Our forefathers, with all their faults were a lot wiser than us.
Iphones and boeing 747's don't make us better.
We are in the most decadent society the world has ever seen.
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You're getting all confused, mixing morality and ethics with physical laws of nature.
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The physics of a proton has nothing to do with ethics.
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The physical dimensions and parameters of the earth is not a matter of good vs. evil.
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The moral depravity of our current age is not a barometer of our current ability to assess physical reality.
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I agree that in antiquity there were men with far more wisdom in moral matters than can be found today.
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It is as though the popular trend has been pushed toward eschewing the moral wisdom of the ancients.
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But don't get that mixed up with the advances we have made in mechanical engineering and manufacturing.
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There are two extremes, both of which are erroneous:-- One erroneous extreme says that modern scientists like Hawking can be entrusted with making credible pronouncements on the morality of using nuclear energy in the prosecution of a war. Their proficiency in physics actually gives them no qualification to make any such moral judgments.-- The other erroneous extreme says that because of our moral decadence, modern scientists and engineers cannot be believed when they assess entirely physical realities such as the distance from Earth, to the moon, to Jupiter, to Mars, or to the sun; or that just because what the specific mechanisms of magnetism or gravity are isn't known we therefore are unable to make use of magnetic fields or the forces of gravitational fields..
You can compare this situation to the modern practice of medicine. A medical doctor might have no idea of how the aging process is tied up with certain mysterious processes in the mitochondria, but he can still administer the correct precise amount of a particular drug to induce a safe, temporary sleep for surgery.
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In ancient times there was a wise Greek physician named Hyppocrites, after whom was named the Hyppocratic Oath.
Doctors have traditionally adhered to this as a moral basis for their practice.
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conflict between ancient wisdom and our currently increasing moral decadence has risen to the point where modern medical students no longer have to be concerned with accepting this moral foundation -- or by refusing it risk losing professional credibility. Because modern doctors are no longer required to adhere to the Hyppocratic Oath.
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