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I've been sent two links of responses to my article last week, "What Exactly Is Objective Moral Truth?" Technically they are responses to Harris. But insofar as I am defending the same core thesis, and the links were sent to me, and both are by authors whose opinions I respect (even if I don't always agree with them), they warrant a response here. These responses I think should be read by everyone, since they are common mistakes and misunderstandings, and my responses will clarify things you might need clarified…especially in the closing epilogue of this post.
First of the replies is Ed Babinski, who posted his own entry for the Harris contest on Facebook. Second is John Shook, who posted a reply on his blog at CFI.
In both cases, I must first reiterate the whole gist of my article:
One reason Harris is not the best one to use as your straw man in this debate is that doing that is lazy. It allows talking past each other far too easily. To avoid that I created a formal deductive proof of his core thesis (all the way back in 2011…and that was in development well before that, even before I read his book or even knew he was writing it–which means it is only a proof of "his thesis" in retrospect, since I had been developing the same thesis independently since 2004). What I asked people to do is find a logical invalidity or a non-demonstrable premise in my syllogism. Because that will prevent vagueries and misunderstandings and get right to the heart of who is correct. To do that, I told everyone to read my chapter "Moral Facts Naturally Exist" in The End of Christianity (indeed I said in last week's article, quote, "the syllogisms you have to prove invalid or unsound are on pp. 359-64″). Hereafter I shall refer to that as TEC.
To keep avoiding this is to just lazily act like armchair problem solvers who can't be bothered to actually look up the best version of the argument they are criticizing. Stop that. No more straw man fallacies. Address the best and most rigorous form of the argument. And do it correctly, i.e., actually identify an actual fallacy in those syllogisms or identify a premise in them that is false (or which you can prove we do not know is true).
Apart from simply not doing that (which is the biggest flaw in these replies, reducing them both to a classic straw man fallacy), here is also what's wrong with the Babinski and Shook rebuttals…
The Babinski Rebuttal
Numbers are my own addition:
[1] "Science cannot determine human values because humans interact in competing spheres of rival concerns…"
This statement is factually false. It would entail sociology is not scientific for the same reasons. And economics. And cultural anthropology. And social psychology. And indeed the entirety of Game Theory. Obviously science can empirically determine such things as what spheres of rival concern exist and their effect on optimal human behavior ("best practices"), given even the most complex social systems.
I formally address the question of competing interests (e.g. competing imperatives, as would derive from competing spheres of concern) in TEC, pp. 425-26 n. 33. That directly responds to this point. Three years before it was even made. This illustrates what's so often wrong with rebuttals like this: they are ignoring the fact they we dealt with these objections years ago. No progress can be made if you won't even engage with what has been said.
To be fair, Babinski was writing in response to Harris's book, not mine. So I am not so much criticizing Bababinski as anyone who thinks this is the way to go about answering the actual thesis Harris defends (rather than answering how Harris defends it). Maybe Harris doesn't adequately deal with what Babinski says (though there is no evidence Babinski checked; e.g. he never quotes Harris or cites page numbers in Moral Landscape where Harris touched on any same or similar question, or should have but didn't). But what is the use of sending me your rebuttal of a straw man of my argument?
That we have complex systems of value conflicts is in no way an objection to the core Harris thesis. It's just a statement that the facts (that his core thesis is saying exist) are complex. Which Harris has never denied.
[2] "[T]he consequences people choose are based on values people or groups assign to each of those spheres of concern, and different people and groups assign different values to each of those spheres."
First, that is a claim to scientific fact (it can therefore be proved or disproved empirically). It is therefore not an objection to the core Harris thesis. It is entirely possible that we will find multiple systems of morality, different ones for every individual or type of individual. That would not refute the core Harris thesis. It would in fact verify a form of it. So this rebuttal demonstrates a failure even to understand what Harris has written, much less what I have written.
I discuss this explicitly in TEC, pp. pp. 351-54, which must be understood in the context of the last paragraph on p. 350, which will make sense when you compare what follows with what preceded on pp. 347-50. See also my comments here and here and here (also relevant are my comments here and here). My discussion on TEC was again published three years before Babinski's rebuttal. There, the section "That There Are Moral Facts to Discover" (pp. 347-50) ends with a paragraph in which I said (p. 350):
…this only establishes a realist version of moral relativism: there must necessarily be a factually true morality at the very least for every individual, which may yet differ from individual to individual (or group to group). In such an event, moral truth is relative to the individual (or the group of individuals possessed of the same relevant properties). Nevertheless, this does not change the fact that for any individual there must necessarily be a factually true morality that is not the mere product of their opinion or belief (therefore it is not merely subjective, and certainly not antirealist), but is entirely the product of natural facts (their innate desires and the facts of the world that must be accommodated to realize those desires, which are both real objective facts).
Babinski's second point simply doesn't respond to this conclusion. It in no way undermines or contradicts what I said. Indeed, it practically just repeats what I said. Of course, I go on to prove that there is probably a universal morality besides (pp. 351-54). But Babinski doesn't respond to my argument there, either.
Again, Babinski is only responding to Harris. But what's the point in rebutting a straw man? That was what my article was about. Don't send me rebuttals of Harris, least of all in comments on my article explaining why you shouldn't do that.
Second, there remains a valid question whether people are correctly assigning their values. The assignment of values and value hierarchies is entirely determined by two factors: unchangeable core values and the facts of the world. False beliefs about either can result in false value assignments. Thus the value assignments people "just happen" to make can be wrong, and science can prove it: by proving their assignments are based on false assumptions about the world (e.g. "fetuses have souls") or false assumptions about what is valuable even to the person claiming it has value (e.g. "souls are valuable," where the person in question cannot even explain why souls are valuable even to themselves, yet they just assume they are, or that they are more valuable than what that very same person in actual fact values more). People often do not get their own value hierarchies factually correct.
For example, "a drug high is the most important thing to me" is often asserted but easily refuted Socratically by showing that a person who says this actually in fact does value some things more–indeed the only reason they would ever value this thing at all is that they value other things more (e.g. "a greater satisfaction with life"). This becomes obvious when such people realize they can be more satisfied with their lives when they aren't in thrall to a drug addiction, and for that reason take steps to end their addiction. Thus empirically demonstrating the fact of it: not only the fact of which life is more satisfying to them, but also the fact that they wanted something more than a drug high all along: a satisfying life, which even they did not correctly know (despite this being their own frakkin' value system). Notably, the entire science of psychotherapy (e.g. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy) is based on helping people realize empirically that their value hierarchies are factually false, and to realign them into a logically coherent, fact-based system. Exactly what Harris and I are talking about.
For both reasons (the first and the second), this statement fails as an objection to the core Harris thesis.
[3] All the rest of the questions Babinski raises are empirical questions for science to answer.
Such as whether moral facts are utilitarian–I have given extensive reasons to conclude they will not be, or at least will not be in a classical sense. They will likely be only in the sense of Fyfe-style desire utilitarianism, but the questions Babinski raised are mooted by desire utilitarianism because they don't arise in it (thus, again, we have someone trying to rebut a philosophy who actually doesn't know the philosophy he is rebutting; the entire Carrier-McKay debate I referred everyone to in last week's article concerned desire utilitarianism).
Or such as how we should program AI so as to avoid what may in fact be its alien moral values (I have specifically addressed this problem on my blog before: see Ten Years to the Robot Apocalypse). Again, in this and every other case, I have already answered Babinski-style concerns. In fact, my answers show that Harris's core thesis provides a better answer to these concerns than any philosophical system yet proposed. (My discussion of what we need to do about AI is the easiest demonstration of that to quickly digest; that McKay and I already agree with desire utilitarianism, and its superiority to classical utilitarianism, means if you don't know what desire utilitarianism is, you have an additional learning curve to get to where we are on that debate.)
Babinski has communicated to me privately that what he was really concerned about is how we would effect change, i.e. convince people that any morality discovered by science is the true morality they should abide by. But that is not a relevant concern here. The core Harris thesis is not that we can convince all delusional, stubborn, ignorant, or irrational people that a certain moral system is true (it's entirely possible there will always be unpersuadable people…and thus always creationists, racists, sexists, and so on…but that has nothing to do with what is true, and I wrote several paragraphs on exactly this point in my essay last week). The core Harris thesis is that there is something true about morality and we can discover it empirically, just as in every other domain of knowledge.
The question of how to convince people to accept scientific facts is thus a wholly separate question, and ultimately the same question that plagues geology, biology, cosmology, neurology, and every other science. But before you can start working out how to sell the truth, you have to work out what the truth is that you should be selling. And the core Harris thesis is about the latter, not the former.
The Shook Rebuttal
The Shook rebuttal contains six errors.
[1] Shook conflates my argument with Harris's. He says "Carrier's argument" is what he then presents (with numbered premises), when in fact what he presents was my attempt to make a clearer version of Harris's argument, which I then proceeded to find fault with myself. Thus, Shook is misleadingly attributing my rewording of Harris's argument to me, as if it were my argument. He has thus missed the point of my article, which was that he should not do that, but instead address my actual argument, because it avoids the problems with Harris's.
As I said:
That makes it essentially a straw man (of Harris's own making). But that does not mean there is no sound and sufficient answer to that question. I charge that if you really want to prove there isn't one, you will have to respond to my answer to it in my own chapter on the subject, which, unlike Harris's, went through several serious critiques by expert philosophers and was developed from extensive (and not contemptuous) research in the relevant philosophical literature, and with a concern for carefully laying out its formal logic (the syllogisms you have to prove invalid or unsound are on pp. 359-64; they formalize what is explained in the text).
So where is Shook's "confutation" of my argument, the one on pp. 359-64 of TEC?
He doesn't provide one. Instead he produces a refutation of Harris and assumes he has refuted me, the very thing my article explains is impossible. He can only refute my argument by refuting my argument, not Harris's.
[2] Shook says his "confutation is basically this: That it can be proven that truths 'exist' does not necessarily, by itself, either constitute a method for specifically learning those truths, or supplying the grounds for deducing those truths so that they can be known."
This is not even a response to the core Harris thesis.
The question of building methods is what must follow conceding the core Harris thesis, which is simply that there is something to find. I actually address the kind of methods that would be involved in both my treatises on the subject (e.g. SaG V.2.2.5-6, pp. 331-37, and TEC, pp. 340-56). Science already has developed some of them (see, again, REBT; likewise economics and social psychology and other behavioral sciences). But in general no one would say "I can refute the thesis that there is another planet in our solar system by pointing out that there is no established method yet for finding out." That would be ridiculous. Obviously the latter, even if true, has no bearing on the former. And in practice science almost always innovatively solves the latter question when it seriously undertakes to answer any question like the former.
Only a creationist would say "a natural origin of life is impossible, because you have no method for proving which theory of natural origins is true." That's both false (we might well develop such a method, and we already have working methods for getting started) and fallacious (the conclusion doesn't even follow from the premise). Shook's argument is similarly false (in my printed work I have shown that we already have applicable methods in the fields of psychology, economics, sociology, Game Theory, cognitive science, and so on, and I explain that science could easily develop more and better ones) and fallacious (even if science lacks a method for finding x, that does not mean there is no x to find, and the core Harris thesis asserts the latter).
(See my concluding epilogue for an additional problem with Shook's assumption that we have no means to find the necessary facts.)
[3] Shook says "moral truths there may be, but moral knowledge there may never be, if we rely only upon the sciences (broadly understood) alone. " But he never explains what "other way of knowing" is supposed to fill the gap (a third eye? a crystal ball? prayer?). All claims to fact are empirical. All empirical claims are best studied scientifically ("broadly understood"). What's left? Only sub-par approximations to science.
I address the problem of moral ignorance in TEC, pp. 343-47(see also my exact wording on p. 364, and analysis in n. 28, p. 424, and n. 35, p. 426). On the whole point in general see my comment here. That there may be unanswerable questions in a science in no way argues that that science is not to be pursued.
Shook also conflates situational directions with covering laws. See my discussion of the distinction, and how science can deal with it, in TEC, pp. 351-54. On which see my comment here. We solve this problem in tech fields all the time: engineers frequently must adapt general scientific rules to particular and unusual, even unique, situations. If we can do it in the science of engineering, we can do it in moral science, too. Indeed, what would you prefer? An engineer who has a large database of scientific results to work with when tackling unique situations? Or an engineer who has no database of scientific results to work with at all? Shook is like someone arguing for the latter, simply because engineers can't expect to have a scientific paper addressing every single specific situation they will find themselves in. That's illogical. Let's build a big database of moral science for people to work from. That's the Harris thesis. It's obviously correct.
[4] Illustrating the peril of misattributing Harris's arguments to me, and thus ignoring my actual published arguments, Shook gets wrong the distinction of what a fact is in the imperative domain. He prefers "What will maximize the satisfaction of any human being in any particular set of circumstances, as those circumstances are understood by that human being, is an empirical fact that science can discover" to "What will maximize the satisfaction of any human being in any particular set of circumstances, as those circumstances are understood by us science-minded observers, is an empirical fact that science can discover." Yet he doesn't realize this makes no sense in any other imperative science.
For example, would we really say that the scientific fact of what the best surgical practice is is a question of "What will maximize the success of that surgery in any particular set of circumstances, as those circumstances are understood by the surgeon" and not a question of "What will maximize the success of that surgery in any particular set of circumstances, as those circumstances are understood by science…"? Obviously the actual fact of the matter is the latter. Because the surgeon could be wrong. That's why we do science, and why surgeons defer to the science that has been done.
The community process of scientific discovery is far more reliable than isolated individual perceptions, even of experts. Of course, the scientific community can also be wrong. But that's true in all sciences. We don't say therefore science is impossible because it's sometimes going to be wrong. We say science is probably right about most things, and is more probably right about them than any other way of knowing the matter (barring specific demonstrations of a specific study's flaws or invalidity, for example, but we're talking about sound science, not bad science). Surgeons defer to what the scientific community has established. And the only sound time they don't, is when they can prove thereby that the scientific community was wrong. Which would then become a part of the database of scientific facts.
This is how it works in every other science there is or ever will be. This is how it will work in moral science. So unless Shook is making an argument against all of science, he can't be making any valid argument against moral science.
But possibly what Shook means is something else, that by "understood by [the acting] human being" he means "as would be understood by that human being if they were reasoning non-fallaciously from only true beliefs about themselves and the world," but that is exactly what we mean (Harris and myself). That is what science can help us with. All moral arguments reduce to appeals to either (or both) of two claims to fact: the actual consequences of the available choices (not what we mistakenly think they will be), and which of those consequences the agent would most actually prefer in the long run (not what they mistakenly think they would). Both are objective, empirical facts.
But I don't think this is what Shook meant. He meant the other thing, which makes even less sense. Because…
[5] Shook weirdly says "Suppose you instead claim, 'No, it matters nothing whether a person grasps much of a connection between their circumstances and their moral duties'. This claim is unethical in the extreme. It denies a fundamental right to a person: to control their sense of moral duty." In this statement Shook just said all moral condemnation of others is itself immoral. That is illogical. It's like saying telling a surgeon he is doing it wrong is immoral because it violates his autonomy as a human being. Come on, Dr. Shook. You should have erased this sentence the moment you wrote it. Autonomy does not mean you get to ignore the facts, or treat irrational decisions (i.e. decisions based on fallacious reasoning) as on par with rational ones (i.e. decisions made without any fallacy). The facts tell you what is true, not the other way around.
Now, perhaps this was just a disastrously worded attempt to say that we might sometimes be ignorant of the objective facts and we can only operate on the facts as we know them at the time. But if that's all he means, that is fully compatible with the Harris thesis. This again is just another facet of the issue of moral ignorance, which I address in TEC, pp. 343-47(and with the exact wording on p. 364, and analysis in n. 28, p. 424, and n. 35, p. 426). See, again, my comment here.
[6] Finally, every remaining point Shook makes is a question for science to answer. Not armchair philosophers. For example, a surgeon faced with multiple different situations in which the best procedures for carrying out a particular surgery will be different, would never claim the answer as to which was best in each unusual situation was not a question of scientific fact. He might say science hasn't studied the question yet. But he wouldn't say it couldn't, or shouldn't, or that its merely not doing so means there is no scientific fact of the matter (as if science creates facts rather than discovering them). As for medicine, so for morality.
Likewise, no one says that the word "life" is too vague, therefore biology is impossible. The question of defining terms and looking for distinctions are problems for science to tackle. Hence Shook's remaining complaints completely ignore and fail to interact with any of the examples I discuss in TEC of how science might study specific questions in this domain. He claims such examples are impossible. That I have many therefore refutes him.
Even in general, the most dubious thing any philosopher can ever say is that "science can't study that." Science always proves them wrong. Time and again. For centuries. You'd think philosophers would learn their lesson after a while.
Ultimately, whether science "can" study something can only be determined by science. Philosophers cannot predict what science can and can't do from the armchair. Not least because they aren't scientists, and thus have no expertise in building research instruments in sociology, psychology, anthropology, economics, or cognitive science (the fields most directly relevant to a moral science). The question of whether they can do it is up to them to answer. The core Harris thesis is simply nothing more than that they should finally roll up their sleeves and look into precisely this.
Which all brings me back to my original charge: find the fallacy or false premise in the syllogisms of pp. 359-64. If you can't, you simply have no refutation of my thesis. Or Harris's.
I must close with an important point that seems to get lost in this debate. Everyone all too rapidly assumes that the only significance of the Harris thesis is that morality should become a science, just as nearly every other subject of philosophy has gradually become. That misses the most important point of the Harris thesis.
To correct Shook's statement earlier, what we are saying is that "what will maximize the satisfaction of any human being in any particular set of circumstances, as those circumstances would be understood by that human being if they were reasoning non-fallaciously from only true beliefs about themselves and the world, is an empirical fact that science can discover." Notably Shook never correctly articulated our actual thesis. Thus he cannot have confuted it. He may have confuted Harris's badly worded attempts at explaining it (I don't know; like Babinski, Shook never quotes Harris or cites any relevant page numbers, and thus shows no actual sign of even having read Harris, much less what Harris already says about the things Shook tries to take him to task for), but even then, that reduces Shook's entire argument to a straw man fallacy. Which is a waste of everyone's time.
Look at the correct wording of our thesis (items in bold above are the corrections I made to Shook's misarticulated version of it). Remember what I said: that is what science can help us with. All moral arguments reduce to appeals to either (or both) of two claims to fact: the actual consequences of the available choices (not what we mistakenly think they will be), and which of those consequences the agent would most actually prefer in the long run (not what they mistakenly think they would). Both are objective, empirical facts. And importantly, neither are such that only a full-blown science can discover anything about them.
Let me repeat that last sentence, because it is absolutely crucial: neither facts are such that only a full-blown science can discover anything about them. Science is only better at doing that than available alternatives. It is, in fact, the best at doing that. So when we say morality should become a science, we are not saying no moral facts can be known until we make it a science. We are saying we would know more moral facts, with greater certainty and confidence, if we did. Therefore we should. Indeed, so far as we are able (and we are able), we are morally obligated to. Otherwise we are wallowing in our own willful ignorance of facts we could know more about but refuse to. Of course, individuals like myself don't have this option (I'm not a scientist or a billionaire, so I can't make this science happen, so my resulting ignorance is not willful), but the same cannot be said of our society as a whole, if no one steps up to start learning the facts we have the means to learn.
In the meantime, there are lots of moral facts we can know to some degree of certainty, even if it's not all we could know, and even if it's not known to a scientific degree of certainty in every case. Because the immediate consequence of the Harris thesis is that all claims to moral fact are empirical claims–even now. And that allows us to prove or disprove some of them even now, with already existing science and pre-scientific empirical observations. I've addressed this point in comments on my earlier article (see here, here, here, here, and here). Once we understand that all moral propositions are propositions about what the actual consequences of available options are and which of those consequences the moral agent would actually prefer if they were rationally aware, we can already begin to identify which moral propositions are baseless, which contradict known facts, which are testable, which have some evidence to back them up, and which have a lot of evidence to back them up, even before we begin testing them scientifically.
Ceteris paribus, for a decision to be more moral rather than less moral, the rest of your life in consequence of the choice you make must be more satisfying than it would have been if you chose differently. And that is a causal claim. Which is an empirical claim. Which is a question of scientific fact (whether science has tested it yet or not), which science can always better inform (even when it hasn't tested it directly). Thus all moral claims are attempted approximations to scientific fact, "best guesses" as to what science would conclude if it actually carried out the required study, and like all "best guesses" (e.g. like as to how life began, how the universe began, whether a war will have the outcomes you expect, whether a political policy will work or not, whether there is a Loch Ness monster, whether God exists, whether there is an afterlife, whether naturalism is the most likely worldview), the certainty of the guess will be a function of how much science already has answered that relates to it, and how much can be directly and reliably observed empirically to fill in the gaps. As for all other best guesses at empirical facts science hasn't yet directly resolved, so for best guesses at moral facts.
Thus, that a moral science has not yet begun doesn't change the fact that the Harris thesis clears the decks of all bullshit and lets us know just what it is we are actually trying to guess at when making moral claims, and how to improve the accuracy of those guesses until we have an actual science doing it for us.
As I wrote in one of the comments I linked to above:
[E]ven before we engage such a science, all talk about moral truth simply is talk about what people really want and whether their actions really will produce it.
Analogously, before the 20th century there was no scientific psychology. But all talk about psychology was still talk about what things produce mental phenomena and how they work, which is all talk about empirical facts. Thus all propositions about psychology then were in-principle empirically testable hypotheses about mental phenomena and their causes, some of which even then were more likely to be true (e.g. the brain produces a mind; there is a localization of mental functions across the anatomy of the brain; etc.) than others (e.g. psychic powers; disembodied minds surviving destruction of the brain; etc.).
The same is true now: even before we have a science of morality, if our thesis is correct, then it is still the case that all propositions about morality are in-principle empirically testable hypotheses about shared human desires and the cause-effect relations between human choices and outcomes, some of which even now are more likely to be true (e.g. honest and compassionate people, ceteris paribus, more reliably live more satisfying lives than heartless liars do) than others (e.g. abortion and homosexuality are always immoral; eating pork and answering a telephone on Saturday are immoral; men ought to treat women as inferior and subservient; killing people who criticize religion is a moral good; etc.).
Likewise in another of those comments, I pointed out that:
The only way you could argue against [a conclusion in moral science] is to produce evidence that the consequences of accepting that [conclusion] would be unacceptable (and the latter is a covert reference to human desires: in this case, we would mean the consequences to ourselves [as moral agents], e.g. our consciences, directly and/or the consequences to others [or the society as a whole] in turn causing their behavior to then have consequences upon us that we would not like).
But if you could do that, then "what science found" would then be empirically falsified by the evidence you then produced (which the study you are confuting must have missed), and you would have thus produced the correct scientific conclusion in the matter.
And in another:
Moral facts follow from actual values–which does not mean the values you think you have or just happen to have, but the values you would have if you derived your values non-fallaciously from true facts (and not false beliefs) about yourself and the world. Hence, your actual values (what you really would value if you were right about everything).
As to questions like how we would measure satisfaction comparatively, that's an empirical question for scientists to work out. It is not relevant to the underlying facts. That we didn't have telescopes would not mean there are no mountains on Mars. Regardless of what instruments we presently have, the facts of the world remain objective facts of the world. Thus, a person's greatest available satisfaction state is an actual objective fact about them. Whether we presently have instruments to detect it or not. And all moral discourse is covertly appealing to that and thus already making an objective fact claim about it–whether people realize it or not.
Hence I revisited the psychology analogy in yet another of those comments, like so:
Our situation now is comparable to psychology in the 19th century: there were scientific facts bearing on questions of psychology, but it was hardly a science. So one then could either draw inferences about psychology in as scientific a way as was available to you (and thus admit that what you are doing is attempting to predict what science would confirm if it checked, whether it could or not, and thus all your inferences are actually proto-scientific hypotheses, and thus would be revised the more scientific facts had been ascertained) or you could draw inferences about psychology in some other way (like getting it from the bible, or armchair speculation, or folklore and tradition, or ideology, or the whimsy of imagination, [or what we just "feel" is true], and so on). Obviously the former is the more correct way to do it. And so, too, morality now, even before we get it on a proper scientific footing.
Thus, we are not just saying scientists should start studying this, and stop giving excuses not to. We are also saying that all discourse about morality even now is approximating to a scientific understanding, which thus dispels most moral discourse as nonsense, and improves what remains in what sense it has, and in what ways it could be empirically confirmed in increasing degrees (only the gold standard of which would be a full-blown scientific study).
[Which is philosophy, but] not all philosophy is equal. There is bullshit (e.g. theism, supernaturalism, astrology, afterlife studies). And there is rigorous, scientifically informed philosophy that aims to develop better, more accurate empirical hypotheses about the world until we have enough information to start moving it into a science (e.g. naturalism, protobiology, immortality studies). We can start that process now. Because not all knowledge begins "scientifically certain" out of the gate (e.g. propositions about psychology in 1850); nor is what isn't yet scientific "just as likely" as every other proposition on the matter (e.g. propositions about psychology in 1850).
[R]emember that this isn't just about getting scientists to stop making excuses for not studying this. It's also about getting all rational people to chuck in the bin all the baloney moral discourse (that is akin to theology, supernaturalism, astrology, afterlife studies) and learn how to be able to identify moral discourse that is actually science-based and at least starting to approximate something testable. That's philosophy. But it's the right kind of philosophy. Because it's philosophy on the right track and capable of getting somewhere (that somewhere only being ultimately, in the long run, actual scientific research).
This is the lesson Shook doesn't seem to get. In the end, any claim he ever makes about morality is a claim about either or both empirical facts (what will really happen, and what we really want). Otherwise he's just talking rot. All his claims about morality would just be his own personal complaints about how people aren't behaving the way he wants them to, and not true statements about how they actually ought to behave.
Until we realize this, we should never speak on morality as if we know any true statement about it. Because other than statements about what will really happen, and what an agent will really want, there are no true statements about it.


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This is NOT worthy of Lasers. I think everybody who likes this song is either a fan of the mainstream, is not a 'TRUE' Lupe fan, or they have been waiting for a single for so long that they're just happy to have something new. Maybe a combination of all of those reasons. I, however, hate the mainstream, I have been a fan of Lupe since the 1st/15th mixtapes, and I am not just happy to have a new single. I was blown away by 'Shining Down' and 'I'm Beamin', but 'The Show Goes On' doesn't even come close to impressing me. I'm just a fan with constructive criticism, and I know that this is nothing close to Lupe's album potential. This song is not worth putting on a real Lupe Fiasco album, let alone being a single. It's probably only good enough to be on 'Friend of the People', if that were ever released. Lupe, you can do much, much better than this, and you know it. I hope this is only a hiccup, because I don't want to be disappointed; especially since we've all been waiting for 2 and a half years for this album. You're better than this single.
Personally, I think Lu killed it on this track. I think the people saying they'd be "disappointed" in LASERS if it's like this song are paying too much attention to the beat of the song. Lu is still Lu with his lyrics, he's preaching the whole idea of the LASERS Manifesto in the song. Again...I love the song, Lu killed it, and is it March 8th yet?
Possible sample of Modest Mouse's Float On, am I the only one to note the similarities? However on that note love Modest Mouse, love Lupe, love life.
Atlantic won't release Lasers w/out a hit single. Lupe is friend of the people. You know the album won't sound like NOW 40 or sum shit C'mon Son!*Ed Lover Voice*
I love Lupe to death, but if this song is any indication of how his album is going to turn out I'll be disappointed. Lupe represents a lot more than all this mainstream crap on the radio, and for his song to sound like he was going for a top 40 hit is disappointing. Rap and pop's greatest enemy is autotune, I hate to see Lupe fall to it.
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The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and Department of Transportation have selected 11 finalists in the rain barrel painting contest.
The finalists are: Alan Rich, Rehoboth Beach; Kathi Schiavoni, Townsend; Laura Schmidt, Wilmington; Natalie Wipf, New Castle; Bruce McKinney, Milton; Kim Klabe, Rehoboth; Leah Curran, Bear; Susan S. Johnston, Dover; Diane Calloway, Laurel; Kim Littleton, Laurel; Monika Bullette, Wilmington.
DNREC and DelDOT chose the artists based on their applications and designs. After being selected, the artists had five weeks to paint and return their barrels. The barrels will be displayed at the Delaware Agricultural Museum during the month of April. One grand prize-winning rain barrel will then be installed at Woodburn, the Governor's Residence.
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Teach gun safety
Published: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 at 12:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, July 15, 2013 at 2:06 p.m.
Editor: What is wrong with you people? A shooting range will be a great place for young people to go and learn about guns and how to use them. Nowadays people can't get their phones out of their ear to teach their children for some reason. If barbecue isn't involved in it, the county doesn't want it. We have no place to go shoot other than our backyard.
When I was young and in the Boy Scouts, a great man who I look up to still today and his brother, Ronnie and Bruce Nance (Bruce died in a car crash), took more time teaching children about guns and safety than my own dad. That's the problem, the youths have nothing to do, no skateboard parks, nowhere to go to a movie, no one to teach them to shoot.
Wonder why no one says a thing about the police range? I'll tell why: protect and serve. People, I'll tell you times have changed. People break in on you for money, people rob you at teller machines, carjackings, and if you don't know how to use a gun right then, blame someone who couldn't take time out of their life to teach you. You can't fire a gun in the city because of the laws, so we need somewhere here to shoot.
Maybe just maybe someone will teach some of the young people what guns are about. So maybe the signs at Main Street should read "keep your money in the county."
Donald Felker
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text: There are several methods for computing the Nth term (mod M) of a linear recurring sequence of order d in log_2(N) steps, but most such methods require d^2 full multiplications (mod M) per step. The algorithm described below requires only d(d+1)/2 multiplications per step. The algorithm can be described in terms of the basis sequences B_j(k), defined by d-1 x^n = sum B_j(n) x^j mod f(x) j=0 where f(x) is the characteristic polynomial of the recurrence. There are several useful identities on these sequences. In particular B_k(n1+n2+..+nt+d) = B_k(a1+a2+..+at+d) B_a1(n1) B_a2(n2) ... B_at(nt) where summation from 0 to d-1 is implied over each index a*. NOTATION: Summation from 0 to d-1 is implied over any index that appears both as a subscript and as an argument in a single term. For computing the Nth term of a linear recurrence (mod M), the most useful special case of the above identity is B_k(2n+r) = B_k(a1+a2+r) B_a1(n) B_a2(n) where r is set to either 0 or 1 according to the binary bits of N. Because of the symmetry of the right hand side, only d(d+1)/2 full multiplications are required per step. There is a nice relation between the basis sequences B and the s(n) sequences (i.e., the sums of the nth powers of the roots of f). Let {i,j,..,k} be any given permutation of the integers {1,2,..,t} with the disjoint cyclic components c1, c2,..,cr. Then we have r B_a1(n1+ai) B_a2(n2+aj) ... B_at(nt+ak) = prod s( sum(n[q]) ) q=1 where sum(n[q]) denotes the sum over all the n'x' such that x is in cq. In the most trivial case, this identity reduces to the fact that s(n) is the "trace" (or "contraction") of the basis sequences s(n) = B_a(n+a) Of course, given the basis sequence elements, we can easily compute the Nth terms of any linear recurring sequence (not just s(n) with the characteristic polynomial f(x), since every such sequence is a linear combination of the basis sequences.


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Go Karting Tracks near Bracknell
Thanks for all the great things to do and Go Karting Tracks near Bracknell with kids you keep sending in.
Now we have the easter and summer holidays fast approaching, we're trying to find the best days out and as many fun things to do with kids as possible, especially cheap and free family friendly places to visit this year - theme parks, waterparks and swimming pools, museums, indoor playcentres and softplay for toddlers, petting farms, wildlife parks and zoos, aquariums, horse riding, castles, steam railways, pottery making and ceramic cafes, roller and ice skating rinks, karting tracks, snowdomes, dry and indoor ski slopes, climbing walls, activity centres, outdoor play at the best local parks, ten pin bowling alleys and all the other best family tourist attractions, that you can visit at the weekend.
Also teachers may find the site useful for ideas for the best places to take their classes on school journeys with many historical and educational atractions listed
So, if you've been for great days out with the kids, or a school trip, which isn't shown above, just send in an email and we'll add it on so people visiting on holidays and all the other children in Berkshire can enjoy the great day out as well.
Swimming Pools in Bracknell | Zoos near Bracknell | Theme Parks near Bracknell
Indoor play areas in Bracknell | Museums in Bracknell | Things to do in Bracknell
Go Karting Tracks in Berkshire | Go Karting Tracks in Windsor | Reading Karting
Karting in Oxfordshire | Family things to do in Berkshire | Places to visit in London
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Java Errors/Troubleshooting
If you got an java error during desktop sharing or screen capture, check your java version here: http://vyew.com/browsertest.
Version 1.6+ is required (only for users sharing their desktop or screen capturing, not the ones viewing).
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– You might have 2 java versions installed that are interfering with each other
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BNC Bancorp net income grows sharply
Published: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 10:52 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 10:52 a.m.
Another quarter of improving loan demand from consumers and more progress on reducing negative loan portfolio obligations led BNC Bancorp to a 223.6 percent increase in net income to $3.75 million in the first quarter.
Excluding $529,000 in preferred stock dividend payments, BNC's net income would have been $4.28 million.
The bank reported diluted earnings of 14 cents a share, up 3 cents from the first quarter of 2012.
The average earnings forecast was 13 cents by analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research. Analysts typically don't include one-time gains and charges in their earnings projections.
Revenue from loans rose 21 percent to $33.1 million, while revenue from fees was up 6.6 percent to $6.2 million.
BNC's boost in profitability has come in part through the recent purchases of First Trust Bank in the Charlotte market, KeySource Financial in Durham, Carolina Federal Savings Bank in Charleston, S.C., and two Triangle branches from The Bank of Hampton Roads.
"We continue to actively pursue strategic acquisitions that provide depth in our key markets," said Swope Montgomery, the bank's chief executive and president. "However, we are cultivating the investments made over the past several years in growth markets, non-interest income sources, a more diversified deposit base and an elite-level senior management team."
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Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles International Airport is the companion facility to the Museum on the National Mall. The building opened in December, 2003, and provides enough space for the Smithsonian to display the thousands of aviation and space artifacts that cannot be exhibited on the National Mall. The two sites together showcase the largest collection of aviation and space artifacts in the world.
Image Number: 2006-12604
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|Ledbetter earns all-WAC
DENVER - Idaho senior Jeff Ledbetter had a breakout season in 2010-11, and he was rewarded on Sunday with a second-team all-Western Athletic Conference honor, as voted by the league's coaches.
Ledbetter was one of two Vandals to earn postseason awards, as sophomore center Kyle Barone landed an all-WAC honorable mention accolade, as well. They are the first such honors for both Idaho players.
With 55 made 3-pointers in conference play, Ledbetter posted the top long-range shooting performance by a WAC player since 2006, and he finished the year seventh in scoring in league play at 15.1 points per game. He also led the conference in free throw percentage (.875) was second in 3-point percentage (.462), and was third in steals (1.75/gm).
"Jeff had a great league season," Idaho head coach Don Verlin said. "He obviously made our offense extremely hard to guard with his ability to make 3-pointers."
Barone led the conference in field goal percentage overall (.614), and stepped it up in league play, where he shot a WAC-best 64.5 percent, which ranks fifth in conference history. He put in 11.6 points and grabbed 6.0 rebounds per game in WAC play.
"Kyle is a very efficient player," Verlin said. "He has a very good field goal percentage, and he's top ten in rebounding. I thought he played really solid all year long and I couldn't be happier for him."
Ledbetter becomes the third Vandal to earn all-WAC honors, while Barone is the second to earn honorable mention recognition.
The two helped lead a balanced Idaho team that went 18-12 overall this year, and tied for third place in the WAC with a 9-7 league record. The regular-season win total is the team's highest since 1993, and the third-place finish is the second in three years under Verlin.
"Make no mistake about it, individual awards come from team accomplishments," Verlin said. "The reason why we got those individual awards was because our team played very well through the conference season."
Utah State's Stew Morrill earned the Don Haskins Coach of the Year honor after leading Utah State to a 15-1 league record and fourth-consecutive regular-season title. USU's Tai Wesley was named WAC Player of the Year, and Nevada's Deonte Burton earned the Freshman of the Year honor.
2010-11 WAC Postseason Award Winners:
First-Team All-WAC
Second-Team All-WAC
All-WAC Honorable Mention
All-Defensive Team
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|I will smile, but I will not look at the camera.
Hunter tends to always have a couple of books that he has to read every night. Right now Shark Vs. Train by Chris Barton is on that list. We found this one at the scholastic book fair at our library. As soon as Hunter saw it he grabbed of the self and just knew it was meant for him. I don't think it even occurred to him that there could be a possibility I wouldn't buy it for him.
I mean a book with Shark and Trains. It had to have been written with my son specifically in mind.
|Seriously mom. Enough with the camera.
It is definitely another book to love!
So what are some of your favorite children's books right now?!
So what are some of your favorite children's books right now?!


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This Week in Idaho T&F:
NCCA Indoor Championships (Mar.8-9) Fayetteville, Ark.
Looking Forward:
Idaho will send junior Hannah Kiser to compete at the NCAA Indoor Championships this week at Randal Tyson Track Center (Fayetteville, Ark.). Kiser will make her second-consecutive trip to the meet, where she finished 13th last year. The women's 3000m race is set to start at 4:40 p.m. (PT) on Saturday.
Quick Recap:
The Idaho women's 4x400 relay team broke a 12-year school record at the WAC championships two weeks ago, and added ten individual titles. The Vandal women finished the meet in sixth place. On the men's side, senior Barry Britt was honored with WAC Track Performer of The Year and the WAC High Point Award, and also became the first Idaho man to win both the 3000m and the 5000m. All together the Vandals earned 10 First-Team All-WAC honors and 10 Second-Team All-WAC honors at the meet. At the Husky qualifier last weekend senior Liga Velvere broke her previous school record in the 800m, with a time of 2:06.20.
Breaking Records:
Junior Hannah Kiser won the women's 3000m at the WAC Indoor championships Feb.23 with a time of 9:40.35 to break her previous WAC Championship meet record set last year in the event. Kiser broke her WAC record and school record at the Husky Invitational Feb.10 where she ran the 3000m with a time of 9:04.23. Her time ranks 5th fastest in the NCAA so far this season, and leads the WAC by 37 seconds. Kiser also broke the WAC-all time record and the Idaho school record for the mile last weekend at the UW Qualifier meet. She ran a time of 4:37.55, ranking 22nd in the nation so far this season.
The Idaho women are currently ranked 55th in the nation, and 9th regionally ahead of Boise State University, University of Southern California and Washington State University. The men finished the indoor season ranked 11th in the region.


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I first tasted the Hot Cocoa Kisses back at the 2006 All Candy Expo. I wasn't impressed with from what I remember, but at the same time I was experiencing flavor fatigued from all the samples I had tasting prior to visiting the Hershey's booth. They first appeared in stores as a holiday limited edition last year and I made sure to ignore them. This year I decided to go back and give them as shot.
These are similar to the Truffle Kisses, as there's not an easily detectable filling. It's more a smooth texture you feel in your mouth as opposed to anything you see. The center is cool on the tongue, a little greasy and very slippery.
I was expecting the flavor to be like the Truffle Kiss; basically an intensely smooth, sweet chocolate flavor. The Cocoa Kisses are not like that. Yes, they do have an intense chocolate taste, but there's something sweeter and more buttery about this these. Thankfully, it's not an intense fake buttery flavor like the Candy Corn Kisses. I'm instantly reminded of cupcake frosting: sweet, buttery, creamy, a little tangy with a dash of salt.
I don't get "hot cocoa" from this at all, it's really more like frosting. They're tasty and I like them better than the fudge center ones.
Be forewarned as these are very, very sweet. By the time I was on my fourth Kiss I started to get a throat burn. That didn't stop me from polishing off more than a serving or two in one sitting. Oops.
Rating: Will Buy Again
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NASA Space Science Training: Explore: Jupiter's Family Secrets
March 25-26, 2013
Ocean Pines, Maryland
Explore: Jupiter's Family Secrets will acquaint you with Jupiter and NASA's upcoming Juno mission to discover clues about our solar system's history! Scientists and educators from NASA and the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) will share space science information, resources, hands-on activities, and demonstrations developed specifically for you to infuse into your programs with children and youth ages 8 to 13 and their families. Network with library colleagues in the mid-Atlantic region and discuss ways to incorporate the activities into your programs.
Public library staff that provide, or plan to provide, programs for 8-13-year-olds in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia are invited to apply. Space is limited to 30 participants and will be conducted on a first-come-first-accepted basis.
The workshop is free. A $350 stipend is available for 25 participants and will be offered on a first-come-first-accepted basis.
Apply online by February 1, 2013 at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/explo ... ops/md2013. (Preference will be given to those serving rural audiences.)
Space is limited!
For further information, please download the attached invitation or contact Christine Shupla at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Successful year for our Commuter Team and goals for 2012
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commuter team,drop me a line
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Current Supporters
Handlebar Mustache
Commuting by bike is fun and it doesn't take a fancy bike, power tap, or any carbon to do it. There aren't any training plans that have to be followed or special licenses to buy, just your will and desire. We started our Commuter Team as a non-competitive group that show their love for cycling through commuting. Some I personally know are racers and one uses it as a major source of fitness but the group is open to any and all willing to commute by bike and by no means must that activity be daily!
For all those who participated this year on the commuter team I want to say THANK YOU. In nearly 12 months the team racked up over 25,000 miles which resulted in a total of nearly $4,700 dollars in gas alone saved, not to mentioned the savings their health insurance plans had (or will have in years to come). Handlebar Mustache has kindly donated T-shirts to us and we are looking for your business to join in and reward some of these riders for making a commitment.
Plans for the commuter team in 2012
This year we only had 33 members, that is pretty weak in my mind considering over 1000 readers visit our site daily. This group is open to all, anyone with a bike can join up and show the world and yourself that you can make a difference and break that culture dependency on the automobile that has been designed into our community for the last 70 years! To join costs nothing but at best a random commitment to commuting by bike, once a month will do!
More awards and swag
We need to celebrate the commuters like we would those who complete in the challenging Mt Evan's hill climb or Ride the Rockies. I'm going to work with local businesses to reward these riders for their hard work and dedication. Already Handlebar Mustache has offered up some T-shirts this week! If your business would like to reward these riders drop me a line and I'll be sure your get some airtime on 303 for your contribution!
Challenges with other commuter groups
Sadly there were no other organized commuter groups in 2011 so we were a team with no one to compete against, in 2012 I'm going to continue to encourage other groups in the front range to make a team and create temporal challenges like "The team with the most miles per rider in July wins". So if you don't want to join our team then start your own and get riding! There as got to be a cycling organization in Boulder who as the reach to start a commuter team... or maybe not... we are it!
Looking for new software!
WorldCommute.com is fine but the internet overhauls itself every few years so if anyone knows of a better solution to tracking your miles as a group please share it!!
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Submitted by Kris Thompson on
Thanks to Handlebar Mustache for being the first to step up and support our commuter team. Who is next?
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Submitted by Ariel (not verified) on
After filling up my truck gas tank for some gawd-awful amount on Valentines day this year I decided it was time to start commuting by bike as much as possible. I had already seen the 303cycling post about the start of the commuter team so I immediately signed up. Feeling affiliated with a team with a purpose and feeling somewhat obligated to ride made the commitment to ride easy and I felt highly motivated to stick with it, and I loved logging my miles every day and watching the stats pile up.
Thanks for the inspiration and look forward to staying committed for years to come!
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Submitted by James (not verified) on
Hey guys,
You might check out Greenlightride.com, which is pretty similar to Worldcommute but they do some more site-wide "challenges" that could be fun. Thanks for putting a little competition into our commutes this year!
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PDN Video Pick: Monkeys in a Minute
Cary and Yari Wolinsky, a father and son video production team based in Massachusetts, have produced a series of genuinely heartwarming videos for an NGO called Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled. The organization provides its clients with companion monkeys that help with simple everyday tasks. But more importantly, the monkeys give their owners a renewed sense of purpose as caregivers to adorable, affectionate pets. The Wolinskys explain in a PDN feature story how they gained the trust of the NGO, which is extremely protective of its clients and their monkeys. They also share a lot of instructive details about how they produced the videos.
This video, called Michael and Kathy, is one of a series called Monkeys in a Minute. Other videos in that series are posted on the Helping Hands Web site. Several longer videos about Helping Hands are also available on the Wolinskys' Web site.


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Looking for information on fractals through google I have read several time that one characteristic of fractals is :
- finite area
- infinite perimeter
Although I can feel the area is finite (at least on the picture of fractal I used to see, but maybe it is not necessarly true ?), I am wondering if the perimeter of a fractal is always infinite ?
If you think about series with positive terms, one can find :
- divergent series : harmonic series for example $\sum_0^\infty{\frac{1}{n}}$
- convergent series : $\sum_0^\infty{\frac{1}{2^n}}$
So why couldn't we imagine a fractal built the same way we build the Koch Snowflake but ensuring that at each iteration the new perimeter has grown less than $\frac{1}{2^n}$ or any term that make the whole series convergent ?
What in the definition of fractals allows or prevent to have an infinite perimeter ?


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Eating to Live on the Outside: 222 Veggie Vegan
It's Saturday! Time for another "trip" to sample veggie food from far-far away and this week Eating to Live on the Outside crosses the pond to visit 222 Veggie Vegan in London, England.
Now, just because Shaun of the Dead is my favorite movie does not influence my opinion in any way. 222 Veggie Vegan is awesome! Here's a rough draft of stuff I might order:
Bean and Tofu Pancake
- Black eye bean and tofu pate wrapped in a whole-meal pancake, topped with tomato chunks and vegan cream sauce; normally I avoid vegan faux-foods, but I'll give this a whirl.
222 Gardens
- Baked plantain, okra, falafels, tomato sauce, marinated aubergines and courgettes; believe it or not, I've never tried okra.
Chickpea Curry
- Seasoned vegetables, chickpeas and brown basmati rice; I'm cool with the rice, no worries.
Chef's Salad
- Seasoned vegetables, greens, avocado chunks, asparagus, potatoes, sun dried tomatoes and artichokes marinated with olive dressing; looks great, but dressing on the side.
Broccoli and Mushrooms Salad
- Red onion, broccoli, mushrooms and extra virgin olive oil; same thing with the olive oil here.
Tomato, Cucumber and Organic Tofu Salad
- Tofu, tomato and cucumber with light pesto dressing; tomatoes are a wonderful thing!
Mixed Leaf Salad
- Mixed leaves and light pesto dressing; I dig it.
Sun-dried Tomatoes and Jerusalem Artichokes Salad
- Jerusalem artichokes and sun-dried tomatoes; short and simple.
Yeah, 222 Veggie Vegan is bloody good and I love that they avoid stuff like refined and fried foods. Now, if I REALLY had to pick something, I'm going with veggie-packed Chef's Salad.
Okay, it's your turn. Check out 222 Veggie Vegan's menu and let me know what you'd order.
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