(September 16, 2012 at 11:25 am)Haydn Wrote: But thats not what is happening here. And i don't see this , or some dystopian fantasy being a good argument against progress with this.
Perhaps not, but that is the way it usually starts and we have a bad habit of not learning from history.
I see a lot of good in this new science, but I also see the great potential for misuse. It would seem that now is the time to set regulations in place to discourage or displace these potential threats.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy