How reliable is science? --Anthropology (The limitations of science)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Friday, April 20, 2012, 00:16 (4599 days ago) @ David Turell

"Good" and "evil" are arbitrary judgments. 
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> > We DO however have an obvious tendency to be self-absorbed. This is intensely reinforced in all material cultures, as we place a great focus on the acquisition of wealth. 
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> Is grad school for pleasure only or do you look forward to more money?
> -It's funny you ask this, because since being "diagnosed" as a father, I've been giving intense scrutiny to this. -The answer is: No. -One of my best friends has one semester of college education, and he leads a programming team making > $90k/yr. -Another of my friends has only 5yrs experience and just got a position making $87k/yr.-If cash is my motive, no, I don't need a master's. Technical expertise earns as much as low-executive management. -The Master's is purely for me. It will broaden my possibilities for sure, but in the tech industry, a Master's means a broader array of options than it does for $. The tiebreaker in all computing fields is experience. (Meritocracy.) -> I must keep in mind your Eastern thought background. 
> -Heh. You forgot about that. Eastern thought moralizes less and concentrates more on knowledge: We do bad things because we don't know better, rather than having a nature predisposed to "evil." It's a much more humanistic approach. -> > Still, you haven't demonstrated any real opposition to the idea that when the cards are all on the table, that the truth has always prevailed, money or not.
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> Granted.

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