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Do Science and Technology Lead to a Fall in Human Values?

Here I made an attempt to set out a vision on this topic in few thoughts. Scientific and technological advancements do not by themselves destroy human values and ethical factors. If we forget our past and the teachings of our ancestors, it is due to the all-round degeneration of our...

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tech expert, beginner blogger

Do Science and Technology Lead to a Fall in Human Values?

Feb 7, 2019•1

jayshi19

tech expert, beginner blogger

Do Science and Technology Lead to a Fall in Human Values?

jayshi19

Here I made an attempt to set out a vision on this topic in few thoughts.

Scientific and technological advancements do not by themselves destroy human values and ethical factors. If we forget our past and the teachings of our ancestors, it is due to the all-round degeneration of our character for which it is futile to blame science. Nowhere does science says that we should discard the basic values of life.

Science, after all, is only highly evolved common sense. The fact that common sense also concerns itself with many other facts and facets of life is not denied by science and technology.

The argument that it is science that is responsible for the... (read more)