Sam Harris on using reason to build our morality
The TED Interview
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The Double Standard of Morality
There are several double standards here that people observe by default which are the source of what I would argue is our confusion about morality. So one double standard is that even the most hard-headed scientists use a totally different standard. And so when you find another group behaving by a totally divergent moral code, a group like ISIS say it's best to kill apostates and blasphemers. We're not in touch with reality when we're moralizing. We're just apes with preferences.
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