Monday, April 12, 2010

MORAL CONFUSION IN THE NAME OF 'SCIENCE'




Its quite hard to let science enter the moral sphere, the idea of 'thought police', restriction and answer-ability scare people. But how are we ever going to bring potency to humanity's moral Jihad if we do not introduce some sort of universalism and reject the answer-less Post Modern rationale. Otherwise all of this moral bullshit is nothing but sand running through fingers; impotent, cowardly, hypothetical and incomplete. 

I think that the biggest flaw in this guys idea is that he does not present moral values as a formula, in that he does not identify that universal truths must be as dynamic and ever changing as the eras of human civilization, otherwise science would just be re-writing the bible and in another 2000 years half of these truths will be just as un-applicable to modern day life as the bible is now. 

His illustration of the Dali Lama and ted Bundy is ingenious though, because it clearly illustrates the need to: 

a) take into account the freedoms of others and not just your own 
b) to nurture life over anything else 
c) always promote the penultimate aim of abolishing misery 

as necessary and decisive indicators that there should in fact be a right and wrong, a relevant and an irrelevant. Otherwise society has the rationalization of a suicidal person.

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