Sam Harris published a book called The End of Faith. He recieved letters from thosands of people on the continuum between faith and doubt. He noticed that both sides belive that science is powerless and can't answer ever the most important questions to life. Religious people tend of believe that there are right answers to the meaning of life. They get that meaning from god. However, people on the more secular side, do not belive that moral questions exist. In the United States, issues between conservative and liberals still come up between sbortion and gay marriages.
"Are there good and bad paths to take across this landscape of possibilities? Of course. In fact, there are, by definition, paths that lead to the worst misery and to the greatest fulfillment possible for these two people--given the structure of their brains, the immediate facts of their environment, and the laws of Nature. The underlying facts here are the facts of physics, chemistry and biology as they bear on the experience of the only two people in existence." This is a quote that is talking about how two people take different paths and can end up completely changing everything. It is all in the science. There are a lot of ethical questions that people have today. science of people flourishing may seem far away, but in order to find it and get to that point, people first must come to the conclusion that people can actually think that way.
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