Making a difference in the society
where you live is a valid principle only if that society will use your
contribution for good; otherwise, a contribution that was meant to have only
upstanding intentions and the scope to help the progress of mankind serves,
instead as an instrument to increase the level of social injustice and evil in
the present and future of the world. An example? The Theory of Relativity and
the well-known formula correlating mass and energy (E=mc2),
undoubtedly one of the greatest contributions in human history, was used
(because of such and such historical situations) to contrive the most
destructive weapon human history has ever seen! More recently the herbicide
called “Agent Orange”, containing among others dioxin, was used as a “herbicidal
warfare program” in a defoliation operation over South Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia,
and parts of North Vietnam that also affected US soldiers present in those
areas. What is less known is that the idea for Agent Orange came out of research
by a scientist who studied a mechanism to improve growth in plants! Once again,
something intended for good was reverse engineered for evil. Be mindful when
you contribute to a society ready to turn every end into malicious means.
(Sergio
Caldarella, Means to an end, in
RantRave, April 15, 2014)
