Thanks to the economic boom and a rapid development of the science, the world has changed
dramatically. Now we can go everywhere all around the world in a day and our lives have become much more convenient and also prolonged. However, despite these adventages, lots of problems were also caused. An ethical problem, scientism, and environmental problems are the things.
First, an ethical problem. In Korea, it is important to respect man's dignity because of the deep rooted confucian ideas. Therefore cloning the human has been excluded. However, taking Dr.hwang's
research for an opportunity, which was about cloning the human, made the ethical problem, a dignity for a human clone or not, become a public issue. Speaking more detaily, the two conflicting ideas between whether a human clone has to be treated as real person or not led society to confusion.
Second, a scientism problem. As the science developed too fast, the people who think
the facts without science proofs are false, appeard. They only believe things based on a scientific
ideas, they neglect the traditional customs such as worship to the ancestors. Also scientism ignored people's morality and asethetic appreciation and repressed people to think imaginatively or creatively. The Lisa Simpson from the cartoon "The simpson" ,who is very erudite and clever in science field but who is insufficient in humanity , is a perfect example of scientism's contradictory.
Lastly, environmental problems. People may think science's growth made surroundings clean
because it's development created lots of eco-friendly products. However if we think with more care,
we can find it is just an illusion. Because of the science's development, whether it is intended or not,
many wars, explosion, outflow of the chemical substances were emerged and it polluted environments
and products to make surroundings clean are just a temporary solution.
In conclusion, rapid growth of the science have made people to enjoy bountiful lives. However,
it caused more disadventages such as lack of morality, social conflict, and an environmental problems.
Therefore, i believe that the development of the science damaged people, rather than it enriched
the humanrace.
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