On the profiling point, the analogy to bail is fallacious and unnecessary for the point they were trying to make. You could just take a hypothetical case where two potential airplane passengers were identical in every way and stipulate that the only difference was the tone of their skin and that the security team only had the resources to check one of them. In this case, using skin color as a discriminating factor would be justified if any one skin color were significantly over-represented in the people you are looking for, which in the case of international terrorism, there isn't one. Terrorists come in all colors. So I'm totally lost in how the authors think this is some kind of revealing point.

On the nuclear first strike point, these are old and tired criticisms that have been replied to.

Harris has no sense of how dangerous it is, given the strength of U.S. military power and the country’s track record of self-interested aggression, to produce thought experiments that equate “necessary and limited self-defensive action” with “erring on the side of genocidal nuclear warfare.”

I hope these snowflakes never need visit a philosophy seminar. The terror, the mayhem, of the dreaded thought experiment. This is, I'm sure I don't need to point out, basic political science. Asking exaggerated questions about edge case scenarios to examine what the conditions of our logic of state defense commits us to or not is common. These people need to read more if it surprises them.

The points about Israel and calling political dogma's religious are so boring and lazy they aren't worth responding to. But. sigh Sam does not support the Israeli occupations, he thinks it is bad, he also thinks Palestinian terrorism is bad. This is not hard to find out. He just thinks it is a separable question from the prevalence of particular tendencies of violence throughout the region.

On the point about support for violence, I think at this point the article is just trolling us, the percentages is you compare faith to faith in like circumstances are not similar. It's half that among Christians. And the rates in a few particular Muslim countries is outstandingly high. I feel like I'm grading a bad paper that just keeps going on and on.

Ugh I can't go on, I'll finish tomorrow.