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Comment author: [deleted] 07 October 2010 12:24:28PM 3 points [-]

That was exactly my point.

A coherent vision for the human race that happens to be truly the best thing is something you will feel is your duty to put into action. In fact, it would be your duty.

I suspect that Vladimir doesn't like Harris because his examples make him a conventional moderate liberal.

Harris is trying to prove that SCIENCE! implies that we all must be conventional moderate liberals. The first part of that sentence (the "SCIENCE" part) is kind of shoddy. So what we're left with is "We all must be conventional moderate liberals." As a conventional moderate liberal, I AM BEHIND THIS ALL THE WAY.