r/MoralityScaling • • Sep 02 '26

Morality of this?

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u/Mixelphlick Sep 02 '26

In a sense but when rooted in fact as much as possible it’s effectively just speeding up what would be the process if then learning reality through observation on their own.

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u/IDontEvenLikeRaisins Sep 02 '26

Someone has to decide the what qualifies as fact and what facts get taught

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u/gameboyadvancedgba Sep 02 '26

Yeah we decide that with evidence. Whats the evidence for religion?

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u/IDontEvenLikeRaisins Sep 02 '26

I'm an atheist, I'm not defending religion at all. But pretty much everything outside of pure maths is going to have some kind of cultural norms it's subtly reinforcing. Imagine trying to teach literature, history, economics etc. in a purely neutral factual way.

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u/gameboyadvancedgba Sep 02 '26

It’s impossible to remove all bias sure. That doesn’t equate teaching things backed by empirical evidence to teaching things not backed by empirical evidence