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I love to see people talking about how we develop our morals, and whether science can determine moral values.
I don't know about that, but the process of developing a sense of morality can look like the scientific method. 1/5 @roderickgraham @StrangelEdweird @jay_shapiro
I don't know about that, but the process of developing a sense of morality can look like the scientific method. 1/5 @roderickgraham @StrangelEdweird @jay_shapiro
We start with our assumptions about what is/isn't moral, and if you're a dogmatic thinker the process begins and ends there. For the more open-minded, those assumptions can be treated like a hypothesis. 2/5
Our social interactions and conversations are like little experiments that validate or confound our assumptions. They're unintentional, imperfect experiments and there are many ways for them to go wrong. 3/5
Then there's a moral system that includes beliefs, the way we treat people based on those beliefs, how that makes them feel, how they treat us based on those feelings and their own beliefs, how that makes us feel, and on and on.. 4/5
Like everything else human, it's not a perfect system, but it's somehow gotten us this far. 5/5
