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originally posted by: gosseyn
Here is a video in which Harris talks about suicide bombings in the muslim world, among other topics.
Basically he is standing on moral high grounds regarding suicide bombings, and he choose that as example of why religions are bad and particularly martyrdom in islam.
My objections to him are the following :
Sam Harris seems to be ok with bombing as long as it is not suicide bombing, what a weird philosophical argument. Let's just say he is ok with the western way of killing people. Does he think that if suicide bombing were formally prohibited by islam that there would be no bombing at all ? Does Harris want to bomb people in order to prevent them from doing suicide bombing ? From my philosophical point of view, I would say that it is more honourable to die with your victim than to bomb people with drones from far away comfortably seated in your living room with your kids playing around. Are "atheist bombs" better in some sense than "religious bombs" ?
Regardless, it would be better if there were no bombs at all, and for me religion is outdated software.
Sam Harris seems to be ok with bombing as long as it is not suicide bombing, what a weird philosophical argument. Let's just say he is ok with the western way of killing people. Does he think that if suicide bombing were formally prohibited by islam that there would be no bombing at all ? Does Harris want to bomb people in order to prevent them from doing suicide bombing ? From my philosophical point of view, I would say that it is more honourable to die with your victim than to bomb people with drones from far away comfortably seated in your living room with your kids playing around. Are "atheist bombs" better in some sense than "religious bombs" ?
originally posted by: gosseyn
Basically he is standing on moral high grounds regarding suicide bombings, and he choose that as example of why religions are bad and particularly martyrdom in islam.
Sam Harris seems to be ok with bombing as long as it is not suicide bombing, what a weird philosophical argument. Let's just say he is ok with the western way of killing people.