Technology and Morals in Isbens An Enemy of the People and Freuds Civilization and its Discontent :: Enemy People Civilization Discontents

Technology and Morals in Isbens An Enemy of the People and Freuds Civilization and its DiscontentsAs technology increases do the morals of parliamentary law degrade? This is a very scientific question to ask ab break quite an emotional subject. A scientist would ask for a set of data correlating points of change magnitude technology with corresponding points of moral standards. The brutal truth is that you fuelt know. No one can be certain about the moral standards of a people at a certain time in the past, let alone the present. And how do you face a period of time when the technological standards and ideas actually fell in relationship from the previous time period. Did their moral standards improve? I doubt it. Arguing for the code of chivalry and the honor of knights falls apart when you look forth from fairy tales, that and the fact that most of the population of Europe was peasants, anyways. But seriously, a person really cant know. The only problem technology bri ngs forth is that people can find a more efficient way of getting what they want. Because after all, isnt that all humans nature is? And morals are defined by human nature. So if one person wants to kill people, technology will aid that person in doing so. Of course theres a monetary price to that technology, so youll be able to kill people only as efficiently as your budget constraint allows. However, its still non that hard or expensive to vitiate a gun and shoot someone. What Im leading up to is that technology does not affect the morals of a people. It affects how efficiently they can carry out their goals, not their goals directly. Of course you can say that the possibility of doing something creates a desire to do it, but is someone going to commit genocide if they dont want to kill a single person in the first place? Technology does not affect peoples morals directly it allows people to follow their nature (to carry out their goals) more efficiently. Henry Ibsen g ives the best argument for this case. In his play, An Enemy of the People, the mayor of the town, Peter Stockmann, only wants what is best for the town and his public image. His brother, Dr.