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palsh7 OP t1_j5d7u5t wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Professor Martha C. Nussbaum on Vulnerability, Politics, and Moral Worth with Sam Harris by palsh7

I expected a higher quality of commentary and criticism on this sub.

Huh.

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marhide t1_j5d9qad wrote

You must be new then.

Sam Harris has long been considered guilty of wrongthink by the exact kind of people who populate American philosophy departments and this subreddit.

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palsh7 OP t1_j5dkkja wrote

... although it's better than the response of /r/psychology, which was to make a weird comment about Jordan Peterson in a thread in which Sam was interviewing an entirely different Psychiatry Professor from Harvard.

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palsh7 OP t1_j5dk67w wrote

I don't doubt that Sam has pissed off a lot of people on the left and right of the political and philosophical spectrum. I still would have thought a [wannabe] philosopher would have a more thoughtful way of saying "Fuck this guy I have a tertiary knowledge of."

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marhide t1_j5dl7qx wrote

I disagree with him about some things and agree with him about some things, but he’s thoughtful and articulate, and I always learn something from listening to him and his guests.

Surely nobody disagrees with him about everything, so it puzzles and annoys me that there are people here who think he should be completely absent from the subreddit just because he believes some things that other people don’t believe. It’s so childish and intolerant, but unfortunately that’s the direction western civil society is going.

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