April 09, 2011

Morality in Pill Form.

Adding to the warehouse of apocalypse-enabling technologies comes a new level of proposed drug manipulation of moral behavior.
"Science has ignored the question of moral improvement so far, but it is now becoming a big debate," he said. "There is already a growing body of research you can describe in these terms. Studies show that certain drugs affect the ways people respond to moral dilemmas by increasing their sense of empathy, group affiliation and by reducing aggression."
I thought that was called estrogen.

Other scientists raise the obvious  point - the opposite effect would also be true. 

2 Comments:

Blogger VMM said...

Estrogen, sure, or castration. Or just don't have any men. It's kind of hard to argue with that position.

April 9, 2011 at 1:09 PM  
Blogger The Other Front said...

This should be effective - once we all agree on what moral behavior is...

April 9, 2011 at 4:33 PM  

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