Governments should place few, if any, restrictions on scientific research and development.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.


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Scientific research and development is the path that brought humanity at this point. It's the path to the future too. Should governments restrict scientific advancement, humanity and our planet will probably endure difficult times ahead of them. We need science to improve our everyday life, cure diseases, protect the natural environment, explore the infinite capabilities of man and the universe and generally offer every person on earth a decent life.
Para 1: R&D improves our way of life, solves each generations problems and makes us meet our needs more easily and effectively. Technology... and computing. Technology at home. Sanitation. Healthy food. More effectively and productive agriculture and production of goods and services. Technology that literally drives us to other planets and galaxies in exploration of the unknown...
Para 2: R&D is number one ally if we want to cure disease or at least ease pain in incurable diseases... R&D helps people with disabilities live a normal and even productive life to the extent this is possible. New medications, new cures, new ways of thinking in medicine and psychology combined.
Para 3: R&D helps us understand nature and develop ways to protect it and live in harmony with it. High-end technology for forest surveillance, wildlife conservation, biodiversity protection. New information makes us more active in living a sustainable life, makes us wary of deceitful people and companies and fills us with loving and protective feelings for every animal and plant on earth; it gives us tools.
Para 4: Nevertheless, there are always issues of dangerous scientific discoveries and we should be wary. Governments could come in, at this point, and place as few restrictions as possible, having the public benefit in mind. These restrictions would most likely include legal frameworks that protect citizens and consumers; thresholds for funding sources and for the use of certain dangerous or disputable material...
Summing up, although it would be judicious on behalf of national and international authorities to impose some regulations on specific kinds and volumes of research work, science cannot and should not be halted from improving the world. Unless for reasons of public health or security, scientific research needs to remain one of the most important sectors of activity worldwide; because it offers more than we realize.