【Flyer杀G作文组】1月26日作业Issue88-By mirth

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Issue88 "Technologies not only influence but actually determine social customs and ethics." 技术不仅仅影响而且实际上是决定了社会传统和道德规范。
    Can technologies decide social customs and ethics, as the speaker maintains? In my view the speaker unfairly generalizes. Although technologies can influence the transformation of social customs to some extent, it is, however, ungrounded to claim that technologies determine social customs and ethics.
    As we view history, we can see how profoundly science and technology have changed our lives. In agriculture, with the introduction of mechanization and various technologies to promote the production of produce, the burdens of the struggle for survival were lessened. In industry, with so many technology innovations, such as the steam engine, which inaugurated the industrial revolution, people are freed from much burdensome labor. Before the invention of steam engine, people go to faraway places in a carriage, with the emergence of train, the pace of everyday life is accelarated greatly.
     In the second place, technologies indeed have an effect on the traditions of society other than material life. I cannot deny that tele-communication tools such as the telephone, fax and Internet, which have increasingly replaced “paper letters”, have become the major means of communicating. For instance, before the 20th century, the notion that women should stay at home, nurturing children, and caring for elders was so taken as an assumption that there was significant resistance to any tentative attempts to change it. However, technology made a change in this thinking possible. This unreasonable conviction was completely changed after the Industrial Revolution. As a result, many women now begin resplendent careers in factories, companies, governments and the like. The role of women in society is indispensable.         
     Although technology itself is incapable of possessing moral or ethical qualities, since “technology” is merely tool making. The ethics involved in the development of new technology-whether it is always, never, or contextually right or wrong to invent and implemnt a technological innovation. In the case of the ethics involved in the development of new technology, ethics of such things as computer security and computer viruses asks whether the very act of innovation is an ethically right or wrong act. Similarly, does a scientist have an ethical obligation to produce or fail to pproduce a nuclear weapon? What are the ethical questions surrounding the production of technologies that waste or conserve energy and resources? What are the moral issues surrounding the production of new manufacturing processes that might inhibit employment, or might inflict suffering in th third world? The moral problems arised by technologies could not be remedied sometimes.                  
      Nevertheless, we still should not make the hasty generalization that technologies determine social customs and ethics. Culture and surroundings play more vital roles than technology in determining social customs and ethics. As a result, people should restrict the development of technologies in some moral aspects, in order to prevent morals and ethics from being undermined. Laws are effective means to confine the the disbuse of cloning technology, when it is limited to medical treatment, it can contribute to the society.

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