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[Closed] Arguing without thinking - Ben Affleck gets cross

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I largely agree with Sam Harris on this, playing the race card seems odd.


 
Posted : 07/10/2014 4:08 pm
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Just to reassure you that it wasn't a totally wasted post- I watched this 🙂

"Islam is the motherlode of bad ideas". Went off Harris at that.


 
Posted : 07/10/2014 6:17 pm
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I'm not going to sit through all that, but I did see a pretty competent and thoughtful rebuttal of what Bill Maher said and of the media's massive oversimplification of "Islamic countries" on the [i]Media Matters For America[/i] FB feed:

Worth a watch


 
Posted : 07/10/2014 6:41 pm
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Bats came across as blustery, unreasoned and rude.

I recommend he read The End of Faith by Harris - think critically and rejoin the conversation.


 
Posted : 07/10/2014 6:52 pm
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Please see if you can be arsed.

Sam Harris isn't making gross generalisations he just knows his subject very well.


 
Posted : 07/10/2014 6:56 pm
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Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms yo


 
Posted : 07/10/2014 7:03 pm
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Worth a watch

yes it was thanks


 
Posted : 07/10/2014 7:24 pm

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