Tuesday, April 22, 2014

The morals behind science

When we first started reading Cat's Cradle, the narrator talked about writing a book about the father of the atomic bomb, Felix Hoennikker. I was curious who the actual father of the atomic bomb was, and it turned out to be Robert Oppenheimer. Tyson had given us a link to a video called, "Now I am Become Death, The Destroyer of Worlds". In this short video, Robert expressed his feelings of when the first atomic bomb went off. With expanding technology, the atomic bomb was a great leap forward. The power locked behind such a beastly thing is too immense to comprehend. I think it was this power that worried Robert Oppenheimer. I recently beat Deux Ex: Human Revolution; I was given a choice to alter a broadcast sent out about human enhancement such as robotic limbs and sensory improvements. There was one against all science, against regulation, for regulation, and to send out nothing. I pulled a quote out from this game that fits perfectly, "I managed to hang on to my humanity - but the temptation to ignore it was always there... It's that temptation that so worries Taggart (A man looking for regulations on human enhancements). He's not afraid of freedom. He's afraid of the chaos that erupts when individuals have nothing but morality to constrain them,". Without morals, what are we capable of? Without any sense of right or wrong, what would be achieved and or destroyed? With progress witnessed by Oppenheimer, would anyone consider him crazy for not accepting the future he helped to create?

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