Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Russell Brand SCHOOLS Sam Harris On Every Subject (Video)" video.
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@helluvastart Like I said, according to himself.
"It's thought that science can help us get what we value, but it can never tell us what we ought to value."
So, if we pick our own subjective definition of "well being", like Sam does, then science can help us achieve that goal. End of "thesis". He never actually makes it beyond what he says is already a given.
His "analogies" are moronic.
Take his chess "analogy". Rules of chess are analogous to laws, not morality. To get rules for a game, first you have to subjectively decide to make them up and then subjectivity decide to play that game. There's no science telling you that "you ought to play chess". Even if you do subjectively choose to play, there's nothing saying it's objectively wrong to lose, if you want to say lose to your child, or something.
His "healthy" and "unhealthy" "analogy" is equally moronic. Those terms don't include oughts. Eating Big Macs may be "unhealthy", but so what? That only matters if I subjectively care about being healthy. Skydiving may be "unhealthy", because it increases your chance of dying but, again, so what? People enjoy skydiving. Comparing terms that don't include oughts to terms that do (moral: how you ought to behave; immoral: how you ought not behave) is completely idiotic.
Harris is a moron.
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