Nature has a quality, which is benevolent and will retaliate of we attack it.
There is a similarity between scientific claims and morality, or ethics. It is true that an apple will fall to the ground, it is also true that free trade results in beneficial outcomes, or at least is not harmful. This is a (discovered) universal truth common to all Societies. It is a moral truth that taxes are aggressive.
Just as science is able to deduce claims about nature, so too are we able to make statements about 'morality' which are testable. For example, theft is morally false, whereas charity is morally true, or at least not morally false, to mean not yet falsified. Charity, voluntaryism and free trade has not yet been falsified on moral terms.
To be scientifically true describes the behaviour of the universe under observation; it is true that ice floats. Does ice float? Yes. Is theft? Negative. Theft is not so much a bad idea, or wrong so much as it is false, not true, it has been falsified and shown not to work. Socialism doesn't work. Punching people doesn't work, generally, universally.
Being aggressive doesn't work.
Crime doesn't pay...
Saturday, 27 February 2010
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