Destructive Science

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Destructive Science
    Although science can advance and improve society, science can also destroy the people it was
intended to serve. Scientists have long held the belief that sacrifice of a few is justified by the beneficial
potential for the masses and therefore have traditionally used animals and even at times humans as the
subject of experiments. Society itself has also predominantly accepted the scientist's view, and welcome
new experiments, hoping for new scientific advances that will help society. With new technology, power
comes easily to those who learn to harness it, and scientific research has expanded the power of the
common person to levels where one man can literally destroy the world.
    Although science is researched by people to answer questions of "what if," and also to benefit
society, the experiments which enhance scientific knowledge is destructive to the one being experimented
upon. In amassing the massive amount of scientific knowledge, an even greater number of animals have
been destroyed. Such destruction is now at times thought of as essential to an experiment. Science has
learned that subjects must be sacrificed for advancement of knowledge. Thus the 20th century version of
religious animal sacrifice is performed everyday in laboratories, with the scientists hoping that the use of
animals themselves will bring scientific enlightenment.
    To add to the problem, science not only destroys in the process of new knowledge, but also creates...

Submitted by: digitalessays
Date Submitted: 12-18-07 2:11am
Category: Social Issues
Words: 375
Pages: 1.5