https://www.reddit.com/r/samharris/comments/hhaxqu/comment/fw9yt98/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins - perhaps not coincidentally - he seems to think in weirdly deterministic ways. These guys never ever mention history, or culture or social context as influencing people's lives or thought or behavior. With race for instance, there's just a 'type' of person, some data from iq testing or whatever, and then all sorts of conclusions drawn. But it all occurs in a vacuum. They talk about Muslims in only the broadest terms, as if the Koran is a program for a computer and once implemented, that's how a person is going to run. I don't know if they're all on the spectrum, and no disrespect to my aspie brothers and sisters, but they all often come off totally clueless talking about human behavior, disconnected from the real world of human interaction. Yeah they...
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