Originally Posted by
Frank Kneeland
Well said. I like your contributions. I was just making tea and thinking that we needed a definition of "right and wrong" and you took the words out of my mouth.
Would anyone have an objection to defining "right" as provable using the scientific method?
This means based on testable quantities using control groups, random sampling, duplicate-able results, etc...
As far as I know the disturbing reality is that the most popular beliefs tend to be the least provable.
Therefore, the "most people" argument tends to refute rather than support "most arguments"-- there are exceptions.
In the end the deciding factor is often whether or not the truth is a happy truth.
No, I was not talking about the Singer system at this time.