【辉太郎杀G大队】7/31业 Issue88 by MC dragonfly

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TOPIC: ISSUE88 - "Technologies not only influence but actually determine social customs and ethics."

The advancing technologies have laid great influence on almost every realm of the world, including the social customs and ethics. The speaker even asserts technologies actually determine them while I believe it is the overestimating of the role technologies play. As for me, the technologies influence the customs and ethics rather than determine them.

I concede that the advancement of technologies constitute profound influence on social customs and ethics. The technologies innovations which inaugurated the industrials revolution have made the world quite different. So are the social customs and ethics. In the past, we conveyed our blessing and missing through the letters when festivals came. Because of the backward transportation, it took even months to cover the long distance to deliver them. Nowadays, we use mobile phones and e-mail to express our benedictions far more efficiently in festivals. During the Spring Festival in China, it has been estimated more than a billion short messages are transmitted to show benedictions, which obviously form a new custom in celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year. Changes also happened in the realm of ethics. Women were usually considered weaken and inferior to men by ancient Chinese. But the technologies and modernization has break up this feudal thought. It seems that technology lays great influence on our customs and ethics.

However, technologies are not mighty enough to determine the customs and ethics. These changes caused by technologies are largely phenomenon on surface, instead of the essence of customs and ethics. Although different forms of devices are used to communicate with each other, the basic requites of emotional communication remains the same. Our love for our family and lovers remains unchanged through the way of conveying is changing with the time. Technologies change our behaviors for its convenience they bring about, but they seldom change us in spiritual level. Moreover, the essence of customs and ethics are really complicated and many factors such as religious thoughts, philosophy ideology are involved to the final determination of the customs and ethics. Muslims’ taboo for pork and Buddhists for ahimsa are vivid examples. It is impossible to be exclusively determined by technology.

In contrast, the social customs and ethics will determine the application of technologies by laying some restrictions to some extent. Most technologies that are beneficial for human beings are encouraged as a matter of course while some others which contradict the general accepted ethics will be denounced. The cloning, particularly human cloning is controversial in ethic. Although it may contribute to regenerative medicine and provide organs for transplantation, which is of great value in therapy, it is still hampered in many countries for the ethic problems it may involved. Are they normal people as we are? How shall we treat clone humans? Who give us the right to produce them than use them as for medical use? Considering these questions, it is not strange the UNESCO's Universal Declaration on Human Genome and Human Rights claims that cloning contradicts human nature and dignity. The denouncement on the use of mass destructive weapons such as biochemical and nuclear ones also show the restrictions of ethics and customs on technology. In this sense, technology seems determined rather than determine the ethics and customs.

In conclusion, mighty as the technology is, it is not able to determine the social customs and ethics. It may influence our customs and promote the change of ethics, but that is far from determination. Technologies are also influenced by the ethics and customs.

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The advancing technologies have laid great influence on almost every realm of the world, including the social customs and ethics. The speaker even asserts technologies actually determine them while I believe it is overestimating the role technologies play. As for me, the technologies influence the customs and ethics rather than determine them.

I concede that the advancement of technologies constitute profound influence on social customs and ethics. The technologies innovations which inaugurated the industrials revolution have made the world quite different. So are the social customs and ethics. In the past, we conveyed our blessing and missing through the letters when festivals came. Because of the backward transportation, it took even months to cover the long distance to deliver them. Nowadays, we use mobile phones and e-mail to express our benedictions far more efficiently in festivals. During the Spring Festival in China, it has been estimated more than a billion short messages are transmitted to show benedictions, which obviously form a new custom in celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year. Changes also happened in the realm of ethics. Women were usually considered weaken and inferior to men by ancient Chinese. But the technologies and modernization has break up this feudal thought. It seems that technology lays great influence on our customs and ethics. (例子都很有力！)

However, technologies are not mighty enough to determine the customs and ethics. These changes caused by technologies are merely phenomenon on surface, instead of the essence of customs and ethics. Although different forms of devices are used to communicate with each other, the basic requites of emotional communication remains the same. Our love for our family and lovers remains unchanged through the way of conveying is changing with the time. Technologies change our behaviors for its convenience they bring about, but they seldom change us in spiritual level. Moreover, the essence of customs and ethics are really complicated and many factors such as religious thoughts, philosophy ideology are involved to the final determination of the customs and ethics. Muslims’ taboo for pork and Buddhists for ahimsa are vivid examples. It is impossible to be exclusively determined by technology.

In contrast, the social customs and ethics will determine the application of technologies by laying some restrictions to some extent. Most technologies that are beneficial for human beings are encouraged as a matter of course while some others which contradict the general accepted ethics will be denounced. The cloning, particularly human cloning is controversial in ethic. Although it may contribute to regenerative medicine and provide organs for transplantation, which is of great value in therapy, it is still hampered in many countries for the ethic problems it may involved. Are they normal people as we are? How shall we treat clone humans? Who give us the right to produce them than use them as for medical use? Considering these questions, it is not strange the UNESCO's Universal Declaration on Human Genome and Human Rights claims that cloning contradicts human nature and dignity. The denouncement on the use of mass destructive weapons such as biochemical and nuclear ones also show the restrictions of ethics and customs on technology. In this sense, technology seems determined rather than determine the ethics and customs. (你的例子越来越生动有趣了~~)

In conclusion, mighty as the technology is, it is not able to determine the social customs and ethics. It may influence our customs and promote the change of ethics, but that is far from determination. Technologies are also influenced by the ethics and customs.


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