Comments on: Can Society Make Ethical Decisions Without Science? https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/17/can-society-make-ethical-decis/ Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:32:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: abb3w https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/17/can-society-make-ethical-decis/#comment-532710 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:32:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/17/can-society-make-ethical-decis/#comment-532710 Best and current knowledge is itself based on cruder forms of science.

One can make decisions of ethics without science; however, the choices resulting from such methods tend on balance to be less moral in consequences than those made with science helping.

]]> By: Art https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/17/can-society-make-ethical-decis/#comment-532709 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:33:23 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/17/can-society-make-ethical-decis/#comment-532709 Yes, society can make ethical decisions without science. Best and current knowledge predates science and even with science society still can only work with the current state of knowledge and understanding.

That said, it has to be noted that the quality of ethical decision making cannot improve without science of some sort. And a lack of improvement, a failure to understanding the imperfection of the ethical decisions based current knowledge and/or a desire to improve, is, in its self, a lack of ethics.

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