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发表于 2009-8-5 10:26:26 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

TOPIC: ISSUE69 - "Government should place few, if any, restrictions on scientific research and development"
提纲：
1 科学是探索性的工作，free 才可以创新
2 科学的发展可能会跟道德等冲突
3 科学的发展可能会危及社会的其他方面
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TIME: 00:42:47
DATE: 2009/8/5 9:36:26

Scientific research has a great influence on our society. On the one hand, we are advised to provide the research works a free atmosphere. While on the other hand, we are afraid that some of the research will be harmful to our society. Thus, there should be a balance for the government whether or not to place restrictions on scientific research and development.
Firstly, the scientific research is a work in advance, it is so hard for the government even the public to decide whether or not a research is valuable that restrictions may be not proper. The scientific research is also a job with great creativity which should be provided with a free atmosphere. With a retrospect to the history of science, we will find that a good many of far-reaching research works came from free thinking of which the raw ideas may seem fantastic at the beginning. We need look no further than the outstanding scientist, Einstein, who proposed the Theory of Relative, his raw idea of the theory came from the thinking of that what would happen if one run as fast as the light, which will probably be considered as meaningless by the public. No one at that time could be able to predict that this fantastic idea would lead to a great revolution for Physics. Thus, free thinking without restrictions can encourage creativity to some extent, which is of vital importance to the scientific research.
However, since the scientific research is an exploration to the unknown world, thus, what will be brought by the research is hard to predict. Once the research work is out of control and can develop whatever one wants, there will surely be a lot of problems. It is always the case that a research can both be valuable and harmful, due to different application. With a right and beneficial motivation, the further research will deviate from the former motivation and become to a potential danger to the society. An apt illustration involves the clone of human being, which is a great challenge to the human ethics and moral standard, and it has upset us a lot although the motivation of the clone is harmless. Another example involves the nuclear weapon and biological weapon, which act like a bomb in our society, and they will bring piles of security problems to our world if used in the war. Recently, a German company even claimed that they had produced a kind of women swim suits, which will be dissolved at once the woman jumped into the water, and they claims that this can be gifts to the ex-girlfriends for revenge. Apparently, this is an invention with an evil intention, which should be forbidden definitely. Thus, to avoid some research works which conflict with the human moral and ethic standard, the government should place certain restrictions on scientific research and development.
Moreover, in some cases, the scientists will ignore the side-effects brought by the research due to a lack of fully thinking. The industrial revolution in 19 century has benefited our industry and economy a great deal, yet, with a great cost of environment pollution. Constrained by the time and their own knowledge, scientists at that times have little sense to protect the environment, thus they developed technologies and design machines that would give out poison water and air. What they concerned was only the effectiveness of a technology, ignoring all the other elements that would be harmful to our human being. The history told us that for a maintainable development, we should make a balance between the scientific research and the environmental reservation, which is an inevitable responsibility for the government. Thus, the government should place restrictions on scientific with a fully concerning of all the elements in our society.
A qualified government will be cleave enough to provide a free atmosphere to the scientific research, while at the meantime, place restrictions on them to avoid confliction with other elements to our society.