Business, science, politics, and religion are all civilizational tools. A tool is neither good nor bad. It only 'is'. They're all a means to an end. Nothing more. Slavery was 'just business'. Dr Mengele was a scientist. One who employs a tool, and considers not the ends to which it is being employed is an idiot (at best), and toils towards another's goals whether he intends to or not. Business and science have every bit as much power to destroy, and no more power to build than politics and religion.
Business, science, politics, and religion are all civilizational tools.
Death and destruction are anticivilization. Political and religious leaders have created and perpetuated this anticivilization. They cannot cure human death. Science and business can. That is the opposite of anticivilization. It is civilization.
In just the last hundred years science and business have greatly extended human longevity. If not for politics and religion longevity would have increased further. I've never seen DuPont or similar companies wielding death and destruction. History shows death and destruction is the realm of politics and religion.
Natural death is a function of nature. Conscious man is the only entity that can interdict nature and manipulate it to benefit himself, family and humanity. Man has come a long way from inventing the wheel and starting fires. And those two he accomplished before he was conscious -- when he was bicameral man.
Slavery was 'just business'.
It's wrong and it has long ago been eliminated, for the most part anyhow.
Dr Mengele was a scientist.
Employed by politics of the day in Germany.
One who employs a tool, and considers not the ends to which it is being employed is an idiot (at best), and toils towards another's goals whether he intends to or not.
Politics and religion employee tools to cause death and destruction. They sometimes employee scientists to create weapons of mass destruction. Yet there is no XYZ scientific-company that bombs people or airline that flies planes into buildings.
Business and science have every bit as much power to destroy, and no more power to build than politics and religion.
Business and science have the power to destroy but only when their products of science and business are enlisted by government and religion do their tools destroy. Death and destruction at the behest of politics and religion.
A war of two worlds. Value destroyers versus value producers.