Can Science Demonstrate Racism or Genocide is Morally Wrong?

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

@NLENTS

Science can, and I think should, become the ultimate arbiter of what is moral and immoral, because if it ever becomes possible to measure suffering and happiness, opportunity and hardship, it will be science that accomplishes that. I think that science should absolutely force upon ourselves and our colleagues moral questions about what/how/why we are doing, every step of the way.

@NLENTS I totally agree that science forces moral questions on us. I’m not sure how it arbitrates them. Perhaps you can work out an example for us.

How could science demonstrate that genocide is morally wrong?

How could science demonstrate that racism is wrong?

How could science demonstrate that all humans have universal rights?

If science is capable of of arbitrating moral questions, these two positive controls should be extremely easy to answer with science. Can you show us how?