker example...
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Pressure cookers are not sold in explodable condition off-the-shelf.
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@EtTuCarl@SamHarrisOrg@SeanJasonWebb But what motivates one person to blow up a crowd while another one cooks up a nice batch of gumbo? -
Having an extra pressure cooker you'll never need?
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I have 16 of them.
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It's very difficult. People are using this event to support the beliefs they already hold.
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@SeanJasonWebb@EtTuCarl@SamHarrisOrg Welcome to every confirmation bias in the history of humankind. It's what we do. -
I understand that. But it is not at all comforting. How do we make progress?
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The individual didn't run around with a pressure cooker.
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Yes, but we can't be binary about this. It's a gun problem AND a religion problem.
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Can we agree that as a minority religion in America poor faith beliefs aren't as dangerous without weapons? 1/2
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@SeanJasonWebb@SamHarrisOrg It's the old rub: motive + opportunity. Motive- religion; opportunity- access to guns. Easy algorithm. -
It's plausible to apportion blame among gun laws, religious ideology, & hatred of gays in a...
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...different way that someone else does & still have a good defense of those %ages. Applying a...
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...low percentage of the blame to any of these seems less defensible.
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@PrismPodcast@SkepticalDDS@SeanJasonWebb We can't reduce access to religion or crazy, so which art of prob needs most focus? -
"Part" not "art" obviously. Maybe I'm too old for Twitter
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Some times pressure cookers kill you in case of malfunction. Not because you put...pic.twitter.com/TLDtbtaPEa
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