Posted: Mar 10, 2018 2:05 am
jamest wrote:
Material comforts/etc. are not to be scoffed at, but the bottom-line still is whether science is short-sighted since it appears solely to appeal to the selfish.
We're all sat here in fear. Fear of destroying the planet/ourselves precisely because of scientific advancements. I mean, our last remaining hope (seemingly) is that science can get us to Mars before we do that. And then what, if we succeed? That our scientists will unveil a way of escaping Mars before we destroy that planet?
Seriously, people, wake the fuck up. Science is directly responsible for us needing to consider the questions posed previous. Deal with that in a manner which transcends your own personal comforts, before it's too late.
James
Here I can't help thinking you are confounding science with technology.
Understanding that a tremendous amount of energy can be released during fission or fusion processes is science. Building a bomb or a nuclear reactor out of that understanding is technology.
Now you might argue that the understanding is a proximate cause for the technology. But then the evolutionary trait of curiosity is a proximate cause for the desire for understanding. At least in a physicalist/materialist world