Sam Harris: Can we ever be right about right and wrong? (2/2)

Can we ever be right about right and wrong? Sam Harris states that findings in neuroscience and psychology will soon provide an objective framework for morality.

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Beyond Belief 2008
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[mayaclay]

Heroin is NOT conductive to human happiness in consequentialism. It LEADS to terrible health and death.

He is not talking about temporary highs here. Temporary highs and drug abuse is NOT human well being. THINK before you speak.

[johnnyd101]

wow a lot of negative comments guess sam is right people are too stupid to realise that morality is something scientific

[Khyrid]

@lalaurentide Wow, oh my fucking god. Do you have any idea what a retarded fucking comment you just made? It may be the stupidest thing I ever read. I'll try to explain this to you;

So few people understand morality correctly so the world is a fucked up place. I'm talking about a few people understanding ONLY, that MEANS that most people don't understand. So I was talking about most people. You may have to read my comment a few times to get it, shit for brains.

[lalaurentide]

@Khyrid - Yeah, the world is what it is because of a minority not its majority, you really thought this true dumbass, did you?

[xxxHYPNOTISTxxx]

Yeah, man. It sounds like a groundbreaking & revolutionizing undertaking of perhaps unequaled importance. So at what level are you in your research? Are you asking for money here? Funding to conduct your research? I'd like to hear how you propose to organize and conduct these studies. Hey.. I'm sold. Yeah. Let's do it. Now.... HOW? Set it up. Stop talking about it (unless you're trying to raise money for it) and goddamn DO IT already.

[Khyrid]

A small minority of Atheist who are a small minority of people to begin with understand like Sam does about morality, and that's why the world is so fucked up.

The rest of the atheist are hippy liberal asshats who defend Islam like it's their job.

[etherform66]

@ElasticGiraffe - an attitude of angry damnation, as expressed so often toward developments in modern psycho-awareness, is a far cry from intelligent criticism. Even in the wisest and best-informed, damnation is a sorry business, and in the half-informed, it is quite shameful.

[ElasticGiraffe]

I wonder what natural observations or scientific experiments revealed that "general human happiness" is the highest good which all people are absolutely obliged to strive for. Too many atheists today dismiss and ignore postmodernism's devastating critique of modernism's unquestioning faith in science and naive Enlightenment optimism.

And I swear, Sam Harris and Ben Stiller are the same person...

[SirDarkStar]

@mayaclay This is very Wrong. W/Clean needles, pure&safe Heroin, safe administration, and proper food&shelter there would be almost NO deaths from Heroin. We need to Legalize TREATMENT for those people, I'm not saying it should be street legal.

PLEASE Find and Read *actual* scientific studies(use google scholar), not popular drivel because these myths are killing people Every day.

[poolerboy0077]

@vitallogic why's that?

[vitallogic]

Sam Harris is brain dead