Comments by "" (@HigherPlanes) on "Science can answer moral questions - Sam Harris" video.

  1. Morals are costumes, and not the measure of perfection. 200 years ago it was moral to buy a human being. Our goals should be to create ethics. In Greek, ethos is the attendance to some kind of perfection, very different than morality. Morality is used as a club to grind down the dependent. And we can never subject our masters to the moral rules they inflict on us.
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  2. Someone gives you a moral rule, first thing to do is examine not the moral rule, but the exception. Who is not bound by that rule. Who gets to do the exact opposite. It will always be those in power. That is why moral rules exist. Any thinker who tries to apply universal moral rules is considered to be insane, because the purpose of universal morality is the exception, the violation.
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  3. It sounds Monty Pythonish now that you mention it.
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  4. Science has led humanity into a blind alley
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  5. ​ @itninvestigate  It's something I stole from Terence McKenna. I think it was in reference to this quote, "We are asked by science to believe that the entire universe sprang from nothingness, and at a single point and for no discernible reason. This notion is the limit case for credulity. In other words, if you can believe this, you can believe anything.”
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  6. I find the doctors and the sages, Have differ' d in all climes and ages, And two in fifty scarce agree, On what is pure morality.
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  7. That's brilliant. Now I feel the urge to have a beer
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