Since it was very much inspired by Mr. Vonnegut, we’d like to (again) present this piece to you. He will be missed. The SCQ would also like to ask, “what are you afraid of?” Comments can be left here. – – – A few months before he died, a Nobel Prize winner wandered into my office, sat down, and proceeded to talk about science and ethics. He did this for about an hour. In fact, most of it boiled down to something like this. “Science is in a very interesting predicament these days. It has accelerated so much, in so…