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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 Importance of Moral Philosophy

Joan Rivers: Is there any case where you need the what is natural criterion to decide what is moral? She says it's too easy to rationalize based on some of these collectivist type arguments for why it's okay to harm people. Rivers: We can do better than utilitarianism and deontology virtue ethics, which are all good but don't go far enough. "I'm not I'm not a moral philosopher by training," she adds.

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