Episode Transcript: #804 - Sam Harris
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The infamous Jamie double finger gun and we're live. How are you sir? Good to see you man.
Good to be back. You're looking healthy, looking fresh. I'm glad to hear it.
Well I stopped eating meat since I last saw you. I heard about that. I want to talk to you about that.
Yeah, and I don't know that it's correlating with health. Every time I worry about this out loud
I get hate mail from vegans and vegetarians who say stop. Yeah. I'm putting your bullshit on us.
Well, you they they don't like when you associate any negative consequences whatsoever with only eating vegetables
Yeah, it's a because it's essentially a cult
It's a wonderful cult of people that want to take care of animals and be nice to animals
But they're very tribal very tribal very cult like and if you say anything that's negative against vegans
They gang up I go to forums and I read the things they say they organize like little troll attacks and they make YouTube videos
It's kind of hilarious like from a psychological standpoint
Yeah, I mean, you know, obviously I don't want it to become a new religion or my my one religion
but I mean there is a moral high ground to the position that I find very attractive because I felt like a hypocrite as a meat eater now
Now, um, and I don't think this necessarily extends to someone like you who hunts and feels okay about hunting
Um, and I don't have an argument against hunting the way I do against factory farming or or
More more or less any of the way we get meat
Um, you know the the environmental implications of it, uh, but
It's um, so it's very captivating as a position and you feel like an asshole
Once you once you go far enough into the the inquiry
You feel like an asshole not being sensitive to these concerns and just