RE: I Used To Be A Fan But I Am Now Shocked, Disgusted And Appalled With Sam Harris
June 1, 2017 at 3:13 pm
(This post was last modified: June 1, 2017 at 3:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 1, 2017 at 2:54 pm)paulpablo Wrote: It's understandable that in some legal situations it makes someone complicit to not report a crime or drive a get away vehicle.He helped him broadcast them to a wide audience, and did nothing, in doing so, to suggest that he did not endorse those views. Her did, however, act in a way that suggests to some that he did, or that he didn;t oppose them all that much..or whatever...who knows.
But in a general non legal sense you could look at it either way.
What the person did that some people think was morally wrong is make a statement likely backed up by what people would think is an immoral opinion. Sam Harris didn't help him say the words or come up with the opinion.
Quote:A get away driver drives a vehicle that helps someone commit an illegal act.Right...but, again here in the us..the getaway driver doesn't always have to be party to that crime - or even know that it was committed. Just a comment on varying levels of complicity as some conceptualize them.
Quote:And in regards to not reporting an arson/illegal act, Sam Harris did the opposite. He's letting anyone who wants to watch the youtube video see and hear the words the man is saying that some people think is immoral.That sounds like some pretty weak spin. That;s not what he was doing..if he, as he claims, didn't even realize it was "about that".....so?
(honestly, can't the man just have had an insensitive moment...does he need to be condemned -or- absolved?)
Quote:I'm probably going to step away from this convo though because I don't have much interest in transexuals or the politics surrounding sexual identity, I think Sam Harris is usually quite boring, I don't know who Douglas Murray.
I'm not particularly invested in that either...but I do find people's assessments of complicity interesting.
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