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What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about 'right' and 'wrong,' or 'good' and 'evil,' and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?

What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about 'right' and 'wrong,' or 'good' and 'evil,' and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?

Sam Harris
Our World, Evil, Worry
Sam Harris (2011). “The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.

Sam Harris
Worry, People, Pretending

The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.

Sam Harris
Christian, Thinking, Worry
Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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