Reciprocating Bill
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| Quote ("Rev Dr" Lenny Flank @ Aug. 25 2007,16:02) | | What science CAN'T do, though, is tell us whether abortion is wrong, or what I should do with a wallet full of money I find on the sidewalk, or whether brunettes are cuter than blondes. |
Vis wallets and abortions, I wonder if such questions are inaccessible to science not so much because they are "subjective" versus "objective," but rather because they are "normative" versus "objective." Answers to such questions are typically supplied by communities rather than individuals delving into subjective depths (as much as they like to believe otherwise), and the "free floating rationales" (per Dennett in "Breaking the Spell") for those normative responses often lie at the group/community level rather than the individual.
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