Essay & outline: Dangerous world, Science & ethics

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1) Do you agree that we live in a dangerous world?
Some people have asked me to predict what will come out for the exams. I really can't tell since ANYTHING can come out. But by logical deduction (i.e. your paper was set around 2004, post 911 and SARS period), so I thought this question is a good revision for some of the problems in the world around that time. I'm not spotting questions, just want to use this question to remind you of some important ideas
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Anyway, it may be safer to just revise some issues about terrorism (e.g. measures to deal with terrorism, see your mid-yr exam and common test 3) and maybe how we deal with the spread of diseases such as SARS and Bird Flu. You should also recall that I mentioned that issues about religion and its related concerns (e.g. fanaticism, consumerism) were also hot topics around that time so may be worth revising.

2) ‘It is not the business of science to deal with ethical issues.’ Discuss.
A number of people tried this rather difficult question and I thought this one was pretty well-written with interesting e.g.
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