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11: Sam Harris - Fighting with Friends

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Is That Your Model for What Was Going On?

The left at least paid lip service to the virtue of spreading the wealth around. But i think there's alsoa the all too common phenomenon of people motivated by actually good intentions, even incredibly noble intentions, causing a lot of chaos that they didn't intend. I don't think at what point did they grade into having consciously bad intentions, were consciously intentions intentions that were so mercenary as to be unethical. A pure case of this, for me, falls in another sector, not economy, but foreign policy. And we're morally culpable for not stopping a rape or a murder in progress and now we're on the other side of that curve. Like it's a thank-bill nation building

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