Was reading one of my lecture notes today and got reminded of a pretty interesting point. How the mere introduction of a new product(in hopes of alleviating some social issues) would end up leading to greater and more serious problems if it wasn't thoroughly thought through.
The lecturer was like saying about how invention of milk powder is a rather good thing for because it is so convenient blah blah blah, yet it is kind of immoral to actually try to promote the sale of milk powder in developing countries.. because in developing countries, they hardly have any clean water to begin with.. so mixing milk powder with dirty water would end up harming the babies instead!
Ahh I cant think anymore..
Ok so basically its something like it would be immoral to promote milk powder in developing countries whereas it is perfectly find in developed countries. So in different cultures/societies context.. the moral issues are different. therefore.... we need to balance moral absolutism and moral relativism. haha ok,
i just wanted to blog something about work so i feel less guilty about not doing much today. boo~ and i thought the milk powder example was really interesting~
(anyway nice song =))
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