Sam Harris’s Pathological and Dangerous Trump-Based Consequentialism (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_440)

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🗓️ 18 August 2022

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0:00.0	Hi everybody this is Gad's ad I was just heading out to work on my forthcoming book
0:08.0	but was alerted to a recent appearance by Sam Harris on trigonometry and people were obviously tagging me
0:20.8	and alerting me because of some of the positions he was taking regarding
0:24.1	Trump etc.
0:26.7	And so I decided to put out a Twitter thread which since some of you may not follow me on social media, I thought I would read it here
0:35.8	for you.
0:36.8	So here we go.
0:38.8	Historically I've always liked and respected Sam Harris. I have no personal beef with him. We probably agree on 95% of issues.
0:51.0	However, his Trump hatred is off-putting because it perfectly captures what happens
0:57.6	to a parasitized mind infected with blind hatred. Rationality dies.
1:04.0	Temperance dies.
1:06.0	Proportionality dies.
1:08.0	Logic dies.
1:10.0	Reason dies.
1:12.0	I explained to Sam when I appeared on his show how perfectly
1:16.8	rational human beings could apply specific decision rules in choosing to
1:22.3	vote for Trump.
1:24.0	Over the years I have repeatedly explained that whilst Trump has countless personal faults that are truly grotesque.
1:33.0	In a democracy founded on the ontological and non-viable first principles,
1:40.0	we can never set these aside for any reason.
1:47.0	Tyrants have utilized the quote existential urgency argument to engage in horrifying acts throughout history in the exact manner
1:59.6	that Sam is willing to set aside foundational principles because he believes that Trump is a quote
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