Science isn't supposed to make you feel good, it doesn't deal with our social concepts. There is no objective morality because people have different ideals and cultures. If you want to talk about philosophy, that is fine, but it's not an empirical science. You can't ask people to put science on an even playing field with studies like philosophy or theology, because they do not connect in any real way. It's a false equivalence.
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[quote]Science isn't supposed to make you feel good, it doesn't deal with our social concepts.[/quote]Apparently.[quote]There is no objective morality because people have different ideals and cultures.[/quote]Most cultures accept a common sense of morality. Albeit metaphysical, the similarities are present. Those groups that actually differ from the common sense of ethics are only small, liberal minorities.[quote]If you want to talk about philosophy, that is fine, but it's not an empirical science.[/quote]Exactly.[quote]You can't ask people to put science on an even playing field with studies like philosophy or theology because they do not connect in any real way. It's a false equivalence.[/quote]However, they're some non-evident truths that people accept today than some per say "evident" truths that are said to be accepted by science. For example, lying is bad, but it accomplishes the objective of the person who committed it. Who is anyone to say that what was done was wrong? That's why we have adopted standards concerning human ethics. When we talk about the theory of gravity, yes, it's a science dabbling in reality, but it isn't as easy to persuade primitive minds with the proof unless the evidence is soon discovered and hypothesized by those individuals. That's why it is better to research information than to simple tell someone since the person can only act off of the trust in another person's word instead of off of the experience in his research.
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Groups that differ from popular majority morality are only small, liberal minorities? Your myopia and bias is showing. Radical Islam represents a very small percentage of Muslims worldwide, and there is absolutely nothing liberal about them. Or in my own state, we have a small community of people who left the Mormon church once polygamy was disavowed, because they believed in a stricter, more traditional version of what Mormonism was founded on. They are basically Amish with multiple wives. Definitely not liberal.