I think you got your science mixed up with social trends, war, fashion, market forces and other things that I don't think should be confused with science.
Science wants to find the answers to questions. Why? Because we don't have the answers yet. That's it. Science doesn't want to sell lipstick or make weaponry. Those are goals pushed by market forces or possibly governments. If you have a problem with them, I'd say you have a problem with your society, not science.
As I wrote earlier at some point, the scientific community didn't produce the atom bomb. The manhattan project was led and pushed by the US Army. Even if you remove the scientific community, military forces like the US armed forces are still gonna employ scientists to make more devastating weapons.
Sometimes, scientific knowledge can be used for the wrong ends and so I agree morale philosophy and, I would say, particularly basics on society is so important to teach people today. Every democratic nation is ultimately governed by it's people. If they don't even know what a society is, why we have it and how it works, how are they supposed to know how to shape it?
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