The Ethicality Of Science

“The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants” General Omar Bradley. Our lives revolve around the makings of our thinking. The creation of tools to extend body and mind, pushing humanity to unimaginable limits, this is the nature of human science. In our attempt to further ourselves, we often have put our ethics in hind view, passing over the true benefits and hindrances of what we create. Yet, in retrospect, nations have realized that with great benefit also come equal or greater consequences. Restrictions have begun stopping ‘evils’ of science. The first look at ethics in science were seen with the after math of the second world war; we continue to see some ethical restriction with current technology and can only hope to see it in the future. At what point will our Ethics finally catch up to our technology?

The aftermath of World War 2 caused the world to turn around and examine the extent of our technology. With the introduction of the atomic bomb in the Second World War, the allies were given a weapon so powerful that no one dare provoke them. The benefit of the technology was lost when Russia was also given th

e matching muscle. Humanity was given the potential to annihilate itself. The World realized the defect in this and soon began dismantling the weapons of terror. Unfortunately, it is to late too turn back the decision of designing the bomb, a fact we may one day regret if the current rise of terrorism find use in atomic weapons.

Recently, they have produced a chicken, called the Pink Chicken, which grows at an accelerated rate and does not mature feathers. This allows for a chicken easier cleaned when killed; this leads too one of those fine lines between the good of humankind and our ethics. It is rather sick we would change a living creature for such an insignificant reason. Unfortunately, ethical restrictions do not exist to prevent this type of situation. Imagine a great war with millions of soldiers. Each soldier is just a copy of the one standing next to him, expendable by his nation because more of him will be produced. This is perhaps what most people fear of cloning. Genetic Engineering has allowed the cloning of human embryos, yet these embryos are not allowed to mature because of those fears. If these lines are crossed, we may one day see wars fought by genetically altered clones.

Nanotechnology is a new comer to the game of science. It is intent to miniaturize current technology to that the size of a single atom. The only restriction it faces, for the moment, is the technology to chill these little computers; they generate an intense amount of heat. Once we have passed Nanotechnolo

Some topics in this essay:
Genetic Engineering, Omar Bradley, World War, Pink Chicken, Alberta Einstein, Ryan Potter, world war, War IV, genetic engineering, War III, humanity unimaginable, scientists begun, current technology, little computers,