MORALITY DRUGS

 

 

Associate Professor of Medical Ethics, Humanities and Law, Parker Crutchfield, has suggested a controversial approach to battling the pandemic — namely a “morality pill.”

 

·       Specifically, he suggests that widespread administration of psychoactive drugs could provide “moral enhancement” that would make people more likely to adhere to social norms such as wearing masks and adhering to social distancing guidelines.

 

Crutchfield and other professionals point out that:

 

·       well-known chemicals, such as oxytocin and psilocybin (the active ingredient in “magic mushrooms”) can lower aggression and increase empathy towards others, and thus potentially “boost” our “cooperative, pro-social behavior.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2020/08/30/could-a-morality-pill-help-stop-the-covid-19-pandemic/?sh=77ccb3d25b84

 

While I agree that morality is central to the health of any of us and to society, I have many reservations about secretly drugging-up our nation, as some have suggested. It starts with addiction and other possible side-effects. And what if this palliative must be terminated, will we become more immoral that we had been before!

 

If we are concerned about morality. Shouldn’t we also be concerned about slipping our citizens a continual “mickey.” I think so!

 

Besides, do we really need another imposed top-down mandate? When will it stop? When all behaviors deemed “negative” or “toxic” by our leaders are controlled or eliminated?

 

There are already proven methods to improve morality. The offer of a “new life” through the Redeemer Jesus Christ, who has radically changed lives and societies without side-effects or government mandates! He has radically changed this previously dysfunctional human being, and millions of others have proclaimed the same! However, this Solution is the one which is increasingly banned, even persecuted.