THE GREATEST DEBT WE OWE SCIENCE
(important piece)
The discipline of science functions well and we respect it because it is the one in which we lie the least, prefer the least, and are biased toward outcomes the least.
But then again, the discipline of science merely forces us to tell the truth.
And we tell the truth in science because in science only truth has value to others.
The problem is, that in the rest of life, the value of telling the truth to others decreases rapidly.
There is no ‘ scientific method ‘, only the method of teaching ourselves to speak the truth by speaking truthfully. So the scientific method is misnamed – it is the moral method, which science evolved for its own purposes, precisely because only in science is truth of greater value than deception.
So it is the result of incentives that science produced the moral method that we mistakenly call the scientific method – but that method is applicable to all human thought speech and action, in all fields of human experience.
I have been struggling with making the point that the scientific method is consistent – identical -, in all walks of life, in all disciplines, in all matters of our existence – in every discourse and debate. And that there is nothing particularly interesting about science versus technology versus business, versus law = or any other area of life. The moral method remains constant. We may value different inputs and outputs of using this method, but that method remains consistent no matter what aspect of human cooperation we apply it in.
That is because there is no difference between moral thought speech and action in any other area of life.
Scientists discovered how to think, speak and act morally.
Everything else was a consequence of that discovery.
That is the greatest debt that we owe science.
TRUTH TELLING MATTERS – And there is but one means of speaking truthfully: operationally.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-10 03:07:00 UTC
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