Which morality? Whose? Regarding what?

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Which morality? Whose? Regarding what?

Bowser — 4/27/2008 11:16:50 PM (archived)

I know it shouldn't be guided by religion, as the Bush Administration has tried.

I know it shouldn't be guided by what might inconvenience me, as Conservatives try.

But I don't know how morality would guide science.

Arf

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Should science be guided by morality? (n/t) - Jody - 4/27/2008 11:06:17 PM
- I am a stem cell research advocate - Jody - 4/29/2008 1:57:18 AM
  - So, really is Bush. - Bowser - 4/29/2008 5:23:24 PM
    - ...and I will be more than happy to research your stem...awoka woka (n/t) - Jody - 4/29/2008 8:04:37 PM
      - Just stay out of his genes (n/t) - ARRELL - 4/30/2008 6:32:31 PM
        
        No DNA swapping! (n/t) - Tony - 5/1/2008 7:29:54 PM
      - What're you celling? (n/t) - Bowser - 4/29/2008 8:18:13 PM
        
        proper stimulation (n/t) - Jody - 4/29/2008 9:36:29 PM
        
        Don't you mean stem-ulation? (n/t) - ER - 4/30/2008 12:25:59 PM
        
        Damn! I wish I had thought of that! (n/t) - Jody - 4/30/2008 3:29:51 PM
        
        You didn't? What WERE you thinking? :-) (n/t) - Bowser - 4/30/2008 7:47:53 PM
- Eugenics is science guided by morality, but not many support the idea. - Lee - 4/28/2008 5:48:28 PM
  - re: Eugenics is science guided by morality, but not many support the idea. - gbaikie - 4/29/2008 2:05:27 AM
    - "Killing a fewer people for the sake of theoretical many is immoral. Limiting the happiness of a fewer people for the sake of a theoretical many, is immoral. " - ARRELL - 4/30/2008 8:08:53 PM
      - re: "Killing a fewer people for the sake of theoretical many is immoral. Limiting the happiness of a fewer people for the sake of a theoretical many, is immoral. " - gbaikie - 4/30/2008 11:51:59 PM
    - "I would be happy to kill any scientist or doctor...", anyone missing the irony here....? - ARRELL - 4/29/2008 1:18:48 PM
      - Eugenics occurs everyday in this country. - Lee - 4/29/2008 8:31:27 PM
      - re: "I would be happy to kill any scientist or doctor...", anyone missing the irony here....? - gbaikie - 4/29/2008 7:04:58 PM
        
        "I would be happy to kill any scientist or doctor" .... "No, I wouldn't be happy "to kill any scientist or doctor..."" - ARRELL - 4/30/2008 9:17:01 PM
        
        re: "I would be happy to kill any scientist or doctor" .... "No, I wouldn't be happy "to kill any scientist or doctor..."" - gbaikie - 5/1/2008 1:34:59 AM
        
        Apparently YOU are the ONLY one that missed the fundamental contradictions in your post... - ARRELL - 5/1/2008 1:55:27 AM
        
        re: Apparently YOU are the ONLY one that missed the fundamental contradictions in your post... - gbaikie - 5/1/2008 3:39:15 AM
        
        re: Apparently YOU are the ONLY one that missed the fundamental contradictions in your post... - ARRELL - 5/2/2008 7:49:08 AM
        
        Post by Herb removed. - moderite podrock - 5/2/2008 7:50:26 PM
      - Word substitution exercise--reductio ad adsurdum - ER - 4/29/2008 2:48:44 PM
        
        re: Word substitution exercise--reductio ad adsurdum - gbaikie - 4/29/2008 7:28:08 PM
        
        I think "All the above posts [ER and ARRELL] are perfect examples of..." - alcaray - 4/29/2008 8:03:05 PM
        
        *giggle* (n/t) - Jody - 4/29/2008 8:06:14 PM
        
        re: More Irony - Yeti - 4/29/2008 4:30:13 PM
- AU, contraire. Morality should be guided by science... - nick hoffman - 4/28/2008 11:51:35 AM
  - Good morality IS science. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/30/2008 12:01:47 AM
  - Nice! I like that (n/t) - McFly - 4/29/2008 9:09:38 PM
  - re: AU, contraire. Morality should be guided by science... - gbaikie - 4/29/2008 1:34:08 AM
    - "Name one" - ARRELL - 4/29/2008 1:23:04 PM
  - Excellent point. And indeed, sometimes it is. - Bowser - 4/28/2008 5:08:26 PM
- Science itself? No. - Mary Anne - 4/28/2008 4:28:13 AM
- Science should not be guided by morality. - ER - 4/27/2008 11:59:45 PM
- Which morality? Whose? Regarding what? - Bowser - 4/27/2008 11:16:50 PM
- And: Should morality be guided by science? - podrock - 4/27/2008 11:14:58 PM

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