Re: I May Be a Philosophy Noob, But...
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Umm, the entire science of Ethics would disagree with you.
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Unless you are referring to psychologists, sociologists and biologists studying ethical norms as determinants of observable phenomena, the study of ethics is not science. A biologist may tell you which norms are "good" relative to the end of gene proliferation. He may eventually accurately predict that a human with a certain set of norms will have a certain probability of having his genes survive relative to a human with a different set of norms. But no scientist can tell us why gene proliferation (or anything else) is good without making reference to some foundational arbitrary principle (like "god said so," "human survival is good," or "because I want to live").
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