How can you or your society decide ethically which knowledge should or should not be pursued?
How can you or your society decide ethically which knowledge should or should not be pursued?
I strongly believe that our society and myself do believe that research into areas of knowledge should not be stopped because of all the ethical complications. Once the knowledge is revealed society will be able to create laws and regulations to help contain it if necessary. One of the ethical complications is that there are to many perceptions and ideas of what the terms knowledge, society, and ethical mean. Knowledge according to the oxford dictionary ‘is the awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a person, fact, or thing.” An American philosopher, poet, and essay writer, Martin Fischer once said, “knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.” This helps support the argument that knowledge is to general to state what we should learn and what not. Ethical according to the Oxford dictionary means, ‘relating to morals, especially as concerning human conduct.’ Ethics are very different in the many variety of cultures that we have in our world today. Even then within countries the ethics can be different, ethics are not something general that someone can have or not. In World War Two, 1945, the Americans were at war with the country Japan. The Americans did not want a long and expensive war therefore they introduced the idea of the Atomic Bomb. The Americans did some tests and after confirming that they worked they used these types of weapons on the city, Hiroshima. This then obligated the Japanese to give in to the Americans fulfilling the American’s goals, a short and not costly war. The damage done with the immense pressure from the Atomic bombs brought up many ethical questions, for example, whether their use and development were considered morally correct or morally wrong. This discussion was never continued because of the pressure of World War II and more important issues such as the restoration and rebuilding of all the countries damaged in the war. Society and myself should be glad that our society has not come to the era of the use of Atomic Bombs to solve all problems thanks to the social organization that helped prevent this so far. Society according to the Oxford dictionary refers to it as, “living associated with others or companionship with others.” Therefore, the entire society has to get along and keep peace in order for the world to exist in the future. If it came to the atomic bomb era their would be no future anymore. My point for this is that society and one’s self are whom the future of the world depends on and what ethics to use to keep peace and order.
