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It continues to amaze me how Sam Harris has managed to change my mind about nearly everything he talks about, be it gun control, scientific morality, or how we

• selmnoo 13y ago
  Did he actually manage to change your mind about scientific morality though? That seems to be the one area where he's met with a lot of resistance from the secular types. Specifically that science can quatify the morality of various actions and doings. This is what his last book is all about, "The Moral Landscape". He talks about it here on a TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/sam_harris_science_can_show_what_s_right.html http://www.ted.com/talks/sam_harris_science_can_show_what_s_... A lot of people are unconvinced, but he's definitely the guy to be making these arguments, considering he got his PhD in neuroscience.
  • ucarion 13y ago
    Just finished reading "The Moral Landscape" -- to me it's clear that morality is just as much a science as medecine or economics is.
• sgt101 13y ago
  Read it carefully, think about extrapolations and polemic. "no safe level" (as in oxygen?) Think about the assertion that this is a Moral issue.... Sure, if you are going to live forever, or if you can identify the childhood cancer as being caused by the fire, rather than f*ing bad luck or simply "things we don't understand". This is not the work of somebody trying to find the truth, or help others come to it.
  • jodrellblank 13y ago
    "Burning wood smoke has more carcinogens and mutagens than cigarette smoke". "Oh but if we can't directly link this specific cancer with a specific fire, then burning wood isn't harmful, it's all luck, and we can carry on with it without guilt". Is how your reply reads.