[MD] Social Imposition ?

[David M]

Hi Case

So you are agree that science is a tool
that can be used to make human being 'means'
when they should be 'ends'.

David M

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> 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
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> 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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