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Rationally Speaking #85 - Live From NECSS With Michael Shermer On the Role of Science in Morality

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The Problem With Science in Moral Decision-Making

"I think it's wrong to impose pain for arbitrary reasons," he says. "What empirical evidence would that be? That people feel- Don't want to be feeling pain and want to be felt pleasure?" He adds: If science allows me to do that, I should. But in the long run, they harm the society and they harm themselves."

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