Imagine a pill or therapy capable of rewiring your neural circuitry so as to make you more empathetic: one that decreases aggression, and causes your capacity for moral reasoning and tendency to forgive to go through the roof. Wouldn’t the world be a better place if we were all encouraged to have it? In fact, if human happiness lay on the other side of a tablet, why not embrace utopia and prescribe it by force? Such a scenario may not be as far away as you suppose. Technologies to read and manipulate thought patterns are growing. Elon Musk’s Neuralink project is attempting to establish direct communication between our brains and computers, while Kernel, a company in California, has invested $100 million to develop intelligence-boosting brain implants. depression, and certain chemicals can help us make more . But even if weeding out aberrant thought patterns and enforcing social conformity through technological or pharmacological means could be made to work in practice, would it be the right thing t

True. But I find this REALLY messed up. I mean, I get that they want violence to be eliminated, but if we are without our emotions, we wouldn't be able to be happy about no violence. And if there is no excitement for the loss of violence, does it really matter that it's gone?