Sam Harris on using reason to build our morality
The TED Interview
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Building Morality Out of Reason and Science
If you're on a desert island, the ethics of your living don't come into play because there's no other conscious system that can be affected by what you do. A moral system is the rules by which we should treat each other or not treat each other. We live in a universe where conscious minds have a range of conscious states. And some of these states are better than others. Some are sublimely rapturous and filled with beauty and apparent meaning. The worst possible misery for everyone is bad. But every other state of the universe is better.
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