Re: The war on faith.
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So if a legion of computer scientists went on a rampage killing spree, and claim that their killings were "in the name of the God of computer science", does that make computer science "morally wrong"?
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If groups of computer scientists independently tended to go on killing rampages, I would identify a correlation between a focus on computer science and violence. Then I would examine the body of computer science as well as the histories of the violent individuals to test my initial hypothesis: that computer science causes violence. If neither case served to falsify my hypothesis, then I would believe computer science causes violence.
The "morality" question would involve further study. What part of computer science causes violence? What are the benefits of computer science (as compared to the costs)? What are the other causes of the violent behavior?
In the end I'd probably put some blame on computer science itself, and some on the individual computer scientists, and possibly some on other variables, based on the results of my research.
Examples of my conclusions are religion (70% the fault of religion, 20% the fault of religious leaders, 10% the fault of practitioners) and violent video games (10% the fault of the games, 60% the fault of the players, 30% the fault of the parents).
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