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It's immoral to teach your kids anti-science truth or co-science truth. There is one truth, scientific truth, and you should pause before beginning the process

It's immoral to teach your kids anti-science truth or co-science truth. There is one truth, scientific truth, and you should pause before beginning the process of teaching your kid that there are optional, comfort based co-science truths. Having said that, it's neat reader.

gwd 7y ago
> It's immoral to teach your kids anti-science truth or co-science truth. You mean "co-science" truths such as... morality? Or to take it one step at a time: * You have proposed a moral precept. * By attempting to apply it to people who clearly disagree with it, you imply that this moral precept is an objective truth -- that like physics and math, it applies to everyone whether they like it or not (as opposed to personal preferences or conventions such as whether to drive on the right or left-hand side of the road) * But science itself does not deal in moral precepts. Therefore, the moral precept you propose would count as "co-science". * So if you teach your kids any morality, then you are violating the moral precept you propose.
- ubertaco 7y ago
  One step further: the moral precept proposed violates itself, if it's ever applied, by virtue of being a moral precept (and thus being a "co-science" truth claim).
camjohnson26 7y ago
There’s plenty of unsupported beliefs that the hacker news community pushes that can be just as dangerous and that come from an over reliance on science. Teaching religion is no different than teaching that the universe may be part of a simulation, or that extra terrestrials probably exist, or that AGI is a real problem that they should fear. Faith is anything you can’t directly validate and nobody has a perfectly rational basis for all their beliefs, it’s not possible.
irrational 7y ago
Its immoral not to teach your kids religious truth in addition to scientific truth, IMHO. At our dinner table we read the scriptures with the kids and have family prayer, but we also do stuff like watch videos of rocket launches and talk about various science topics.

gwd 7y ago

> It's immoral to teach your kids anti-science truth or co-science truth. You mean "co-science" truths such as... morality? Or to take it one step at a time: * You have proposed a moral precept. * By attempting to apply it to people who clearly disagree with it, you imply that this moral precept is an objective truth -- that like physics and math, it applies to everyone whether they like it or not (as opposed to personal preferences or conventions such as whether to drive on the right or left-hand side of the road) * But science itself does not deal in moral precepts. Therefore, the moral precept you propose would count as "co-science". * So if you teach your kids any morality, then you are violating the moral precept you propose.

ubertaco 7y ago
One step further: the moral precept proposed violates itself, if it's ever applied, by virtue of being a moral precept (and thus being a "co-science" truth claim).

camjohnson26 7y ago

There’s plenty of unsupported beliefs that the hacker news community pushes that can be just as dangerous and that come from an over reliance on science. Teaching religion is no different than teaching that the universe may be part of a simulation, or that extra terrestrials probably exist, or that AGI is a real problem that they should fear. Faith is anything you can’t directly validate and nobody has a perfectly rational basis for all their beliefs, it’s not possible.

irrational 7y ago

Its immoral not to teach your kids religious truth in addition to scientific truth, IMHO. At our dinner table we read the scriptures with the kids and have family prayer, but we also do stuff like watch videos of rocket launches and talk about various science topics.