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If a church and religious scripture are used for policy and governance, how is that not a government?

https://www.sciencealert.com/self-driving-cars-may-soon-be-making-moral-decisions-like-humans

Absolutely not, I definitely wouldn't ask people or trust their moral compasses. Slavery and genocide are great examples of why not. The whole point is to not ask anyone but base morals on neutral...

Of course there are grey areas, but like I said, there's plenty of questions where the differences between two options are clear as day. Happiness is hard to measure, for sure, suffering is a little...

I agree that there are grey areas, but I'd argue that in majority of cases there are quite clear objective verifiable rights and wrongs.



Ok let's try. First, a crime has taken place and we...

How I see it is that science is a tool. With homo sapiens wielding it circa 2020, no, we most likely can not exhaustively and precisely quantify and measure those. Still, I'm sure we could make...

I think it's fairly clear that there's some things in old folks' cultural wisdom and religious teachings that may be applicable today, just as there's a large amount that absolutely isn't. While our...

^Agreed. Our subconscious is every bit as much a part of "us" as our consciousness, I feel this talk of free will is just semantics.