The nonsense of using science to make people more moral

Sometimes, people do terrible things because they have a tragic misunderstanding of what it means to be good. Sometimes we do regrettable things because we aren't strong enough to be as good as we would like. Fortunately, emerging neuroscience suggests that we will soon be able to both fix those with broken moral compasses and tune up our own internal morality.

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Social neuroscience is revealing that much of our capacity for virtue is set at birth. Qualities like self-control, empathy, deliberation and fairness are substantially genetically and neurologically determined. For instance, substance abuse, sexual promiscuity, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and the likelihood of ending up in the criminal justice system have all been linked to the genes that regulate the neurochemical dopamine. Self-control has been linked to having a larger, more active and better-connected prefrontal cortex, which is able to control the more impulsive parts of the brain.

Today, the medications used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder boost dopamine signalling and help give prefrontal executive control the upper hand. These stimulants are just one of the "moral enhancers" that are already in common use. More are on the way.

http://www.dailylife.com.au/health-and-fitness/dl-wellbeing/can-science-be-used-to-make-people-more-moral-20160525-gp374h.html

The nonsense of using science to make people more moral

The nonsense of using science to make people more moral

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