Re: Violence...

Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 07:17:14 -0700 (PDT)

From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>

>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.

Actually I think this is probably true, I tried searching some yesterday to determine what exactly they were using.

The Japanese routinely gave Methamphetamine (shabu) to troops during WWII, especially kakikazi, to hype them up. We used amphetamines for the same reason, recently troops in Somalia had to deal with locals wacked out on Ghat.

Common, everyday stuff.....

Brian

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