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http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/are-we-ready-for-a-morality-pill/?smid=pl-share

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/are-we-ready-for-a-morality-pill/?pagewanted=print

Are We Ready for a ‘Morality Pill’?

By PETER SINGER and AGATA SAGAN

• 23 of 30 rats freed their trapped companions
• situational factors can make a huge difference, and perhaps moral beliefs do as well
• biochemical differences between the brains of those who help others and the brains of those who do not
• Anthony Burgess wrote “A Clockwork Orange,” a futuristic novel about a vicious gang leader who undergoes a procedure that makes him incapable of violence

Drugs (Pharmaceuticals), Ethics, morality, Philosophy

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230 Comments

• peregrine
• Salt Lake City, Utah

It's somewhat ironic that a morality pill is not likely to be developed any time soon unless someone powerful stands to make a huge profit from it. 

• greppers
• upstate NY

So 7 rats were conservative Republicans?

• Ellen Fishman, elementary public school teacher
• chicago

Situational conditions and learned habits are so strong.