Has science gone too far?
 

Discuss.

How can science go too far?

Depends on what you think the meaning of science is.

Certain things have, but some good some bad really

I think science is putting effort into the wrong things sometimes....Im sure there's more constructive ways people can use their intelligence and money than to come up with another boner pill or a way to put dog ears on someone while they take a picture.

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then again, this is the same society where a government spent millions of dollars to determine if Tom Brady knowingly deflated a football....the whole world is fucked.

Listen, until I have a sex robot that looks like Scarlett Johansson then science needs to keep fuckin plugging away. Like, what's taking so long? I'd be willing to put a solar panel on the back of her head. I'm all for renewable energy. Maybe even a little turbine in her pucker hole that spins when I spunk off. I'd give back to the grid. I could single handedly restore power to Puerto Rico. Fuckin he'll science. Keep up.

Lazy thread.

Depends on how you look at it, because what you just described is the entire point of our capitalist society. Maybe other than the tom brady thing. I'm willing to bet money for every dog ear app or boner pill you can find there are new technologies coming up or horizons being bridged in medicine. You honestly can't expect average americans to cut out hedonism, it's never gonna happen. Middle class people spend about 50% of their cash on luxuries, wealthy 60%, poor 40%. So hedonism is a far bigger part of American Society than you'd think.

Also, the average american isn't all too intelligent (and most people actively live inside of a dunning-Kruger self-circlejerk so me, or whoever is reading this will likely fit into that average category) so before you could ever get slightly close to having everyday americans start researching cancer instead of developing dick pills for a quick cash-grab- you'd have to have some type of system (perhaps a part of school) implementing those values in people who haven't grasped them.

Science itself is just a means of looking at the world. It's not good or bad until someone uses it to do something good or bad. I suppose what I mean is: have some areas of scientific research gone too far?

I'm fairly sure that the answer is yes, although we won't know it until some drunken biology grad student trips and breaks the Petri dish full of a supervirus that turns your organs into liquid shit. Or something like that.

In any case, the real problem is humans misusing it. It's like giving a gun to a toddler.

I think a more honed in topic that can serve as an avatar for this question is CRISPR, I've seen many people act like the ability to (among other things) genetically alter people or babies as to reduce or eliminate chances of certain diseases is playing god, and "science going too far."

I believe the only way science goes too far is developing things that have the potential to either end us all, or severely inhibit the progress of humanity in one way or another. which I think it already has, some would argue decades ago. It's a premier luxury we haven't seen more lethal combat between nations in recent times.

Well we've basically eradicated Darwinism in the human species which is no bueno for evolution so now were modifying the human genome to make up for it. Makes perfect sense. I say science has gone just far enough.

I would go a step further and suggest that we strictly limit procreation to our "genetic elite," and clone the best of the best. But of course that will never fly.

We should definitely have some Island shit where we clone ourselves to harvest their clone organs so we can live for 200 years. Now that I mention it, that movie shouldn't have been called The Island. Shoulda been called Organ Cloners.


Damn I'm good.

If we just harvested the organs from criminals, the organ donor problem would probably disappear. We wouldn't even have to execute them, we could just wait for them to die naturally. If we add this is a stipulation for paroled prisoners it would be even better.

So we're just going to overlook this post huh? Lmao

Yeah, isn't Scarlett Johansson over the age of 20? Aggo's a weirdo who likes old hags

Den titties aint 20

Says you...both the left and the right are a 10

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I always felt bad for Karl Marx....its the same reason communism could never work. I know there are a lot of great people making huge advances, most of whom and which we will never know much about....and thats sad that their innovations take a back seat to dog ears and talking cat apps. Ive been told I shouldnt be mad about people using their talents to further dumb down the populace instead of finding ways to contribute meaningfully. There's just too much demand for bullshit and the bills gotta get paid. So I guess, no, science hasnt gone too far....humanity tho is beyond saving.

Science goes too far when it doesn't consider ethics or socio-political consequences. A war with nuclear weapons on a large enough scale could literally render us extinct. Did they consider that while it was under development? Even today, scientists are pursuing all sorts of things for which they don't know what all the consequences and ramifications will be, but they should have an inkling that it could potentially be catastrophic.

Some extremely intelligent people seem to be really dumb socially and unemotional.

@Rant

I think the problem with Science and Technology is that we're in such an ever-changing state that it's hard to fully grasp the ramifications of these fields. At no point in history has a human had access to all this knowledge, stimulation and innovation that we have. The Internet can be it's own realm of life where we're not living for life itself, we're living for the virtual life.

Back to the original question, No. I don't think it's gone far enough.

science hasn't gone far enough, mainstream science needs to up its game dem motherfukkas lame, word.