Traditionally, scientists are dedicated to improving the world. However, sometimes, their discoveries have negative effect on the world in a variety of way. Despite of it, scientists are not required to be responsible for this. This is because their most of discoveries are conducted by not their personal purposes but government' order. Also, side-effect on discoveries follow behind excellent invention.
Firstly, the reason that scientists are not needed to be responsible for negative effect on their discoveries is that their most discoveries are conducted by governments' order. Generally, governments invest their substantial amount of fund to support scientists and professors to find new theory or result of experiments. Thus, in most of cases, scientists are dedicated to accomplish governments' purposes. and thus, not scientists but governments should be responsible for negative impact on their discoveries. For example, Hee-Su Lee, Korean scientist, is best example of this. He is a person who improved a weapon to broke out the Korea War. Actually, at that time, he was criticized due to his improvement and even, suffered from stranger's menace. However, after twenty years, a report reveled that he just followed government's order and thus all people do not criticize him now anymore. This demonstrates that in some case, we misunderstand that scientists cause negative impact on their discoveries. However, many discoveries are conducted by governments' order.
Secondly, in order to improve people's lives, we should consider side-effect on discoveries to some degree. Against our expectations, sometimes, excellent products that scientists invent have negative effect on people' lives. To be specific, although cars make our lives more comfortable, a substantial number of people are dyed of car accidents every year. Also, even though computers help us to deal with our tasks in a more effective way, our lives become more complex and busy because of it. From this fact, we can know that negative effect frequently follow behind prominent invention and this seem so natural that we can not defend this side-effect. Thus, scientists are not required to be responsible for negative impact on their discoveries. |