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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (14121)	5/23/2001 10:28:23 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 82486

Remember we had a disagreement as to the benefits of modern science? Talk about playing with fire! Is the benefit worth the risk? Science is a small suset of a reasoning perspective. Sometimes it only sees the trees. I have said that science is not a god to me. However, itm is our best hope for survival. Scientists have generally proven to be conscientious and thoughtful people (as one would expect). The atom bomb (to cite an example), caused a great deal of agony in the scientific community--but in the end they developed it. As always, whatever science develops to benefit humankind, always insinuates the necessity to (ask) "what means we have to keep the technology from being used in subverted ways." What is the alternative? To simply live as the animals, and to allow pestilence, disease, and the forces of Nature to confront us at the level of brutish superstition? It is one thing to recognize the need for eternal vigilance; it is another to condemn the knowledge which separates us from the countries that are being decimated by AIDS, Racism, Religion...etc., etc., etc...