"Can Science Be Ethical?

In the article "Can Science be Ethical," Freeman Dyson argued that with evolution of science there must be an evolution of ethics to balance it. Else science would in turn become the destruction of mankind. There are two paths science can take Dyson says. Those paths are for the aid of humanity or to the destruction of humanity.

In BNW, humans are reproduced artificially using science. This concept is said to be void of ethics at the moment explains Dyson. People are skeptical of even Bio-Engineering cats and dogs, never mind human beings. In our world that subject is a sort of taboo. Some people think stem-cell research as unethical. However, Dyson explains that even though things are thought to be so illogical now, as soon as those things can work to save the lives of those people, they will not hesitate to grasp that science.

Humans are hypocritical when it comes to values of ethics and science. They may condemn something as immoral and wrong but the second it works for them, they are ready to fight for it. It's is in itself a vice of science. The destruction of mankind is what science brings said Dysons math teacher Hardy.

BNW shows how science is a tool for the powerful and rich. The World Controllers and the Director has the power to control how science and technology is used.

Then comes the argument of ethics. Sure we have technology and the means to use it, but should we use it for those means?

Sure we can clone but should we clone people or should we clone organs for the survival and the health of people.

Should we mass produce people for labor as in BNW? Should we retard certain beings, as the case is for the Epsilons and other castes in BNW, or use science as a method to manipulate life to get what we want? Isn't that what we do to our pets? Are we any better than the Director?

Such questions of ethics are posed upon our society in comparison to the society in BNW.