eg. its good to discover something because it could help a friend of mine.
2007-10-28 09:57:24 · 5 answers · asked by the good guy 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I heard someone say, ¨why distribute so and so vaccine to Africans if it will lead to more people being alive to suffer?"
is that like an identity crisis?
2007-10-28 10:00:09 · update #1
but without good and bad there would be no motivation for science. except for money. which itself can be good or bad.
2007-10-28 10:13:43 · update #2
but what is the motivation behind science? to do good no? thats why there are nobel prises is science.
2007-10-28 14:58:54 · update #3
So "scientific progress" is not towards something good? mr. plain truth?
so the Nazi icebath experiments, for example, were scientific progress?
....just asking.
2007-10-31 08:38:20 · update #4
Most scientists could hardly care about what is good and and what is bad.
2007-11-01 14:47:26 · answer #1 · answered by Jacob Dahlen 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Morality in science? Someone forgot to explain to you how science is a f'in TOOL!!!!!!! Just like technology, well actually technology is the application of science, so its sort of the use of the tool of science. So really like any tool, lets say a hammer, its up the person envovled to deteremine the use of that tool. Be it build a house, or kill a neighbor. Thats why science can live with religion, but religion can't live with science. Bible-thumpers still can't draw a line between free-will and gods plan, so their in confuse about this, while science gets the leisure of seeing past it...... also little do people know morality is a tool, but were getting into some complex anti-symbolic notions their that the symbolistic nature of religion could not exsist in, but heck we still have spirtuality!!!
2007-10-31 06:15:31 · answer #2 · answered by Brutal Honesty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science deals with the physical, not philosophical. Many scientists are motivated by one philosophy or another(which can include a notion of good), but these philosophies are still something else.
2007-10-28 11:13:46 · answer #3 · answered by Yair Jeger 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those concepts are irrelevant to science. Science is not about morality. That's the place of religion. See Science and Religion http://www.bcbsr.com/topics/sciences.html
2007-10-28 11:10:32 · answer #4 · answered by Steve Amato 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scientists don't distribute vaccines, they just invent them.
2007-10-28 10:02:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋