Morality and values depend on the existence of con... -Sam Harris

Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.

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It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologi...
Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects....
One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth inges...
As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beau...
Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It i...
The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good....
It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality....
Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. ...
The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma...
It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism...

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We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing p...
Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in b...
Socialism and Communism are extremely attractive to a superficial observer. It is not until you get into the details, or actually experience it, that ...
The only way young players learn how to get better is by playing or get the experience is by playing and getting out there and doing it....
Immediately after the Floyd experience, I became a pop record producer....
The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy....
It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later....
Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our r...
The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet mor...
When I was a teenager, in the '80s, it was 'Dynasty.' It was 'Beverly Hills, 90210.' And those were fantasies. Those weren't reflective of my experien...