Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
“What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?"
"I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps."
"Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?”
— Albert Camus, book The Plague
"Comprehension."
The Plague (1947)
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Neal Stephenson (1959) American science fiction writer
Source: The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
“Morals: They’re nothing but a coded survival instinct!”
Theodore Sturgeon book More Than Human
Source: More Than Human (1953), Chapter 3, p. 175
Joe Orton (1933–1967) English playwright and author
What the Butler Saw (1969), Act I
W. Cleon Skousen book The Naked Communist
The Naked Communist (1958)
“Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.”
William O. Douglas (1898–1980) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Dissenting, Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476 (1957)
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“No moral code is right, correct, true. That's nihilism. And we have to accept it.”
Alexander Rosenberg (1946) American philosopher
The Atheist's Guide to Reality (2011)
Context: Scientism starts with the idea that the physical facts fix all the facts, including the biological ones. These in turn have to fix the human facts—the facts about us, our psychology, and our morality. After all, we are biological creatures, the result of a biological process that Darwin discovered but that the physical facts ordained. As we have just seen, the biological facts can't guarantee that our core morality (or any other one, for that matter) is the right, true, or correct one. If the biological facts can't do it, then nothing can. No moral code is right, correct, true. That's nihilism. And we have to accept it.
