Ah, Nancy, take care. Were life to be that simple and so balkanized. Maybe
the fact that
we have so balkanized learning in our institutions and in our own minds, that
we have
ignored so often ignored the admonishment of Edison, a scientist, is exactly
what Stein
was talking about. Sure, history tells us that science has aided in increasing
both the
quality and longevity of life. I wouldn't be here if it weren't for the
advances that
allowed me to survive cancer and a massive cerebral hemorrahage. Science,
however, also
has had a hand in shortening and diminishing life. If I had been born in
Bobrika instead
of New York when I was, I wouldn't be here. Uncontrolled science, like
anything that is
uncontrolled and carried to its extreme, is a bad that often outweighs its
good. Like it
or not, the likes of Mengele and those involved in the T-4 project and those
engaged in
the high altitude experiments and those engaged in medical experiments said
justified
themselves by arguing that "in the name of science" created its own moral and
ethical
code, and that the quest for knowledge about life justifies the means even if
it means
taking life. That's what Stein is talking about.
Make it a good day.
--Louis--
Louis Schmier
http://therandomthoughts.edublogs.org/
Department of History
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