It was a disagreement over absolutes and orders of magnitude. To be honest with you, as much as I like Harris, foreign policy isn't my thing. I don't know why Harris thought Chomsky would come around to his way of thinking, so I skimmed through their e-mail exchange, and haven't given it any thought since.

We're all going to die. Most probably alone, and we won't know when, where, why, or how it will happen. I have better things to do with my time