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标题: issue68 issue第一篇，求指点以建立关于issue的概念 [打印本页]

作者: 秋尽江南 时间: 2010-7-18 16:58:53 标题: issue68 issue第一篇，求指点以建立关于issue的概念

本帖最后由秋尽江南于 2010-7-20 14:59 编辑

NO. 68 Technologies not only influence butactually determing social customs and ethics.

In the past centuries, social customs have changed greatly accompanying with rapid technology development. I fundamentally agree that technologies have such a great impact on social customs that the former even determines the latter, while ethics are influenced by the turbulent changes of technologies implicitly.

Whatever else may be said, most peoplewould agree that technologies have influenced social customs in all dimensions.Consider the way people communicate. Technology has improved the efficiency ofcommunication by allowing immediate responses and offering people a broader circle of acquaintance, thus knitting the earth together. Before telephone was invented,people could only contact with each other by mail or paying a visit, which was inefficient and limited by geographical location. While telephone could help one keep in touch with only a small group of people, computer and Internetenable him/her to reach out to every corner of the world. Through submarine optical fiber cables, now people are used to chatting online and making friends within social networking systems (ie. Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, to name justa few). The most impressive example may goes cyber-dating. Men and women post their personal information on websites, contact online, and try to find their life-long partners. Technology reforms the traditional way of marriage. In a not dissimilar way, movies, television, and now YouTube offer us a wide varietyof choices to entertain ourselves; bicycle, car, plane are transforming the wayof travelling. Though technologies are scold of increasing life complexity andpsychological displacement, we cannot deny the great convenience and efficiency they bring.

When it comes to ethics, they are underchallenges from technologies while they are not influenced and determined soexplicitly as social customs are. For example, in the case of medical technology, vital ethical issues must be addressed. Genetic engineering makes it possible for parents to select the gender of their child, or even “design” a child as the parents like. However, is it justifiable to select the gender ofchild? Would it be ethical for people with fertility problems to decide whichfertilized embryos get implanted and discard the rest as being the"wrong" gender? Old ethics alone cannot answer questions above. Similarly,other technologies such as nuclear power and chemical plants, can directly threaten human life. Whether a scientsit should research and develop suchtechnologies or not is worth questioning. Technologies take old ethical questions and amplify their importance. Taking the possible negative effects into account, we need new standards of safety evaluation for radical researchand protections from military or terrorist misuse and abuse. A more thorough assessment of the potential impact of new technologies is in need before they are put into operation. By applying such a assessment, ethics will influenceand regulate the development of technologies in turn.

Technologies can be both a blessing and acurse. To avoid the negative parts, social customs and ethics have to evolve along with technologies to meet the increasing complexity of technologies and make sure that the innovations benefit all sectors of society.

作者: lingli_xiaoai 时间: 2010-7-20 13:37:39

先站位。。。半夜三更要睡觉明天起来以后改~

作者: lingli_xiaoai 时间: 2010-7-20 21:25:13

you assay is actually good...logic is clean and free of noticeable grammar mistake.. so I will not comment on the assay sentence by sentence. Just pointing out some of my concern, you divided your discussion into custom and ethnic, and discuss them separately, which is good way. The latter one is better than the first... in that... you discuss of custom is superficial compared with the part about ethnic.
since based on you assay, custom is only defined as the way of people doing things in their normal life..

but considering the definition of custom in following ways'

1,a set of agreed, stipulated or generally accepted rules, norms, standards or criteria, often taking the form of a custom
2, traditions

the examples you give in the example is more like discussing how technology make our life easier (except. you think technology changes the form of marriage (which is not supported by you online dating example.), which is not wrong, but can be better.

following is an paragraph discussing the same thing but if you read through, you can tell the difference and what I mean by superficial... (link to the whole thing
https://bbs.gter.net/viewthread.php?tid=208839&highlight)

Last but not least, there is no one but escape the dominance of technology. We live in a world guided by technique advancement; we behave in a way shaped by scientific development. For example, to the extent that people depend on cars as crutches, they actually contribute to the altercation of our mode of existence. And teenagers discover that owing a car, or even borrowing one on occasion, affords them a needed sense of independence from their parents. The same is true with mobile phone. Helping boost the mutual communication at one time, mobile phone has actually made ourselves trapped in a complex social net where we can no longer escape. What's more, advanced military technologies, facilitate the subjugation of an attacked nation’s territory on one hand and accelerate the ensuing reconstruction of its social patterns on another. It is with the help of high-tech weapons that assist the attacker to substitute the original customary principles or ethic laws of the vanquished states for a new system of social rules.

I am not saying you way of writing this issue is of anything wrong, but you could improve it from 4 to 5 standard, by discuss something in depth.

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