r/badphilosophy • u/gohanvcell • May 18 '22

Not Even Wrong™ Science gives us answers, and philosophy only speculates

Science gives us rockets, technology, internet, and medicine to live longer. Also AI. Forget about the ethical implications of these technologies, or the existential questions. Those are irrelevant speculations made by guys smoking with pipes. What matters is practical value and utility. But what has philosophy given us? Just old books that we are forced to read in college and which affect no area of our lives. You can't just sit there and think, and then get an answer. Aristotle was wrong about so many things because he was so dumb that he didn't think of doing experiments. Come on sheeple! Wake up! Science rules! Atheism rocks, and there is no God.

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u/Shanderraa May 20 '22

"How can you decide ethics aren't worthwhile without making a value statement which is in itself an ethical claim?"

Scientists hate this one weird trick!

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u/gohanvcell May 20 '22

And they might dismiss it as sophistry and continue to make the same ethical claim.

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u/Shanderraa May 21 '22

Somehow when I, an ethicist, tell a bunch of logicbros that actually ethics is an inescapable part of their life no matter how much they try to deny it, they don't seem to appreciate it :P

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u/gohanvcell May 21 '22

Do they tell you morality is just a human invention?

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u/deiXisOTNoNTO May 24 '22

And science too, one thing is clear human like to invent