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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
One of the most obvious examples is the controversy caused by the statement "rape is perfectly natural", which was in one of his books. It was in the context of rebutting the naturalistic fallacy - the notion that if something is natural, it is somehow morally acceptable. His point was that something being "natural" tells you almost nothing about its moral content, and the example used was that many animals rape. This was then taken by some less than scrupulous critics and put into internet memes to suggest that Harris is pro-rape.
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The naturalism fallacy, along with the blank slate myth, is the religion of the left. When science and empiricism challenge either, it's science and empiricism that come under fire - or rather, the soul brave enough to present the science and empiricism.