Owing to the state-of-art science and burgeoning development, the quality of life becomes significantly more superior than before. However, it becomes a controversial topic debated by people all over the world that whether the governments should restrict the scientific research and development. From my perspective, the development and science research need a guideline. In that sense, I believe that it is necessary for the government to place modest restrictions on science and development. The factors which support my position are as follow.
First of all, part of the responsibility of government is to keep the peace and balance of the society, and to promote economic growth. Regarding those factors as guidelines, the governments are capable of instructing the direction of the scientific research and development. With the guidance of government, the achievements of the research could be used for improving the over all development of a country. One apt example is that, the nuclear research gave life to the nuclear weapons, which earned victory for justice and promoted peace for the entire world. With government's guidance, this tremendous power accomplished its transformation, now it serve as a substitute energy for the fossil fuel. If the governments place modest restrictions and give guidance to the scientific research and development, the achievements from science will be capable of making contribution to the entire society.
Secondly, while painstakingly surpassing the previous records, scientific research is also discovering the bottom line of human ethics and the edge of destruction. If government support any scientific research and development without any restriction, indeed many of the fields will be boosted into a higher level and thus produce many favorable achievements. However, without restriction from the governments, some achievements may turn out to be deleterious. The genetic research, for example, has the potential to conquer some cumbersome disease, however, it has the potential to challenge the ethics and provoke social turmoil by cloning human being. Furthermore, the research and development on nuclear power may result in evolution of nuclear weapons, threatening the peace of the world, if the government had not put and restriction on those research and development. Thus the necessity of government restriction becomes self-evident.
Admittedly, too much restrictions and confines from government will undermine the scientific renovation and discovery, and thus impede the overall development of society. It is not difficult to imagine, what would a nation become, if its government rigidly confine any development and research of science. When the process of scientific development stops, the economy will hardly sustain it self, that nation will become vulnerable to the fierce international situation. Nevertheless, there is still benefit, that the nation's ethics will never be challenged by scientific achievements.
With the guidance and modest restriction of the government, the society will be benefited. And the consequence will be unfavorable if no restrictions had been placed upon scientific research and development. Thus, we can draw the conclusion that regulation and temperate restriction from the government is necessary.