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By Angela
It sounds like you are saying that he was wrong to float this particular idea, right? If that is so, who gets to decide who gets to float which ideas?
Weren't you earlier asking how to avoid the medieval book-burning mindset? I don't think he was irresponsible or malicious in floating this or any of his other ideas.
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I advocate a free forum of ideas. Let's just be
aware of the implications of ideas that come up, though, because
ideas go places. The person floating them may have nothing directly to do with where they go.
Dawkins himself is harmless, I think, but he could be the foundation of some very bad spin-offs.
Well, think of Social Darwinism, eugenics and Nazi Germany, for an example of bad spin-offs.
"Kill the dangerous people" has some very chilling historical precedents, and the mere suggestion of it raises red flags for me.
But Harris has every right to publish his ideas, IMO.
PS: Plenty of people have studied science, rejected the supernatural and not gone on to launch a vendetta against it. I speak as one who was very religious, then very anti-religious at one time.