(July 14, 2015 at 1:56 am)Cato Wrote:(July 13, 2015 at 4:54 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: Typical of mediocre minds. What else can I say?
You can start by saying you're sorry.
Science can help you build a nuclear weapon, but science doesn't decide whether or not you should build it or if built whether or not you should deploy it. Science, by its very nature, does not assign value. This is the job of philosophy, whether you recognize it as such or not.
Harris and others that think otherwise are making a huge category mistake.
Sorry.
Science can tell you whether to build it or not by taking in all of the available information and following a simple guideline: general well-being.
You don't seem to understand what Harris means by science. Philosophy is somehow included - as far as it's helpful in establishing what morals we should pursue. As far as it's unnecessarily muddling the waters though, it's not welcome at all.