Thursday, March 21, 2013

Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions


It was said that Science cannot answer things such as the meaning of life, meaning of death and so on. But this was also contradicted. It was said that science is truth and truth is always associated with what is going on in our lives. Regardless of religion or whatever we believe in.
                I actually had a hard time understanding what the speaker wanted to point out. Why does everything need to be afflicted with science? Cannot science stand alone when in the first place it should be independent because everyone believes that anything that science states are true. Science cannot say something true if it is not proven so why do we still need to argue if science can answer moral questions?
                Science may always prove things right but also it has its limitations. One of these limitations is that it cannot answer questions regarding the unimaginable phenomenon. Science already admitted that this thing is unexplainable and hard facts cannot be provided, so, what is the point of saying [non-stop] that science and morality has relations? Well, probably in some points they might have some relations but this is science. What science says is true [maybe] and we just needed to deal with it. Morality has its own principles that people who believe in it may have a different view in life. Science and Morality are two different things that explain different situations in life in separate point of views. These two give people options on what to believe in. morality is the part where we ask questions about our life and we almost all of the time find it so hard to answer. But that’s just how life is, if everything is put in front of us, where is the thrill of living it? We will just wait for answers to come and not find it ourselves.
                I even read the comments in the video; some of them were kind of contradicting and gave their opinions. This is just what I did, I wanted to point something out and share my own perception.

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