Pascal’s Wager Revised
9th October 2007
David Friedman keeps turning the conventional wisdom on its head.
What many people don’t realize that almost all of the religion-based moral strictures to which we are accustomed can be justified without recourse to religion, purely on practical (and, in many cases, evolutionary) grounds. I did murder in a seminar paper in law school, but even somewhat minor moral strictures can be analyzed that way. The problem is that religious people aren’t interested in doing so and irreligious people don’t think there’s any point to it.