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本帖最后由 archaeology 于 2009-4-11 20:59 编辑
今天终于生出第一个issue,这个过程真痛苦,2天才把处子篇给憋出来了,难产对于孕妇的痛苦我也着实体验了一把,这个孩子可能有点畸形,大家有时间给看看吧。不甚感激!我好能吸取经验,继续孕育第二胎!
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When research priorities are being set for science, education, or any other area, the most important question to consider is: how many people’s lives will be improved if the results are successful.
The author asserts that the most important factor to consider is that how many people will benefit from the successful result when research priorities are being set for science education or any other areas. Undoubtedly, the ultimate objective of researches is to make people’s lives improved, researchers and rulers consider that how many people’s lives will be improved as one of the factors when deciding research priorities in fact. And is it should be the most vital question to consider? It seems not completely.
At first, how do people judge whether a research is successful? A prevailing attitude of what kind of research means a success is if it can benefit our society in a short time, years or even months commonly, because the result of research is evaluated by contemporaries first of all. It suggests if the research benefits contemporaries, people deem it successful. Therefore, the factor that how many people will benefit from the results is just reflecting short-time profits of a research, the research which improve lives in short period may be harmful to the society in the future. For instance, when Freon emerges initially, it brings us amounts of benefits no matter in industries or our normal lives, so people deem the research about Freon is a success, and its positive effects continue until our scientists find it can destroy our ozone layer after decades, which can lead to a disastrous consequence to human beings.
At the same time, the fundamental researches that differ from applied researches which aim to improve people’s lives often couldn’t bring people visual benefits instantly, and even scientists don’t know if they will benefit people, so we shouldn’t set fundamental researches as priorities at any time basing on author’s view, they wouldn’t improve people’s lives after succeeds. However, it is unreasonable obviously. As we know, x-ray has changed people’s lives on many areas in our modern society, but at the beginning x-ray research is regarded as a research which costs amounts of money and couldn’t give people any benefit. So we still shouldn’t ignore the fundamental research that seems to bootless to society.
Therefore, it is unsuitable to decide research priorities by seeing if people’s lives will be improved through the research result. Researchers and rules should regard the long-term influence of a research as the most important factor sometimes, while not the short-time profits. As all of us know, the cloning sleep Dolly gives us reams of surprise, which makes us realize that people can clone themselves one day. Many people could live longer by removing their dysfunctional organ and transplanting a new one, so if human cloning research be successful, many people’s lives could be improved certainly. But if people think the research from a long-term prospective, they could find that cloning human technology will cause disorder of society, its disastrous effects are deserved to consider than its positive ones which appear in a short time.
In conclusion, it is a question to consider that how many people’s lives will be improved through the successful results of researches, but actually it is not the most important question when research priorities being set at most time. We should think over the effects of researches from long-term ones, then decide which research should be set priority.
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