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I appreciate Sam's scientific attempts to generate morality -- though Comte advocated the same thing, and it ended pretty badly. I agree with a lot of Sam's proposals, but I'm still not convinced by his argument that you can derive "ought" from "is."
You can't go straight from 'is' to 'ought', but empirical insights can guide ethical priorities a lot, e.g. actual death rates from semi-auto rifles (300/year) vs. medical errors (100k/year) might inform the ethics of gun control?
Core values simply are what they are (e.g. "is") in humans and other agents and science can find counter-intuitive ways for those agents to better thrive given those core values. The rest is basically arbitrary semantics imo.
I think Sam's point is that 'is vs ought' is a false dichotomy. Moral questions are not removed from epistemology.
"you can't" Always be cautious of people speaking in absolutes. It's rarely that clear cut "I'm not convinced" is at least an opening
I don’t see an honest argument here as medical errors are likely mostly non-intentional and fire arm deaths are likely mostly intentional. So there’s a strawman lurking here somewhere.
No straw man. He said priorities. A 10% reduction of gun deaths per year would be 30, of medical errors would be 10,000. If saving lives is what matters most, then medical errors would appear to be the low hanging fruit.
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