[MD] Social Imposition ?

[Case]

Turn on the television. Go shopping. Do you see any evidence that scientific
techniques for behavioral control are being subjected to public policy
considerations? I don't.
Case

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Case

We need to seek a middle way. Social control
dressed up as science is a real danger, setting out
laws where there should be open choices for
the polity to take.

David M

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> [David M]
> But what are these sciences for?
> To control human beings? To reduce choices?
>
> [Case]
> Science looks at what is you want to know about what ought to be. Science
> can and should inform such choices but that it not it chief concern.
>
> Once can argue that social sciences are being used by political and monied
> interests to control human beings. I too, would complain about much of 
> what
> is being done in this regard these days. But would you prefer to leave it
> totally up to chance? Much as I rant about my affection for Chaos and
> uncertainty, my love of science stems from it's ability to mitigate 
> against
> them.
>
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