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Comment on: Finding a Non-Moralistic Solution

Bigthink — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:58:35 +0100

Functionality is more important than who it benefits, unless the overall trend of this functionality is towards an overall dysfunction of the entire system.

Comment on: Finding a Non-Moralistic Solution

Bigthink — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:05:41 +0100

I don't understand this argument. Does that mean that if something that is not moral (as is understood in its traditional sense) and technocratic is 'amoral'? Should morality only be looked at from the perspective of rewards and punishment? Should we assign morality to forms of technology?

Comment on: Finding a Non-Moralistic Solution

Bigthink — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:52:44 +0100

Prof Pinker states, not all problems have a moralistic solution. He is using a wrongly inverted paradigm of science. He should instead understand that many technological solutions have moral problems. He needs to understand that science needs to be part of a wider framework of ideas including social or moral codes. It is the amoral, as distinct from immoral, nature of science that imposes that need upon us. I have developed this idea further at www.nobrainer.me.uk/Proposition1.htm

Comment on: Finding a Non-Moralistic Solution

Bigthink — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:05:38 +0100

In terms of his doctor scenario, why not do both. Technology cannot completly get rid of human error completly from medicine unless they get rid of or severly limit the human roll in the process so the punishment for being careless needs to be in place but that suggestion about the IV tube is a completly valid one that would saves lives. It is innovative solutions like the one suggested that better the human condition and those should definitly be promoted.