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A comment on Ask HN: Should a scientist be highly moral and give an oath to serve for good.

Re:Ask HN: Should a scientist be highly moral and give an oa... by gus_massa on Friday August 23, 2019 @07:52AM (#20776529)
Dos the oath include not creating nuclear weapons?

Can a farmer work after s/he made the oath?

Can a doctor test drugs in mouses? (Why you excluded bacteria from your list?)

Is the oath pro-life or pro-choice? (Notice that there are more than two option in that debate.)

Who is going to make the rules about what is fine? You? The Pope? The Tweeter mob?

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Re:Ask HN: Should a scientist be highly moral and give an oa... by isu on Friday August 23, 2019 @12:34PM (#20779285)
> Can a doctor test drugs in mouses? (Why you excluded bacteria from your list?)

Bacteria is included into a "living being", but anyway. I definitely do not pretend to present a well thought oath in the comment yet. But seems The Hippocratic Oath is a good precedent. Probably, it's better to compose such ethical principles for each activity, because there are different fallacies and temptations for different professions. And there is a separate set of temptations for a common human. We teach and study natural sciences, but we don't teach ethics and philosophy in popular nowadays STEM curricula.

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