Ethics (was Re: [Techtalk] Open Standard for Video Streaming)

Erinn erinn at double-helix.org
Thu Oct 31 13:47:08 EST 2002


On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 05:10, Alvin Goats wrote: 
> You definitely don't want the medical or life sciences professions to
> set the rules! In a study performed in the early 1980's, it was found
> that the life sciences (botany, biology, zoology, medicine, et al) had
> the least amount of religious believers. That includes christian,
> budhist, jew, muslim, hindu and whatever else. 90 percent (at that time)
> were atheist or agnostic and had ethics of less than honorable quality.
> On the flip side, the AIP (American Institute of Physics) polled ALL the
> members of the physics community, physics students, physics teachers,
> professors, physicists in industry and military. They found that 90%
> plus had some religious faith (contrary to what the media suggests).
> Ethics is high, after all, we are fooling around with the most power
> things that can be used for mass destruction, as well as aid to mankind. 

Are you implying agnostics and atheists have no ethics?


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