Thread: TED: Sam Harris on science and morality

Originally Posted by gwahir

...and ultimately there is no real reason to maintain that Y viewpoint is more or less correct than another.

Do you have such a reason? Other than "Well, Y viewpoint just sounds right to me"?

Originally Posted by gwahir

moral relativism underlies a whole lot of modern thinking to the point that in many contexts it is treated as axiomatic.

It's treated as axiomatic because people have come to realize that morality is a purely social construct whose terms and ideas and starting assumptions don't reflect anything that actually exists in reality. No matter how self-evident it is to you that correct morality consists of whatever you think it consists of.