Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and "veganism"
http://www.salon.com/2016/01/09/new_...moral_leaders/
I am getting pretty damned tired of reading of Harris described as a "neruoscientist.". In fact, for that matter, I'm getting damned tired of him being described as a "philosopher," too. He has a Ph.D in neuroscience (which shows up as a misspelled word, for what it's worth), but he never worked in the field beyond obtaining his degree and he never taught it. As far as "philosopher" goes, he took an undergraduate degree in it. Big effing deal. I took a few philosophy courses as an undergraduate, too. I think Harris is, at best, a pop philosopher. He's a pretty smart guy, to be sure, but he has never undertaken the serious long-term - and SUPERVISED - study that I think a person needs in order to be taken seriously as a philosopher. For what it's worth, I think he's kind of an arrogant know-it-all - someone suffering from smartest-boy-in-the-room syndrome. I think a lot of the same can be said about Dawkins. He's now a professional nag; not really active as a biologist. Anyway, neither nag, Harris nor Dawkins, can make a compelling case for "veganism." They can't even make a case for vegetarianism as a response to the alleged horrors of so-called "factory farming," a stupid pejorative term with as little concrete meaning as "assault weapon." |
Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and "veganism"
2016-01-12, Rudy Canoza wrote:
> > Anyway, neither nag, Harris nor Dawkins, can make a compelling case for > "veganism." They can't even make a case for vegetarianism as a response > to the alleged horrors of so-called "factory farming," a stupid > pejorative term with as little concrete meaning as "assault weapon." The fact that it still exists is a perfectly logical case against it. Get educated and get *plonk*ed. -- :q! |
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