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Governments should not fund any scientific research whose consequences are unclear.

Given the increasing demands of the society and the limited financial capability of national governments, there are people arguing that governments should only fund scientific researches whose consequences are predictable, as for those research with unclear results, government should not fund them. In my opinion, whether governments should or not financially support scientific researches depends on the nature of the scientific researches rather than the clarity of the research results. More specifically, in terms of commercially fields and ethically controversial researches, government should not fund them, as for the theoretically researches, such as the development of international relations theory, governments should support them.

First, as for commercially fields, governments should not support these researches and should level them to corporations, even though the valuable technologies, such as the drone. Such projects should be funded by private companies, such as China’s Dajiang Corporation, which is a leading figure in developing and producing drone in the world. Concretely speaking, Dajiang has mature technologies and enough funding to maintain its development and research. Compared with governments, these robust corporations have sensitive feeling about market, profiting is relatively attainable for them. Moreover, it is also unfair for common taxpayer to afford the potential lose, especially in light of they even cannot receive any rewards if social corporations gain profits. In short, shouldering profits and loses by corporations themselves are more reasonable.

Second, in the field that might lead to ethically controversial disputes, governments should stay away from them. For instance, since the success of cloning technology in a sheep, the plan of cloning humans is on the horizon. Although such projects might bring a host of benefits for biology and health care, the potential consequences are still obscure for us right now. Put differently, we cannot afford the potential destructive results for the possible existing benefits.

Third, in terms of theoretically researches, even though the research results are not clear, governments still should fund them and make sure they have enough funding to conduct their researches. For example, with the rise of China and given the lack of Sinic international relations theory, it is reasonable for the Chinese government to support the development of the subject. Without theoretically support, it is hard for other countries to understand deeper about the deeper means of China’s foreign behaviour. Developing sinic international relations theory is necessary even though we are not sure about the result, because such projects would contribute Chinese people as well as other countries through dispel misgiving.

In conclusion, funding scientific research or not relies on the nature of the projects. As before-mentioned, if the projects are commercial and might violate ethical rules, government should turn its back on them, while on the fields of theoretically researches, such as international relation theory, government should support them with funding.


太累了，29分钟才写了470，本来以为30分钟500很容易，没想到这么难，我感觉我打字够快了啊，不过还得加强，继续努力


回想了一下，中间第二个例子需要改一下，应该找一个会普世影响人类的并且是政府还拿不准主意的，那啥克隆这个不太好，还是得改一下