Funny people, these politicians, they did not want morality to condemn their chicanery, so they created the great State/Religion divide. Now they want to get rid of logic.
The honoured and respected teacher used to say: “Do not make the highest purpose of your life to learn the true number of legs of a centipede, train your minds to observe life, to see correlations, and to find solutions to seemingly unsovable problems. Our purpose is not to make you experts in nanotechnology; it is to create the engineering mind. With this mind you will use logic, empirical experience and the gathering of apparently unrelated parameters to create something new, something valuable, some answer to our problems.”
In short, he wanted us to believe that a scientist is above all a problem solver, a troubleshooter. The weapons, he said, are common sense, logic and observation. The enemy: all types of suffering, everything that your fellow man considers as a problem.
“Don’t be petty”, he said, “don’t consider yourself the benefactor of humanity just because you found the correct formula of a cough syrop.” Instead, he enjoined us to dabble in everything. “Nothing is taboo for an inquisitive mind, look at Edison!”
So yes, in the abscence of any moral overseeing body, there must be a logical one. Politicians, you will not get rid of us so easily, WE WILL NOT GO AWAY. Otherwise, we might as well all sit back and marvel at the kafkaesque world, a world governed by politics alone.
P.S. : Some people have even conceded us the right to intervene in politics, did they not call this turf “Political Science”