"I for one welcome our new psychotropic drug dispensing overlords."
Posted on 08/17/2020 8:10:26 AM PDT by EBH
My research in bioethics focuses on questions like how to induce those who are noncooperative to get on board with doing what’s best for the public good. To me, it seems the problem of coronavirus defectors could be solved by moral enhancement: like receiving a vaccine to beef up your immune system, people could take a substance to boost their cooperative, pro-social behavior. Could a psychoactive pill be the solution to the pandemic?
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But I believe society may be better off, both in the short term as well as the long, by boosting not the body’s ability to fight off disease but the brain’s ability to cooperate with others. What if researchers developed and delivered a moral enhancer rather than an immunity enhancer?
Moral enhancement is the use of substances to make you more moral. The psychoactive substances act on your ability to reason about what the right thing to do is, or your ability to be empathetic or altruistic or cooperative.
For example, oxytocin, the chemical that, among other things, can induce labor or increase the bond between mother and child, may cause a person to be more empathetic and altruistic, more giving and generous. The same goes for psilocybin, the active component of “magic mushrooms.” These substances have been shown to lower aggressive behavior in those with antisocial personality disorder and to improve the ability of sociopaths to recognize emotion in others.
These substances interact directly with the psychological underpinnings of moral behavior; others that make you more rational could also help. Then, perhaps, the people who choose to go maskless or flout social distancing guidelines would better understand that everyone, including them, is better off when they contribute, and rationalize that the best thing to do is cooperate.
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> The other possibility is that you have your Oxy’s mixed up. <
Yep! But being a modern man, I take no responsibility for my actions. Please see my post #39.
“We”...thinking sideways again here...
Hey, WHO started this current me$$ anyway?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g
Or did “We”?
ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY.
Why list Lynne Anderson? Parker Crutchfield is the attributed author.
And what he suggests putatively has obviously already been done across the board. Just look at the estrogens in the environment and falling T levels.
Of course, this clown’s solution to the “pandemic” is more money for his creepy research in “ethics”.
Has anyone else seen the movie Firefly? How’d that work out for them??? Just saying . . .
That’s oxycontin, but these people need to take a look at all their complaints about injecting pedophiles with estrogen from the past...
What is ality, and why do we need more of it?
(When I used to teach Intro to Ethics F2F that was the first line of my first lecture. Recently I met by chance a student from 25 years ago, and this was the first thing she said to me, so it must have stuck.)
“Brave New World” is a dystopia, not a utopia.
And they’ve already been researching giving people oxytocin, AKA the love hormone, to people to alter their reactions. Give it to them, and it makes you think more positively of the out-group.
This is how liberal politics has infected the social sciences. Moral = liberal, sane = liberal. And everyone else is a crazy, evil hater.
Actually, the ‘Firefly’ movie was called ‘Serenity’.
For those that didn’t watch it, the plot was that the ruling Inner Planets (the Confederation) experimented on a colony world named Miranda. They were testing a drug...unbeknownst to the population... that would make the people compliant to whatever the government told them, while allowing them to live ‘blissful’ lives. What it ended up doing was cause 80% of the population to just kind of ‘shut down’. They just ‘gave up’ right where they were and died. The other 20% had their brains triggered to make them ferocious, feral, and predisposed to raping, murdering, and even cannibalism. These ended up becoming what was known in the story as the ‘Reavers’.
Experimenting with mass distribution of mind-altering drugs to control the masses is never a good thing, and will never turn out the way you intended.
But the DemonRats do not care. As long as THEY end up in power...’Anything goes’.
Now—such is progress—the old men work, the old men copulate, the old men have no time, no leisure from pleasure, not a moment to sit down and think—or if ever by some unlucky chance such a crevice of time should yawn in the solid substance of their distractions, there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon; returning whence they find themselves on the other side of the crevice, safe on the solid ground of daily labour and distraction, scampering from feely to feely, from girl to pneumatic girl, from Electromagnetic Golf course to…
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Uh, not you.
I’ve seen the future, I can’t afford it
Tell me the truth sir, someone just bought it
Say mr. whispers! Here come the click of dice
Roulette and blackjacks - gonna build us a paradise
Larger than life and twice as ugly
If we have to live there, you’ll have to drug me
Politicians lecture us on Truth,
Lawyers lecture us on ethics,
Homosexuals lecture us on morals,
Transsexuals lecture us on human biology,
Baby killers lecture us on the death penalty,
Tyrants lecture us on human rights,
Satanists lecture us on religion, and
Socialists lecture us on economics!
LOL!
Brought to you by the depopulation freaks and baby-killing nuts.
Morality pills for full ‘compliance’.
MY BODY...MY CHOICE. I will not comply.
"I for one welcome our new psychotropic drug dispensing overlords."
Yep!
And this “social credit score” hype or behavior modification is nothing more than a precursor to the dreaded Mark of the Beast of Revelation.
Then uhh, I won't be taking anything.
Not voluntarily
100% right!!! The series was Firefly, and sadly only one season -— the movie was Serenity.
Lazamataz, one z on the end.
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