Re: violence...

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• "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> wrote:
  > Damien Broderick wrote:
  > >
  > > <...take `anjing gila' they want to kill people
  > everywhere. They
  > > do not even recognise their own father or mother.
  > They just kill. That's
  > > why they call it `crazy dog' pill." >
  > >
  > > (Age, Thurs 16 Sept, p. 13)
  > >
  > > Could be a rural myth, of course, but sounds like
  > something tuned to the
  > > amygdala.
  >
  > I think it is a rural myth. That kind of battle
  > madness is built into
  > the human neurology. A pill is entirely
  > unnecessary. Just something
  > made up by people who rather wouldn't believe in the
  > dark side of the
  > mind, I suppose.
  

There can be plenty of things in the human mind that can be enhanced by chemical or social means.

A neurological factor does not disprove the drugs hypothesis.

It is something which should be checked into, with a view to counteracting it.

Michael

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