Should scientists run the government?
Yes
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No
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Government is not a new thing. In fact, it predates the concepts that form the basis of modern science. Government appears in every culture in one form or another and is probably a natural extension of human social structure. You need to support your claim that government can't run without technology. Side: No
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Is theft, murder, slavery, and kidnapping all justifiable if a scientist does it? Would Nazi Germany have been better off if the scientists running those experiments were instead in charge? Scientists aren't moral agents or even right just because they've dedicated a certain amount of years to a certain discipline. I have quite a few friends who dedicate much of their lives to chemistry and biology, and they simply don't care about the rights of others. Science is the pursuit of knowledge. It holds no authority over the role of society. It's just a tool for us to better understand how certain things work. Psychologists are the only scientists that understand people themselves, but even so Psychologists (and I study Psychology, so it's not like I hate them) can be detached from humanity. They see humans as mathematics. Government is a mistake that dumb ape descendants made up a long time ago. Over time it seemed to just make more sense to diminish the scope of government over people. A Democratic Republic WITH a Constitution came to try and make every human being as protected and a part of government as possible without getting rid of it. Much of Socialist ideas are to have government serve the people completely. But I think more and more people are starting to realize that the answer is to just get rid of government. While the problem originally was humans hurting other humans, all that did was make it systematic. Simply that idea of a few ruling over many and organizing an entire society to be able to do God knows what; it's resulted in the Holocaust, the Communist work camps and mass murders, the Inquisition, the Guillotine age of fear, the Crusades, inflation, the Great Depression, the expansion of poverty, destruction of environments, War on Drugs, the War on Terror. The thing about government is that in order to get something done, you only need to convince the people already in charge. Even in a Republic we really only have a choice between a Democrat and Republican, and both of them support most of the same shit, or support some good things but support a bunch of bullshit. No matter what, we all have to agree to whatever the majority decided on (with little belief that their vote mattered anyway.) Side: No
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They're geeks and would most likely want to boost education in society and could lead to no equal rights for those incapable of getting to the 'normal' national level- their fellow geeks will get richer while the dumb-dumbs will get poorer... And stuff like that. Fucking geeks. Side: No
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