Reply #65: Following the line of thinking from above

[tama]

How "evil cannot be quantified" and "attempt to quantify evil" is (qualitatively?) evil in itself.

Hence by a short leap of fuzzy qualitative logic ;), pure quantitative scientific thinking (science defined as measuring) - without balancing it with qualitative thinking and sensing to put calculations and measurements into their appropriate contexts - is qualitative evil. ;)

In other words, if "ethics" (empathy, sympathy, conscience etc.) is basically a feeling and a sense of some whole (holy?) that is not a reducible object, ie. not a sum of its parts and analyzable by scientific thought, then science should be subject to ethics and not vice versa; and to demand that ethics should be subject to science is indeed "evil".

There is an escape, though, to save science: giving up the extremely narrow definition of science as nothing but measuring. And with quantum physics and all (that is basically very wierd math or "a general theory of measuring") that should have been done ages ago, and based on strong empirical data aka measuring itself, to say the least!