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WHICH way should the balance swing? Assuming that we want to maintain a coherent ethical position on these matters, this appears to be a circumstance of forced choice: if we are willing to drop bombs, or even risk that pistol rounds might go astray, we should be willing to torture a certain class of criminal suspects and military prisoners; if we are unwilling to torture, we should be unwilling to wage modern war.
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Sam Harris |
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Knowing what a person believes on a certain subject is not identical to knowing how that person thinks.
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Sam Harris |
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Tim LaHaye
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Sam Harris |
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The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable.
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Sam Harris |
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If premarital sex is a sin, who is the victim?
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Sam Harris |
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Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.
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Sam Harris |
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You are happily being misunderstood in your use of the word "God".
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Sam Harris |
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Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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Sam Harris |
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The self really is an illusion--and realizing this is the basis of spiritual life.
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Sam Harris |
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Your mind is all you truly have.
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Sam Harris |
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A hatred of infidels is arguably the central message of the Koran.
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Sam Harris |
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On one level, wisdom is nothing more than the ability to take your own advice.
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Sam Harris |
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Mistaking no answers in practice for no answers in principle is a great source of moral confusion.
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Sam Harris |
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You are either lucky in this department or you aren't--and you cannot make your own luck.
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Sam Harris |
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I do not choose to choose what I choose.
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Sam Harris |