My response:
link to my video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QKVUCQOfzA
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On Harrisian Veganism:
My video also talks about the risks involved with veganism. Harris is a new vegan. Parkinson's awaits this fledgling neuroscientist.
Veganism represents a f-ing holocaust for insects (!). Think of all the insects much must die to support a vegan diet. All those slave worker bees. All those other insects who're killed, just so that all those f-ing selfish vegans can chomp on a carrot! It's inhumane, or it's ininsectane, or some such thing.
Bottom line is that insects are animals too. Insects are slaves and they die so that vegans can eat their lunches.
Leftist denial of evolution and human nature. It's not a new thing, not at all. Harris is generally speaking in the traditional leftist camp - the mostly non-regressive camp I suppose. A classic liberal / somewhat leftist libertarian. But leftists can and do fall prey pitfalls of denialism.
Veganism is a fundamental dangerous denial of human evolutionary history. Small stomachs. Big brains. Cooked Meat is required. If our ancestors had been vegan, they never would have developed large brains. But the children of Harrisian Veganism are headed for a separate evolutionary track: Parkinson's & small hobbled brains. Rest In Peace (RIP) Robin Williams, a victim of Parkinson's and probably of veganism (same diff' apparently).
Further links, regarding veganism:
Leaders of the Vegan Movement Develop Parkinson's: Case Studies
https://www.drfuhrman.com/library/lack_of_DHA_linked_to_Parkinsons.aspx
10 Reasons Why I’ll Never Be Vegan
http://empoweredsustenance.com/is-vegan-healthy/
5 Reasons Why Vegan Diets May be a Bad Idea
https://authoritynutrition.com/top-5-reasons-why-vegan-diets-are-a-terrible-idea/
I’m not vegan anymore
http://alexandrajamieson.com/im-not-vegan-anymore/
10 vegan diet dangers
http://butternutrition.com/10-vegan-diet-dangers/
Angelina Jolie - The Vegan Diet that Almost Killed Her
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/09/17/angelina-jolie-says-vegan-diet-nearly-killed-her.aspx
Veganism Is Bad | Top 5 Reasons Why Vegan Diets Are A Terrible Idea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juObXMcjZRk
How the Ethical Argument for Veganism Fails and One Possible Way to Fix It
http://letthemeatmeat.com/post/1141998663/how-the-ethical-argument-for-veganism-fails-and
Cooking Up Bigger Brains - "Our hominid ancestors could never have eaten enough raw food to support our large, calorie-hungry brains, Richard Wrangham claims. The secret to our evolution, he says, is cooking..."
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cooking-up-bigger-brains/
Meat, Cooked Foods Needed for Early Human Brain
http://www.livescience.com/24875-meat-human-brain.html
Why Fire Makes Us Human - "Cooking may be more than just a part of your daily routine, it may be what made your brain as powerful as it is..."
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-fire-makes-us-human-72989884/?no-ist
Raw Food Not Enough to Feed Big Brains
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/10/raw-food-not-enough-feed-big-brains
Food For Thought: Meat-Based Diet Made Us Smarter
http://www.npr.org/2010/08/02/128849908/food-for-thought-meat-based-diet-made-us-smarter
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Joint Conclusion
By becoming vegan & touting that veganism is one pinnacle of morality on his Moral Landscape, Harris shows just exactly why there's problems with any "scientist" trying to define morality, particularly one with as many moral blind spots as Harris has.
A morality which actively denies human evolutionary history, while ignoring the horrors caused by the genital rape of young boys - that really is telling.
Keep your "morality" to yourself Mr. Harris. Your pinging & beeping MRI machine cannot & will not determine the morality of any human. The "logic" you use in determining exactly where the valleys and peaks are for human morality is fundamentally flawed.
I have been in general a fan of how exactly Mr. Harris takes apart the arguments of his opponents, and how he engages in dialogue with people. But when I find myself on the other side of his apparently sometimes very faulty arguments, I can now see more clearly how Mr. Harris can also be very blind & boring & pedantic & morally flawed & petty himself.
Human morality is largely determined by evolution. As per Steven Pinker there've been improvements over time. But veganism is a de facto cultistic religion which seeks to separate humans too far from our evolutionary roots. Religions which seek to mutilate the genitals of children also do this! A forced separation from our evolutionary roots. Abuse is abuse. And when we are forced to become separated too far from or evolutionary roots we as evolved human animals are hurt by such acts.
Sam Harris cannot get beyond his tepid Jewish upbringing.
ReplyDeleteLike many men circumcised in infancy, the pain and barbarity of routine infant circumcision does not worry them. In other words, they experience an empathy fail.
Many adult circumcised men have satisfying sex lives and jump to the conclusion that circumcision does not detract from sex. These overlook the fact that the adverse effects of circumcision on adult sexual pleasure and function, vary a lot by individual, partner and by time since the circumcision was performed. Some women are find with a given circumcised man, some are not. Some circumcised men are thrilled by sex when they are 25, and bored by it all when they are 55.
Quite a few American and Canadian women have revealed in social media that they've been with both kinds of men, and have discovered that circumcision materially detracts from their experience of PIV. This is the elephant in the room that will bring down the American Empire of the Bald Penis. When the typical women of childbearing age decides that circumcision detracts from women's pleasure, routine infant circumcision will quickly come to a halt in the USA. Mothers who disagree will not circumcise either, for fear that their sons will be laughed at in the locker room when they do sports, and in the bedroom when they try to date.