ALL progress in science and technology has an impact on people’s lives. Often these effects are positive-antibiotics, computers and electricity have made our lives safer, easier and more comfortable. But inventions can bring suffering and injustice, such as nuclear war, pollution and road accidents. How do we decide what is the right and wrong use of science? These difficult choices lie in the realm of ethics.
Few of us would argue over the chemical formula of sulphuric acid, or the right names for the bones in the human skeleton, but when it comes to ethical questions there is often…
