RE: Science vs Morality
July 3, 2014 at 11:03 pm
(This post was last modified: July 3, 2014 at 11:06 pm by Mozart Link.)
(July 3, 2014 at 10:43 pm)Irrational Wrote:What you feel about others is not reality. It's about what you feel about yourself in this case. For example, if you were to feel that a person with no pleasure has worth, since pleasure is worth as pleasure is what gives you a sense of worth in the first place, the fact of the matter is that since this person has no pleasure, then this person has no worth. Therefore, since inanimate objects also have no pleasure, that means they have no worth as well regardless of the fact that you feel they have worth. As for the serial killer, if he/she has more pleasure, then he/she would have more worth than the baby.(July 3, 2014 at 10:30 pm)Mozart Link Wrote: Because without pleasure, then you will have no sense of worth about yourself or others. And if others didn't have pleasure, they would have no sense of worth either.
But this is your opinion, not a scientific way of assessing one's worth.
What about in cases of objects? Are modern computers and classic handheld calculators of the same worth because they don't experience pleasure?
Is a baby loved by many of less worth than a serial killer?