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Choose. NOW. RIGHT NOW: "Moral Enhancement" drugs now being pushed to "increase compliance" with the KoronaKontrols

 
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Choose. NOW. RIGHT NOW: "Moral Enhancement" drugs now being pushed to "increase compliance" with the KoronaKontrols
If we don't start putting up a fight now, it's going to be too late sooner than you think. Here's what "they" have planned next since there was ZERO resistance to the mandatory masks:

"Democratically enacted enforceable rules – mandating things like mask wearing and social distancing – might work, if defectors could be coerced into adhering to them. But not all states have opted to pass them or to enforce the rules that are in place.

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?

It’s a far-out proposal that’s bound to be controversial, but one I believe is worth at least considering, given the importance of social cooperation in the struggle to get COVID-19 under control.

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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yeah sorry
medicos get judged first

sets a PRECEDENT

of OATHS
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Re: Choose. NOW. RIGHT NOW: "Moral Enhancement" drugs now being pushed to "increase compliance" with the KoronaKontrols
Mask wearing is a religious ceremony that I am loathe to partake in.

It isn't about health, but about compliance and acquiescence.

I for one will not give up my autonomy to placate your fear.
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Mask wearing is a religious ceremony that I am loathe to partake in.

It isn't about health, but about compliance and acquiescence.

I for one will not give up my autonomy to placate your fear.
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I fully agree.
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OP is looney tunes.
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"First do no harm" are nothing but words on a page these days.
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Is called legalize weed world wide to calm the people the fuck down.
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Whoa, it's worse than I thought. From the same author:

Compulsory moral bioenhancement should be covert

Authors
Parker Crutchfield

Publication date
2019/1

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Some theorists argue that moral bioenhancement ought to be compulsory. I take this argument one step further, arguing that if moral bioenhancement ought to be compulsory, then its administration ought to be covert rather than overt. This is to say that it is morally preferable for compulsory moral bioenhancement to be administered without the recipients knowing that they are receiving the enhancement.

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Allowing people like this to even exist in the free world is DANGEROUS!
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Part of Pre Prep life That's why we always live in the country. My well My water 👍
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Whoa, it's worse than I thought. From the same author:

Compulsory moral bioenhancement should be covert

Authors
Parker Crutchfield

Publication date
2019/1

Description
Some theorists argue that moral bioenhancement ought to be compulsory. I take this argument one step further, arguing that if moral bioenhancement ought to be compulsory, then its administration ought to be covert rather than overt. This is to say that it is morally preferable for compulsory moral bioenhancement to be administered without the recipients knowing that they are receiving the enhancement.

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Allowing people like this to even exist in the free world is DANGEROUS!
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That link seems glitchy. Try this one.

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Basically, the evil douchebag wants to secretly and sneakily drug everyone without them knowing. In what universe is that even remotely a good idea??
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