Is There a Contextual Legitimacy of Revenge?

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i sam harris: I think there might be certain fundamental moral truths where that's constituted by n everyone would agree, if they agreed on all the facts. But at the same time, i think that doesn't mean at all that there has to be a fact of the matter about the burka or female circumcision. So ges, good connected. It does not help that he's so, so conadocy about the way he says it.

Dave allows Tamler to rant about Sam Harris’s strawman attacks on moral relativism before launching into discussion about revenge, justice, True Grit, and Michael Dukakis. Though they differ on many issues, Tamler and Dave agree that it’s hard to satirize a guy with shiny boots.

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Sam Harris in the Huffington Post.

“Brute force is better with Nazis.”

The answer that launched a series of Bush presidencies.

“This ain’t no coon hunt.”

·Justice and Honor, Tamler’s Psychology Today blog post.

"Partial Desert" blog post at Flickers of Freedom.

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