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primitivescholar · 2393 days ago · link · · parent · post: Daniel DeNicola: You don’t have a right to believe whatever you want to
I think the real danger in this is that science often tries to claim that it is objective and logical. In truth, it's a human endeavor that is driven by all the biases and prejudices that humans carry with them. It's built to be error correcting so that wrong ideas are eventually overturned but that sometimes takes generations to sort out. I'd be perfectly fine with a "science of ethics" but I wouldn't be comfortable with the confidence that often comes with "science." Especially because ethics is much more slippery of a topic than most scientific subjects.