Sam Harris comment on libertarianism

Comment found in Sam Harris - The End of Faith (Part 7-8) (watch?v=BJ5hz9B6HPs). If anyone knows of other comments on libertarianism by the "new atheists", please let me know. Thanks.

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[newageathey]

@onefodderunit well, I must say this is the end of our conversation. You continue to assert that atheism is a faith, even though you have been shown it is not. You ignore scientific evidence that I have presented to you.

Worst of all however, after doing a bit of research, it appears you are a holocaust denier. I wish I had this information before engaging in conversation with you. It is painfully obvious your mind works only on faith. No amount of evidence will ever open your eyes.

[LibertyServer]

@daobagua No, actually I wasn't referring to him. Does Noam Chomsky call himself a libertarian socialist? I was referring to a guy that calls himself Buddhagem on youtube. I said "apparently influential" because he is a prolific video maker/uploader, and there seem to be a lot discussions he's involved in, and so far as I can tell he has some followers.

[Faerlon123]

"If the liberty to own another human being is trumped by equal human rights, the liberty to own large amounts of property(at the expense of others) should also be trumped by equal human rights. The very idea of ownership contains the relativistic seeds of arbitrary authority; the arbitrary authority of the individual's right to do wrong."

Me: 1

Libertarianism: 0

Anyway, Sam is awesome.

[veganath]

We should respect other peoples right to the pursuit of happiness, the ONLY TIME WE SHOULD DRAW THE LINE is when the actions others take in their pursuit of happiness cause another conscious being to SUFFER UNNECESSARILY!

So I have no issue with consenting adults doing what they like in the privacy of their home.

It is the year 2012 there is no government or medical institute that mandates any necessity to kill & eat other animals, the moment these adult eat other people I draw the line!

[TheSaltyAdmiral]

@LibertyServer

You are talking about Noam Chomsky, am I right?:)

[SelfAware1]

@LibertyServer Libertarian Socialism: Where we are from the government AND free market capitalism. Where the democratic control of the people is taking to its logical conclusion.

[BadgeringTheWitness1]

@SelfAware1 Really? You seem to be caught in a bit of a performative contradiction here. You realize that there are starving people all across the globe, correct?  And assuming you are living above a subsistence level, you have the means to extinguish some of their suffering. Yet you choose not to.

I'm not saying it is moral to let people starve; hardly any libertarian says that. What they do say is that people shouldn't be enslaved in order to further a noble goal.

[onefodderunit]

@newageathey

Truth will make you free. The universe and consciousness are electric energy. Atoms are as well. Energy is infinite.

Only Atheists argue that life was never meant to be.

[onefodderunit]

@newageathey

You have demonstrated common Atheist dishonesty regarding your faith that life is a purposeless consequence of a mythical primordial chemical coincidence, and that inanimate matter materialized itself, then became creator of the universe and humanity.

[onefodderunit]

@newageathey

There is no example of matter self materializing. Where do you believe energy originates?

Atheism is the asinine faith that matter preceded and created consciousness.

Mind over matter.

There is no "scientific explanation" for the Atheist fantasy called Abiogensis. There isn't even a scientific theory. You cannot begin to rationalize your wish that inanimate matter turned itself into life.

Still waiting for you to explain how you imagine gravity creates galaxies.