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For example, towards the end of Falling Free Van Atta finds an old memo in his e-mail with orders to kill the Quaddies: "Item: Post-fetal experimental tissue cultures. Quantity: 1,000. Disposition: cremation by IGS standard biolab rules" (p. 293). Van Atta notices that the order came from "General Accounting and Inventory Control" and was signed by "some unknown middle manager in the GA& IC back on Earth." Van Atta says, "I don't think this twit even knows what Quaddies are." Similarly, non-sensical orders come down all the time in the military, which is organized along corporate lines, from people who know nothing about local situations.
In a large corporation it is difficult to affix moral responsibility on individuals. When scandals erupt (Enron, for example), the CEO will claim he didn't know anything about what was going on. Employees lower in the hierarchy need their incomes, and they may be reluctant to "make waves" when morally reprehensible decisions come down. They don't want to lose their...
When Graf criticizes Dr. Yei for separating Tony and Claire by transferring Tony and giving Claire a "reproductive order" with someone else, she responds: "I didn't invent the Cay Project, and if I were running it, I'd do it differently, but I have to play the hand I'm dealt, Mr. Graf" (p. 72). This implies she doesn't like the policies, but she can't do anything about it. Likewise, at the hearing Apmad claims, "Until Dr. Cay's death brought his department under mine, I had no idea that his 'R & D -- Biologicals' was concealing such enormously invasive manipulations of human genes" (p. 111), and so he passes the buck to a dead man.
During the hearing the reader learns that GalacTec is threatened by a hostile takeover and may lose millions on the Cay project. The fate of the Quaddies, even their possible deaths ("euthanasia"), is discussed entirely in financial terms. When moral problems are brought up, the discussion immediately turns to the legality issues. Just like General Motors…
Scientology Introducing a New Religious Movement, one must be as objective as possible. I, for instance, could choose to tell you that L. Ron Hubbard founded the Church of Scientology in 1954 and marketed it as an organization for social reform that essentially became the global force it is today, with (young, professional, stylish, racially-diverse) adherents providing positive sound bites on Scientology.org that promote (in naturalistic, community-oriented settings) the religion as
Internet The Great Worm -- an power point presentation script an all black slide with the giant movie logo "REVENGE OF THE NERDS" (available from http://www.supermanfred.it/nerds.htm -- the image will need to be slightly edited to remove "the website" from it) in the center. Play a section of "She Blinded me with Science!" Script: [said ominously] "It was the eighties. Anything could have happened. The internet was still a text-based baby and there
" Gane 107) This potentially creates a stifling and an inability of women, the holders of virtue (especially given our imagery the virgin princess) to laugh at a torn dress and an exposed areola the way some European cultures do. Fashion has become modern sexuality in the sense that it has the function of establishing these qualities or attributes. As everything gets drawn into this system gradually all culture is affected by
Christian Biotechnology: Not a Contradiction in Terms Presented with the idea of "Bioethics" most people in the scientific community today immediately get the impression of repressive, Luddite forces wishing to stifle research and advancement in the name of morality and God. Unfortunately, this stereotype too often holds true. If one looks over the many independent sites on the Internet regarding bioethics, reads popular magazines and publications, or browses library shelves for
In a descriptive syllabus for a graduate seminar in AI professor Donald gives insight into the form that AI research is taking and the bottom line is that internal brain functioning, switching, neurotransmissions, and patterns are being dissected to give the student a greater sense of the workings of the human mind so these same students may go forwards and attempt to recreate, decidedly small scale (likely single or
The mother is unable to adapt to the transitional period and unable to give up her values and traditions. In this new society, she feels out of place and finds some relief in preserving her old habits. Instead, her children find themselves forced to adapt to the social change and their behavior is deviant from the morals they were raised in. As a result, Naoji makes some mistakes in his