Science and the Scientism vision have proven unable
to articulate a moral vision. They have vaporized
their collective moral selves, so to speak. There can be no moral vision
whose crowning achievement is an apocalyptic event
in which all moral characters are vaporized!
After stockpiling thousands of nuclear
warheads and so ensuring the inevitability
of a global nuclear war—with its nuclear winter and other yet
determined worldwide horrors—the "scientist as
moral agent" has become an oxymoronic, self-delusionary,
and practically nonsensical topic of discussion.
Where scientists would claim that the search for Truth
should have no bounds, Earthfolk see the scientific
effort and the Scientism Big Story crippled by what
the creation of the atomic bomb revealed, namely, that there is no
one within the scientific community who can answer, “When
is enough, enough?” or “Even
though we can, should we do it?”
In short, the scientific community’s morality and the morality
which emerges from Scientism is a variant of “Might makes
right!” Both the Scientific community and Scientism reveals
itself as kin of the Warrior in that each is “afraid of
its Shadow.”
Most Scientists and Scientismists see themselves as
discoverers in the Warrior’s Quest mold. They
fearlessly seek to “Go where no human has gone
before!” However, unlike the fictional Star Trek adventurers,
no Prime Directive of non-interference
has ever been articulated. The opposite, in fact, continues to occur
at every level of scientific inquiry, that is, heedlessly probing
and breaking through every boundary, with a nod
to moral issues only after a crisis or a catastrophe erupts.
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