This-essay is a8408221.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %EVALUATION OF TECHNIQUES AND IDEALS 840822 Engineers and technicians are accustomed to evaluating techniques in terms of previously accepted ideals, goals, and purposes. By training they are oriented to asking only technical questions: which technique and which instrument will get the job done most efficiently and quickly? Which technique and which instrument will minimize the cost of getting the job done? They have not been trained nor given the responsibility for deciding whether or not the job should be done. Much less have they been trained or been given the responsibility for assessing ideals, goals and purposes in terms of the extent to which they strengthen or undermine personal and communal integrity. The latter questions are all but incomprehensible to the thoroughly trained and indoctrinated engineer and technician. Exclusive experts in techniques and instrumentation are by training and indoctrination completely disqualified to serve as experts in the evaluation of ideals and goals in terms of transcendent criteria related to questions of ultimate integrity. They rarely question ideals, goals or purposes. Each ideal, goal and purpose is to them a means of celebrating the values of their techniques and instruments. By specialized training they have learned to make means into ends which are to be served through the means of distorting other people's ideals, goals and purposes. Technocrats serve their techniques and instruments by modifying other people's ideals, goals and purposes to make worshipped techniques and instruments more essential and powerful. The roles of means and ends are reversed---in order to serve the means without respect for the ways in which the means as used undermine personal and communal integrity. The above is illustrated by arms races seeking to achieve security in spite of the fact that all defensive techniques reduce people's freedom to be vulnerable---the freedom which is the essence of security. Medical technocrats have too often celebrated their technologies rather than life, in how they have treated terminally ill patients. Lawyers have celebrated legal complexities and high incomes---rather than justice which promotes integrity. Graduate schools have worshiped research--- rather than prepared professors for educational responsibilities. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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