I watched it just now. I’ve heard Harris say all that same stuff already.
Dillahunty and Harris want to place religious codes with some kind of new secular humanist/ atheist based morality. If that caught on their names would be cemented with names like Martin Luther and Voltaire and Hammurabi.
But it’s not going to catch on because of a few reasons. 1) Harris and Co. are out of their depth. Harris is fun but he’s a pop-philosopher. What Michio Kaku and Neil deGrasse Tyson are to science, Harris and Pederson are to philosophy. They’re celebrities but Harris really wants to be taken seriously. He’s fun. I like him but he and Dillahunty are not going to redefine morality under a new atheistic code. The well-being idea is vague to the point of near meaninglessness. Pederson was destroying him even at the most fundamental level that it’s not a given that life is preferable to death.
I recommend being wary of these guys, Lawrence Kraus included, who want to be these like atheist leaders. Kraus’ book, Universe from Nothing, was an embarrassing overreach.
Well-being as a concept to strive for is worthless unless it has applications. And it’s just dull to try to replace religion with a codified form of atheism. I have no sense of allegiance to other people who DON’T believe something. And Sam Harris sure as **** isn’t someone I see as a leader. I don’t want any kind of leader but least of all a guru for my atheism. I don’t need to be guided through not believing.
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