and it is far too long for a facebook update.
This is just something that has been bugging me for a long time, and it is about time that I bring others' attention to it.
This is just something that has been bugging me for a long time, and it is about time that I bring others' attention to it.
Science / technology itself has no inherent ethos, just as a rock has no inherent ethos.
A rock may be used to grind flour to make bread to feed a village, or it may be used to stone a woman accused of adultery. Neither the stone itself, nor the geologic process which produced the rock is to blame; it is merely a tool to be used.
The responsibility lies in the hand that holds the tool, rather than the process that created the tool. Suggesting otherwise is offensive, as it attempts to alleviate the hand wielding the tool of either partial or full responsibility for its actions.
