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Science and technology
- Experimentation (animals and humans) and the role of ethics in decision-making
- Inventions and the role of ethics in the control of their use (e.g. nuclear inventions)
- Scientific and technological advances and decisions about who benefits
- Human rights and the conflict with the use of technology, e.g. surveillance, data storage, cyber crime
- A religious perspective on these issues in science and technology
Issues arising
- Should science be controlled by ethics, and, if so, which ethical system?
- Is it better for ethics to be reactive – to respond to new scientific ideas?
- Can a scientific discovery be ‘undiscovered’?
- How far should society allow religion to control scientific and technological development?
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