The Values Of Science In The Moral Arch By Michael Shermer

Initially, The book “The Moral Arch” by Michael Shermer talks about as technology advances that we all become more moral to each other. I agree that as we become more technological, we become more moral in majority life, especially when it comes to capital punishment, violent crimes, religion, freedom, and democracy. We can see it through our history during the industrial revolution era, and through our generation today. Science will continue to make us more moral about our daily activities.
First, in capital punishment in early human civilization, we focused more on the suffering the criminal gets than what crime he committed. According to History Rundown, Persians used a murder technique call the boats. They would put the criminal on a boat

In the 1800s, African Americans and women couldn’t own property, vote, or be truly free. Everyone was segregated by the pigment of their skin. This was institutionalizing severely in the south. According to the Gallup poll, ninety-six percent of blacks, 84% of whites approve interracial marriage in 2011. That’s a 79% increased favor compare to 1950s gallop poll. When science began to full throttle it help liberate the freedoms for the minority. Women are now more likely to get a four year degree than me which is different than it was in the 1970s. In the 1950s, interracial marriage was wrong. Homosexuality is currently illegal in major of the states of America. As science progresses with experiments, we will see homosexuality to be acceptable in our society. According to Lydia Saad, she said “The 63% now saying gay relations should be legal nearly matches the record-high 64% of a year ago, which came after a long-term increase in support for legality from 32% in 1986.” As science grows more, the Supreme Court will protect same sex

Before there was democracies in the world, and there was monarchies. The royal family would control everyone in the country, and the peasants wouldn’t have a say on how the country should be ran. With technology advances, we have developed a democracy. Democracy is by the people, and for the people of the country without any prejudice on social class. It gives more individual rights, and liberties. In this case, civil wars or armed conflicts have been reduced dramatically. Democracies also help increased income. It wasn’t until the death of Francisco Franco, that Spain got democracy, and they exploded in GDP. There was a study that democratic countries have a dispute. They are less likely to have a violent result. A democratic country having a dispute with an Autocracy country, than they are most likely going to act in