On Dec 17, 11:55am, Anders Sandberg wrote:
> Perhaps. Maybe worth looking at impulse control disorders like
> kleptomania and Tourette's syndrome. Then of course, being unable of
> lying would likely be a social handicap and limit the range of human
> behavior. Ethics alert.
And limiting the range of human behavior is necessarily a bad thing? Civilization has consisted in large part of expanding the range in some direction while limiting it in others -- and the limits are often what make the expansion possible. First World civil servants have limited behavior compared with their typical Third World counterparts, where corruption is endemic; this is not a bad thing. Impulse killing seems more restrained these days too, despite deadlier weaponry.
Disabling selected individuals, yes, that would be bad.
-xx- Damien X-)