Sam Harris explains why Trump is a dangerous candidate.

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This video is both a little long, and a little old, but it does a great job of explaining what makes Donald Drumpf such a different beast to others that have run for President before. It also goes a long way to quash the idea that Clinton and Drumpf are equally bad.

It's way too long for me to put the whole transcript here, but I did want to write out the part where he talks about the ethical issues surrounding Drumpfs proposal to deport illegal immigrants.

The whole deportation topic starts at 21:22 

"The vast majority of these people are simply doing jobs that most Americans don't want to do. So now look around you, look at the nanny's and housekeepers you meet in the world. If you have young kids you might meet a lot of these people. Now imagine all of them who are undocumented rounded up and deported, inevitably at gunpoint. Because if you did most of these people don't want to go as most of them won't. You're talking about the threat of deadly force knocking on the door, that's what these operations would look like. We're talking about the people that bus tables at your favorite restaraunt, the guys you see working at a carwash, people who pick fruit. People by the millions who do productive work that Americans simply by and large do not want to do, and many of these people have kids who are American citizens.

So now we're talking about breaking up families. What does that look like? What does it look like to send the mother of a four year old American citizen back to Mexico? How many tens of thousands of people would fall into that precise situation under this policy and how many hundreds of thousands of stormtroopers would be required to enact it? We're talking about a terrifying authoritarian intrusion into our lives to bring this off. For the point of what? to get rid of rapists? No, to get rid of nannies."