(Q&A)Noam Chomsky: Edward W Said Lecture: Violence and Dignity -- Reflections on the Middle East

Professor Noam Chomsky, delivering the 2013 Edward W Said Lecture: Violence and Dignity -- Reflections on the Middle East at Friends House in London on 18th March 2013. This edit features some of the question and answer session Professor Chomsky held at the end of the lecture.
The annual Edward W Said London Lecture is part of a series of cultural events and exhibitions programmed in association with The Mosaic Rooms (mosaicrooms.org) and the A M Qattan Foundation (qattanfoundation.org) to improve cultural and intellectual understanding of the Arabic world, and provide a platform for discourse and debate. The lecture is sponsored by The London Review of Books (lrb.co.uk).

[@ishinadish]

Thanks for the upload! Spot on!

[@nuqleo]

notable, como siempre

[@adamwatson7669]

Have you not seen his debate with Dershowitz? He was excellent. Highly recommended.

[@tsharmine]

Outstanding lectures by Prof. Noam Chomsky . I love all video .

[@jedaaa]

i think the full lecture is is on the right there in the sidebar, 1 hour and 3 mins ...

[@TradeJusticeNYMetro]

Read Tom Regan's The Case for Animal Rights for more on this topic.

[@rockoo2112]

Seems like the closest thing to debate i have seen from him since Buckley... he did well there. Why quit on a streak? Did he say the US should support Assad?

[@mrnolan91]

This is damn too short.

[@Tesla_Death_Ray]

Why do they ask him questions they must have heard him answer a million times?

[@Masaru_kun]

4:11 the really nerdy looking guy in the front-right after chomsky bashes IQ LOL

[@taja9696]

Huge thanks for the upload.very interesting and inspiring. About 10 years ago Chomsky's articles inspired me to do my Master thesis on Kosovo conflict. Though I since work in commercial law area, that had been a wonderful experience.. PS:I have absolutely nothing against gays, but the moderator made me laugh as hell.,

[@TradeJusticeNYMetro]

The logical conclusion of his position would be a moral community that deemed people with severe developmental delays, babies, and young children as having unequal rights to the rest of us, given that they do not have equal responsibilities to the rest of us.

[@drewrobertwinter7648]

Chomsky is one of my heroes but I wish he would read more animal liberation philosophy. I think he's a little confused about what 'animal rights' entails.

[@vega8935]

Y Marta?

[@Lurch0000]

am i the only one annoyed by the smile on the face of the guy behind Chomsky?

[@AymanB]

He was too twitchy and distracting.

[@moonstriker7350]

"we can't redistribute IQ, hieght, good looks..." Wrong. Actually we are pretty close to the stage where we can do it with height and good looks, maybe even talent. (surgery and genetic engineering) I agree on IQ.

[@AymanB]

"Wrong" "Pretty close" ... So, you meant "Right"?

[@TradeJusticeNYMetro]

Chomsky's reply to the first question demonstrates a failure to understand the basic moral arguments associated with the animal rights position. It's one thing to disagree with the philosophical arguments for animal rights and quite another to simultaneously be sneeringly dismissing and demonstrably ignorant on the topic - and on related topics in ethics. Look up moral agents vs. moral patients to see why this argument fails.