Discussion of Beliefs and Why or Why Not Eat Babies
Cenk Uygur TYT: About your beliefs, right? So, you know,
Satanic Sam Harris – eat babies: why can’t we eat babies? What’s wrong with eating babies? If we’ve got extra babies around that nobody wants, why can’t we eat them, right?
Cenk Uygur TYT: Um, I get, I, I, I’m really worried about that line of thinking. I think that’s wrong, and I, and I’m, I think it’s a little dangerous. It sounds almost… That’s,
Sam Harris Imagining Circumstances vs Cenk Uygur Terrible Consequences of Eating Babies
Satanic Sam Harris – eat babies: you’re not imagining, you’re just, you’re just not imagining those circumstances.
Cenk Uygur TYT: No, no, no, no. So, let me, let me clarify, because this is important, right? So, it has such terrible consequences, both in terms of what we are doing to our captors, and what we are doing to our own morality, and the message we’re sending to the rest of the world about whether we’re good guys or bad guys, that I wouldn’t do it. I might not do it, even if I thought that it was absolutely going to work, but I don’t think it is. It’s very unlikely. Once you start, once you…
Satanic Sam Harris – eat babies: No, it’s not
Cenk Uygur TYT: Once you start. That’s why you’ve got to avoid those beginnings, to avoid those endings. They never start in little, and they remain little.
Satanic Sam Harris Creating Excuses to Eat Babies
Satanic Sam Harris – eat babies: You are ignoring, you are ignoring half of… You are ignoring half of my argument, which is, I’m arguing in most cases, it’s not psychopathology that…
Cenk Uygur TYT: Oh, no, no, no. This is a thing that seems like an incredible excuse for it. No, no,
Satanic Sam Harris – eat babies: Sam Harris can’t figure out why we can’t eat babies, right? It makes me look like an asshole.
Cenk Uygur TYT: So, we agree there. Now, the slight caveat to that, or very important caveat to that is that, hey, isn’t this a better way of life? I’ve got 72 girls in Vegas that are better, right?
Sam Harris Give Me an Ethical Argument Why No to Eat Babies
Satanic Sam Harris – eat babies: So, you seem to think I’m much more hawkish than I am. You and I might check the same boxes. The moment you accept, and again, many people don’t accept this for reasons I cannot fathom, but the moment you accept that certain people really do eat babies, death today would not be a bad thing for them. Why can’t we eat babies? Give me an ethical argument about why this is really, really wrong. Because just think about this. If I thought that my neighbor was torturing children in his basement, right? Then how are prisoners going to behave who just have all these animosities?
Cenk Uygur TYT: But Sam, clearly the right idea isn’t to kill all of them.
Satanic Sam Harris – eat babies: No, but I think you could. It’s possible. And this is sort of like why, whatever, you know.
