🚀 go-pugleaf

"John Mazor" <mazorj@verizon.net> bails out of the logical realm by
using the cliched "troll" slander, which does not work in REAL LIFE.
Though he can avoid the points raised, others have noted the same
problems with the recklessly of the scientific community and the
need for the community to take responsibility for what it causes.


In November 1945, three months after the atomic bombings, Oppenheimer
stood firmly behind the scientific attitude, saying, "It is not possible
to be a scientist unless you believe that the knowledge of the world,
and the power which this gives, is a thing which is of intrinsic value
to humanity, and that you are using it to help in the spread of knowledge
and are willing to take the consequences."

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html


I regularly praise technologies that reflect reasonable practices of
democracy, justice, ecological sustainability, and human dignity.
Unfortunately, a great many of the technical devices and systems 
that surround us are designed, built and deployed in flagrant disregard
of humane principles. To an astonishing degree, today's technological
society is based upon a collection of bad habits inherited from the
past. A partial list of these habits includes: 

- waste of material resources; 
- destruction of living species and ecosystems;
- exploitation of working people;
- pollution of the air, land and water; 
- surveillance as a means of social control; 
- homogenization of cultural expression; 
- militarism as first response to disagreement and conflict.

Langdon Winner