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#11 — Shouldering the Burden of History

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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I think the problem of collateral damage is a huge one. I don't think we should overestimate the number of people who become radicalized as a result of our bombs being dropped. But what's more of concern to me is that certain ideas, if merely accepted, create a condition for a total repudiation of the kinds of values we need humanity to embrace. We can't just live on islands of tolerance where we then are forced to interact with and suffer our poorest boarders with genuinely intolerant mediaeval commitments. So we need to spread this world wide. It it's a big problem. i feel like we have dealt with islam as much as we we need to at the moment

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