tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13617569.post5121582380373779346..comments2024-03-06T05:17:31.852-07:00Comments on Integral Options Cafe: Sam Harris - Death and the Present Momentwilliam harrymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06981478282688361274noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13617569.post-24631186495984983812012-07-08T15:01:35.180-07:002012-07-08T15:01:35.180-07:00"I struggle with my sense of moral inconsiste..."I struggle with my sense of moral inconsistency in his writings. It's hard for me to reconcile the man who believes in torture and racial profiling"<br /><br />Sam Harris holds, as an empirical fact, that religious profiling at airports - not en masse - will likely improve our well-being. <br /><br />As for torture, he holds that there it MAY be justified in some instances. <br /><br />HARRIS: "readers mistakenly conclude that I take a cavalier attitude toward the practice of torture. I do not. Nevertheless, I believe that there are extreme situations in which practices like “water-boarding” may not only be ethically justifiable, but ethically necessary"<br /><br />He is referring to LIMIT cases. It would be like saying I "believe in lying" because I think it is justified to lie to the nazi about hiding a jew... (I'm sorry for the awful, overused analogy, I'm in a hurry <3 )Dyami Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870083033404046530noreply@blogger.com