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I think this is only true because people don't know how/the tools have been restricted/the freedom not given to people I think what the above person is saying
by redanddead 4y ago
I think this is only true because people don't know how/the tools have been restricted/the freedom not given to people
I think what the above person is saying is that one day, even if people try to restrict the ability, technology will advance to a point where anybody will be able to do it.
What do we do then?
- tsimionescu 4y agoThe point of banning research is exactly to prevent this eventuality. Technology doesn't advance by itself: someone has to be actively advancing it.
- haimez 4y agoTechnology does advance regardless of your ability to ban it, because bans only form a system that locally restricts research- but globally, research will march forward somewhere. Banning research on a topic is fundamentally like burning books- but enforcing some consistent concept of ethics within a field of research is critical.
- tsimionescu 4y agoAgain, you claim that, but evidence shows that banning research on human cloning has indeed stopped it from happening, even though a sheep was successfully cloned almost 30 years ago (and the technology is not significantly different).