Moral code? Heuristics. Scientific method? Heuristics. Use of mathematics within the sciences? Heuristics. If it works, that's what we use. I'm biased because I'm an American and in America, Pragmatics is somewhat embedded in our culture as a "good thing". Pragmatic = an American moral good, generally speaking. I don't know if that is a valid question. I don't think a thing "is moral" or "is immoral" without a context. Perhaps it is, but I've found very few laws that are ultimately Universal. I'm working on one now that might be but I have work to do on it. [my computer is chugging away on something regarding metaphors and language in a CMD window... hopeful something 'morally good' comes of it tongue emoticon