Questions For Dave Smith!
Hi everyone,
I’m excited to announce I will be imminently interviewing Dave Smith for the new season of The Illusion of Consensus podcast launching this week!
The structure of our conversation will be focused on the arguments and claims made by Douglas Murray and Sam Harris in their recent podcast conversation. They spoke about Dave’s approach and views for an extended period of time, as it relates to the deeper debates on misinformation and “expertise.”
Everyone will know by now this contentious discussion about what constitutes “expertise” was spurred by Dave’s viral debate with Douglas on JRE:
What questions do you have for Dave Smith?
Leave it in the comments below and I will hand-pick the most intriguing ones to integrate into our conversation with a shoutout to the commenter!
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Great guest, thank you! Agree completely on the expertise side of the debate, my question is more to clarify his actual underlying principles:
Gandhi famously said, sticking to his nonviolence philosophy, that the Jews should let the Nazis kill them - offer themselves to their murderers - rather than fight back. Is this your general philosophy - ie nonviolence no matter what? Or do you have more of a “just war” framework you view conflicts through? Considering innocent babies and bystanders, all made in God’s image, suffer and die brutally in all wars, how ought we defend against enemies?
Thank you!