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RE: Scientific Morality! It's about time!
July 27, 2013 at 12:05 am
(July 26, 2013 at 8:37 pm)apophenia Wrote:
Troll or tard. It makes no difference.
Of course!
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RE: Scientific Morality! It's about time!
July 28, 2013 at 11:35 am
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A few days back I gave this guy a kudos point or 2, but now He has spoiled. The Curse of the Golden Flower is still quite an entertaining movie though.
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RE: Scientific Morality! It's about time!
August 8, 2013 at 3:41 am
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(August 1, 2013 at 3:15 pm)tokutter Wrote: [/b][/color] (July 25, 2013 at 11:31 am)The Germans are coming Wrote: Whos is "we" and can you show who`s braging?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDd-GXkMrJs
IRON MAIDEN RULES!!!!!!
where are my headphones
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Well, Judging from the looks of things, you are a bit swollen by to much attention.
In China we are a lot less provocative. Funny thing is that we mostly produce goods on western demand. Even our shoe sizes are not much bigger than a no. 7 so next time you see a shoe bigger than that you can know it was produced due to western demand. We like things smaller.
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RE: Scientific Morality! It's about time!
August 8, 2013 at 2:01 pm
I read Harris's The Moral Landscape, and it contained interesting points and information. However, Harris thinks he has gotten from 'is' to 'ought', and he hasn't. Science is great for helping us gain what we value. It can even tell us what it would be useful to value if we want to gain a particular good. But it can't tell us what we should want. It can tell us that most of us want to live, and it can tell us how to live longer, it can even explain why most of us want to live...but it can't explain why we SHOULD want to live. When it comes to morality, we still can't find deeper ground for it than 'oughts'. From science we can get 'hows'.