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Yeah, exactly. Science can tell you how to get a physical result, but when you're making public policy, human happiness and morality matter just as much, and ha
by hannasanarion 5y ago
Yeah, exactly. Science can tell you how to get a physical result, but when you're making public policy, human happiness and morality matter just as much, and happiness and morality are political.
Policy makers need to balance the countable mathematical goals with the uncountable moral and political goals, and Hume's Guillotine tells us there is no calculus that can tell you the right balance.