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#16 — The Dark Side

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Ethics of Torture and Collateral Damage

i've seen the style ofa demonization applied to people on the right, people on the left. It's something that that individuals with tremendous confidence, both in the correctness of their views and the monstrosity of other views will kind of cheerfully engage him or her. And so my claim, i'm not defending this, but i'm sort of making a descriptive claim tthat those who do the demonization see themselves as in the same position that you and i would see ourselves when confronted with a holycost denier. They're not worth the time a day. The position i have on torture is precisely the position you get if you read the stanford encyclopaedia

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