We are star stuff harvesting star light

[lowk]

I think I am approaching one of the most fundamental choices in my life, one that may well determine an awful lot about my future. By the start of next year I am going to have to choose whether to become a biological or a physical scientist.

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[sadisticjackass]

physics or ethics/biology...

[lowk]

ethics?

[sadisticjackass]

Ehh cough cough I realize that wasn't an option, but bioethics is pretty amazing.

[lowk]

Bioethics can be a pretty interesting subject in it's own right, but I feel that the vast majority of people who talk about bioethics tend to be quite ignorant people, who suffer from what Dawkins called "the conceit of the discontinuous mind".

Also, ethics isn't a science, and probably never will be, due to the fact that there is no way to go from the studies of How and Why that are science, to the studies of Ought that are ethics. Hume's fallacy and all.

Hello, by the way. You're a Convert_me person, aren't you?

[sadisticjackass]

Oh, Hume. Well fair enough about ethics not being a science, but in terms of personal preference I'd say bioethics or physics. Not that that says anything about what kind of physics.

Hello, yes I'm a convert_me person, though only posted for the first time recently. Your username was mentioned a few times in relation to dragons (?) I think.