[FRIAM] Another COVID remedy?

Steve Smith sasmyth at swcp.com
Sat Aug 15 10:49:52 EDT 2020


I know... I was too lazy to look up the tongue-in-cheek emoticon :^) .  
I think it is more likely that we will all be willing to fly on
pilotless airliners (or amongst driverless semis) than to submit to
morality-altering substances.   If I was really evil, I would suggest
that big Pharma was in cahoots with the Moral Majority to slip this into
the alternatives to Vaxxines that half the population is going to refuse
on "moral" grounds.
> Oh boy, that's sure to get some flames going! Even reasonably social
> beings like myself cringe at the thought of "people could take a
> substance to boost their cooperative, pro-social behavior." Social
> engineering writ large. Maybe it would work in China or other
> countries that have a very high opinion of working for the common
> good, but I think we're many generations away from such an idea
> working in the USA.
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 5:09 PM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com
> <mailto:sasmyth at swcp.com>> wrote:
>
>     https://theconversation.com/morality-pills-may-be-the-uss-best-shot-at-ending-the-coronavirus-pandemic-according-to-one-ethicist-142601
>
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