Benjamin Cain
May 9, 2022

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I see now, and I think we're arguing for similar conclusions but from different vantage points. You'd appeal to a religion to ground a distinction between correct and incorrect uses of energy (because scientific objectification entails that natural processes are amoral). I look for aesthetic and pantheistic reconstructions of value judgments based more directly on science and on philosophical naturalism.

Solar energy may be more sustainable than using up the Earth's nonrenewable resources, and it may be foolish to pretend that terrestrial energy and private property are wholly independent of the Sun. But from a purely scientific or secular perspective, nothing that happens naturally is either right or wrong. So both the Earth and the Sun are so much raw materials waiting to be exploited. My question is whether there's a natural, secular morality that can rival the naturalness of that egoism.

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

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