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May 17, 2012

Is pharmacology making us more moral?

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A psychiatrist in Britain argues that we are already using drugs as a means of improving our future conduct: a subtle form of moral assistance.
He writes that patients use drugs for prosocial reasons – hoping to do the right thing.
I can’t help but wonder how nightmarishly tepid a world would be of homologous morality – of a world that always equates the good to that which is prosocial. What is the role of art? What do we do with all those people who reside in those vague borderlands between genius and madness?

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