The thing about knowledge (the empirical truth) is that it requires morality and practice most of the times, we may distinguish between this kind of knowledge from the theoretical kind of knowledge… active knowledge from inactive knowledge. When you know how harmful cigarettes are or how destructive to the environment fossil fuels are, you spontaneously shall react upon that information as long as you know it’s valid. So you quit smoking or stop global warming, and that’s what we can call: Scientific Morality. The scientific morality is a utilitarian morality established on the scientific truth, so it’s actually a matter of evidence, calculations and practice.
That’s why a lot of people chose to deny science and the scientific facts from the beginning, because they know very well that once they admitted the fact they couldn’t reject the consequences. It goes from smoking, drinking, eating through abortion, euthanasia, homosexuality, sex in general, racism, sexism… and not ending with religions, politics and social affairs. Science has been expanding and expanding since Copernicus and Newton, and probably all the questions the common human would ask there is a valid scientific answer for it. The difficulty of morality in the good old days that you don’t actually know the right thing to do most of the times and you can’t have the means to know the truth… and without true and false there is no right and wrong either.
That’s why people invented religions and gods, things made-up to prevent them from confusion and getting lost… to inspire them with the ultimate good based on the ultimate truth even in a fake way. But today we can know true and false, we can learn about true and false scientifically with evidences, experiments and calculations… but do we really want to know?! Probably not.
Because without knowing for sure we have the opportunity to explore, try, make mistakes, learn from our personal mistakes, have experience and grow up our personalities. But when we knew already what are true and false so what are right and wrong, we lost the joy of experience. When all the map have been already explored, when all the experiences have been made by our ancestors… life became dull and boring. Now all we can do as youth is to reject our elders’ experiences and the scientific facts, deny the authority of the truth and the mind… to begin from the start again, to make a space for our personal experiences and our personalities to grow. We can also celebrate modern technology, these are new stuff according to the old ages… and make wars of course, that sport can never fail of amusing us.
The only flaw in such absurd tactics is that our ancestors have not done everything yet, maybe they have explored all the lands on earth but not the depth of the ocean and definitely not the space. Actually the world have not been shrunk in our age but infinitely expanded, for every discovered island in the 16th and the 17th century there are billions of galaxies we haven’t discover yet. The new worlds now are not the Americas and Australia, but the moon, Mars, Titan and further earthlike planets.
Yes maybe the scientific morality is totalitarian, even the “free will” has been falsified logically before scientifically… but who said we can’t make mistakes even when we know for sure they are mistakes. Making mistakes is not only an act of learning (trial and error) but an act of personality also, we can chose few mistakes we want to commit and do them without feeling guilt (not much actually)… just because we want to, just to prove occasionally for ourselves that we are not slaves to facts or slaves to reason or slaves to our minds. We still can go insane, celebrate our personalities and do egoistic mistakes, but in a moderate reasonable way of course. We don’t have to suppress our EGOs, we are not robots working by declarative knowledge (true and false) and imperative knowledge (right and wrong) only… but we don’t have to be barbarians or suicidal to prove we are not.
And certainly we don’t have to deny reality, reject scientific facts or neglect consequences to justify our egoistic actions. First of all, the EGO doesn’t need justification from the mind or anyone… everyone can do stupid things just for fun while admitting it’s stupid. Secondly, the sane shall never spoil its ego or satisfy every urge… after a while boredom will kill the spoiled one. Limitation is good for the mind as for the personality (ego), it’s about balance… the mind don’t suppress the ego and the ego don’t deny the mind. If the one made connections between its objective knowledge learned from books and its personal experience got by senses, both perceptions would complete each other and improve each other… instead of suffering from an inner fight.
So when it comes to morality and what to do according to scientific facts, we can accept the facts, their implications and do the right thing but without being so hard on ourselves. Because without a moral compass with an arrow pointing to the truth, how can we ever know the right direction from the wrong direction?!
Scientific Socialism 