AS147: Tommentary
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Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 22 June 2015
⏱️ 38 minutes
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It's with a heavy heart that I have to launch on another Tommentary. Pretty much every time there's a horrible massacre, there are a number of things to react to. Here's an article I talked about toward the end that was very interesting: http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/people-do-violence-because-their-moral-codes-demand-it/
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to |
| 0:33.6 | atheistsically speaking with your host Thomas Smith this is episode 147. |
| 0:38.4 | Well I'm just going to launch into commentary. You're going to be getting some commentary today. |
| 0:44.4 | Well, how many times are we going to go on with this? I mean, every time, guys, it's, every time |
| 0:58.5 | there's a giant shooting, there's more to say, and I just don't know it really is incredible how often these things happen. |
| 1:08.4 | It's almost like it's too often or that there's some, I don't know, there's some systemic problem we need to worry about. |
| 1:15.3 | I mean, it is quite often, alarmingly often. |
| 1:20.4 | I want to say, I want to get the basics said I really do I think it's actually |
| 1:28.0 | important so I apologize if anyone is bored by this but bear with me I want to cover the basics for a good reason so the basics are I |
| 1:38.2 | Cannot imagine how horrible this is for anyone who was in the area, knows anyone, family members, I can't even |
| 1:46.8 | imagine. And I can't even imagine what it would be like to be a member of a group of people who's been targeted this explicitly. |
| 1:57.0 | That man for I know that atheism is largely white males and I'm just going to assume that my audience is also largely white males. |
| 2:09.0 | I know it's not 100% but how can you imagine? I mean put yourself in that mindset of being a member of a group which was specifically targeted by this madman, this just terrible piece of garbage, and was murdered. |
| 2:28.0 | It just, what would that feel like? |
| 2:31.0 | That's awful. |
| 2:32.0 | I can't even imagine it I really my heart goes |
| 2:36.0 | out to anyone affected and and it's it's the saddest news there is I mean this this one |
| 2:41.9 | was particularly horrifying and I also want to |
| 2:45.8 | just say for the record for what little it might matter this was a racially motivated crime. No, duh. I mean, there's no, the, no-brainer, racially motivated |
| 2:58.8 | crime. This was a racist. And this was an act of terrorism. |
| 3:04.0 | Done. Easy as can be. |
| 3:05.0 | See how hard that is, Fox News or whoever else? |
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