You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.
Sam HarrisIt is also true that the less competent a person is in a given domain, the more he will tend to overestimate his abilities. This often produces an ugly marriage of confidence and ignorance that is very difficult to correct for.
Sam HarrisIt is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.
Sam HarrisAll civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth.
Sam HarrisWe read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another of Godโs teachings on morality: if a man discovers on his wedding night that his bride is not a virgin, he must stone her to death on her fatherโs doorstep (Deuteronomy 22:13-21).
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