Here We Go Again
by tristero
Every 20 years or so, there comes along some damn fool who thinks a sensible morality can be derived from science. Sam Harris is the latest. You might ask: Is that the same Sam Harris who wrote In Defense of Torture? Yeah, that’s him.
For reasons I don’t quite understand, people I respect, like PZ Myers, take Harris seriously enough to argue with him. I won’t. Suffice it to say that there is something genuinely demented about this strange but all-too-common urge to ground a theory of morality in a non-human reality.
There lie monsters.