Sam harris: If you see consequences the way i do, they reach into everything. And that is the measure of whether something is moving in the right direction or the wrong direction. When you say you deserve your beat down, i really think you are implicitly thinking about and feeling the consequences of being the sort of person who could let yourself off the hook for that kind of a negligence. But there is still a true moral problem about being aloneinit on a desert island,. The questionof whether or not it's permissible to master bates - like what you're allowed to put in your spank bank.