Is science ultimately evil?

Is science ultimately evil?

What is the definition of "science"?
What is the definition of "ultimately"?
What is the definition of "evil"?

It really changes the answer to the original question depending on those definitions.

Answering the question without your definitions, I will say humans have been using "science" to kill each other for a long time. However, most scientific progress doesn't lead to increasingly more exotic ways to kill your fellow man. In reality, that's the case sometimes. Sometimes science is used to create technology to kill other humans more effectively than before. I don't think the desire to kill each other more effectively is human nature; I think human nature just tends to more effective processes in general. Killing each other is one of these processes. Therefore, I don't think science is ultimately evil.

Define "evil".

Furthermore, define the objective set of morals considered "good".

Now, provide evidence that studying the natural and physical world through rigorous and repeated testing and observation is, as a whole, working against "good" (defined earlier), or in a way that is consistent with "evil" (also defined earlier).

Was the comet that killed the dinosaurs evil?

Define "is". Are you asking if science is evil in the present tense ? If time is quantized, what measurement unit do you use to define the range of what "is" is?

Of course not.
Science is simply seeking to decipher the secrets of reality, that's not evil.

No, the way i'll make you suffocate on your blood in with engineering, which IS evil.

( no homo )

Playing word games doesn't help, and it doesn't matter whether science is evil or not. It's useful and I couldn't shitpost without it so I think I'm happy with its condition.

Please define '?' before asking anything

No. Science is just our way of objectively observing how the universe functions. It is independent of any 'morals'.

The applications of science, however, may sometimes be considered evil.

Of course not. Science improves our understanding of our world and our quality of life. Just like with anything, the assholes ruin it for the rest.

Of course it was. Aliens dorpped it hoping to destroy Earth, but made a miscalculations. They will soon come back to finish what they started.

I like how you can tell if something triggered Veeky Forums because they'll start asking you to define everything (instead of picking up a dictionary).

The answer is yes and no.
Some sciences hurt their research subjects ,both or either, physically and psychologically during experimentation and other sciences do not.
Hurting things, is, according to the dictionary evil.
And science according to dictionary is study of physical entities through experimentation among other things.
Happy?
In fact if using the dictionary was all we needed to do to answer your question then you could have done it yourself and there was no need to ask such a question.

You are wrong.

How is this a word game?
'good' and 'evil' are human constructs. And also entirely subjective.

Provide your definition of the phrase 'human constructs'.

But what does "definition" mean in this context?

List all the meanings of 'definition' in any context.
Ill point to the one I mean for you.

Give me your email. I'll send them to you.

Are the borg evil or neutral

Its okay, you can send it here.

According to the dictionary they are evil.

>word games
>concise definitions

you really dont belong here

philosophy major has never had to give a straight answer

"But what IS an answer, user?"

Science is a tool used to more accurately understand the universe, it is amoral like a wrench or a hammer or a gun. What you use that tool for doesn't have any effect on the tool, bashing someone's head in with a hammer doesn't make the hammer evil, it makes the murderer evil. The sciences used to create the Atomic bomb weren't evil, and the device itself cannot be evil, however after two examples of it's power sane humans collectively decided that anyone who used it again was either crazy or evil.

The people who create or use the tool of science can and sometimes are evil, but science is incapable of being evil because science cannot act, and because it cannot act it cannot act with malevolent intent.

science itself is neither good nor evil.
because "good" and "evil", kinda like this user hinted at is 100% subjective.

it can be used for good and bad things though
(..or can it? maybe the "good" i'm refering too is the atom bomb, surely you wouldn't agree. hue hue hue. oh yeah.. fucking subjectivity).

"Bullets are evil, not the person who pulls the trigger"
You are retarded
Also you are retarded

Yes. Science will always be considered evil by contemporaries because, at the moment, people are dedicating time/resources to something which only people of the future may benefit from.

How dare you do math while there are hungry people in the world! How dare you waste your time studying when our political party needs you! And so on.

A person is only acting as a result of combination of his genetics and environmental influences. He is not actually evil.

>implying two people who fundamentally and unknowingly disagree about what "good" means could ever come to a consensus without first agreeing on the definition

I bet you think communication isn't important.

What if OP and I were to use different dictionaries? What if I use a dictionary and OP doesn't?
Using common definitions is critical in any esoteric discussion.

Science is neither good nor evil. It's how it's used. Just like with the death ray.

Pretending that you know what a word means just from your intuition helps even less. If you want any productive answers to your philosophical questions, there must be a precise definition for EVERY word in your question.

Just because "define X" is usually the response to stupid questions like these, does not make it a meme, you dip

No, it is ultimately pragmatic. All science does, besides the more theoretical sciences, is meet human needs, whether it be making a more efficient car or designing better weapons than the other side. The defense industry is by far the biggest STEM employer, if that tells you anything, though. War has historically pushed scientific progress along more than luxury.

>"evil"
SPOOKS

>Is science ultimately evil?

No.

You have asked a stupid question.

If you own property, are you ultimately responsible for any damage it causes?

>MUH RELATIVISM

jesus christ you people are cancer

You're a fucking retard if you think shit like beauty or morality are absolute

If you are implying the Borg are evil, you are completely wrong.

They just clash with our beliefs of individuality. But they would bring peace, unity and basically infinite possibilities.

No but it has gone too far

Yes.

>they

Science is objective.

Also, the definition of "evil" changes depending on context.

No, Science is not "Evil."

People are both, individually and as groups, good and evil (to varying degrees), therefore, both good and evil will always come out of science.

The amount of good, or evil, which comes from scientific discovery and advancement is telling about the society and times in which the advancements were made - not the discoveries themselves.