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It seems a lot of everyday things is a religion then. What if I hire a plumber to fix my sink and he says he need to replace a pipe to make it work. I know noth
by goto11 5y ago
It seems a lot of everyday things is a religion then. What if I hire a plumber to fix my sink and he says he need to replace a pipe to make it work. I know nothing about plumbing, so of course I trust the plumber even though I know any human make mistakes. Does that mean I have "elevated plumbers to a priesthood"?
It seems like almost any human interaction involves a level of trust - but if everything is "religion" then the word is meaningless.
- BoxOfRain 5y agoHardly, nobody's saying that you can use plumbing to completely ignore ethical philosophy as though moral principles can just drop out of logic if we derive them in a clever enough way, but lots of people seem to make this claim (intentionally or not) about science. There's even a word for this: Scientism. I wouldn't ask a plumber OR a scientist about making moral decisions as though they had some special advantage.
- goto11 5y agoCan you link to an example to someone making such a claim? Just so I'm sure I understand what you are referring to.