issue69 divine 第十一篇

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TOPIC: ISSUE69 - "Government should place few, if any, restrictions on scientific research and development"
Whether government should place restrictions on scientific research and development remains to be a challenging issue in our society. In my view, though the author's objection to government intervention contains some reasonable elements.
A totally void of restrictions would bring more problems than it solved, and it
would
turn out to be counterproductive in the development of both science and
society.

It should be admitted that restrictions exercised by governments, usually by
setting priorities for funding, and censorships for research, have an impact of
forcing the science to meet their need. Such interests imposed on science could do harm to the original intention of science:
to discover the truth of all things.
Theoretical scientists, or should they be called "pure scientists", seek
to find how everything acts and how the universe functions instead of concerned with the common interests. While these common interests are promised to be satisfied by governments, their inclination on the practical science, which deals with earthly issues, and the restrictions on the pure ones could do harm to the academic value of science. And the ignorance of pure science, which is likely to have great use in the future, would be considered improvident. It will
ultimately prevent mankind from development,


However, were their no restrictions at all, science would be likely to face more
problems than ones brought up with restrictions. Firstly, science development
is in some sense like a tree: Some of the unfavorable branches should be trimmed
to keep the whole tree healthy. And governments should take the responsibility of gardeners. Pseudoscience and junk science, for example, are
like the useless branches. Their existence prevent common people from an understanding of what real science is, and they compete with real science to grab more resources to develop themselves. However these branches produce only rubbish and illusions. In this case the government must trim these branches of bad science in order to make a better surroundings for real science to flourish.


Secondly, science, as a great source of power, if taken by malevolent individuals or groups , could be used against mankind and eventually pull
the society backwards. Thus supervision and restrictions must be set to prevent these illegal and anti-society development of science.
A very
striking issue today is the hi-tech crime and terrorism. The criminals, who take science as their weapons, have utilized some new techniques to fulfill their economical or political desires. These crimes significantly undermine the lives and property of citizens. Hence it comes to those in power to stop the development or wide spread of a certain kind of science achievements which has the potential to be used for illegal proposes.

In sum, restrictions on science may implant political interests into scientific studies and thus deviate the path of science, but no restrictions would become a disaster. Government in any conditions should not let science development freely without its supervision and intervention. After all, it is duty of the governors to ensure the society is not going into
a wrong direction or even going backwards.