Immoral Advances : Is science out of control?

Pauls' Wheel of Reasoning:

Question of Issue: The advances of Science and Technology and how it goes against moral and ethical judgements

Purpose: To show and exemplify the fact that science causing lots of advances in technology, causing immorality and unethical purposes in creating such technological stuff.

Evidence: 1) "many controversies over scientific advances are based on ethical concerns. In the past, the main areas of contention have included nuclear weapons, eugenics and experiments on animals, but in recent years the list of “immoral” research areas has grown exponentially"

2) "He has coined the more disparaging term “yuk response” to describe this reaction, and believes that we should challenge the idea that repugnance is a reliable moral guide and the ultimate arbiter."

Assumptions: That all aspects of science is immoral and that technology is generally harmful based on his point of view which is that science causes immoral judgements

Point of View:That science is immoral despite all the benefit that science can bring about

Concepts: Relationship between science and ethics / morals and how science is inversely proportionate to ethical judgement

Implications: Moral issues is inversely proportionate to science and technology

Inferences: Author regards morality to the backbone of science and technology

Summary:

Science and technology undoubtedly has improved our lives, but there are many controversies over science and technology. Most of the controversies surround unethical and immoral thinking as well as purposes for their own works. However, in the present world, there are still many scientists that consider science to be morally neutral. They feel that they should not pass any judgement on others’ works as science and technology is not subjective and affects everyone. Therefore they feel that scientific illiteracy means that the scientist has a moral judgment towards the topic that he or she is working on. However, if scientists want to tackle these immoral and unethical judgements on people’s works, the scientists need to understand more, and condemn less. Scientific knowledge should be based on knowledge alone and not by passing moral or emotional biasness on others' works. The concept that repugnance is a reliable moral guide should be challenged to make justifications for people’s initial intuitions of right.