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Immunity To Remorse In A Pill
Erik Baard writes "Several lines of research to prevent the formation of post traumatic stress disorder might also have the effect of stunting the development of healthy feelings of remorse over one's wrongdoings. With such therapies available one day, will soldiers or police officers be less hesitant to use lethal force in questionable situations? Will rapists and murderers qualify for treatment? This Village Voice article explores the ethical implications without pointing to any single answer."
The worst of the predators feel no remorse; they're sociopaths.
without knowing the specific action of this new chemical I would say no, it could not provoke an opposite effect. These types of drugs usually work on HT receptors in the brain, suppressing them, thus allowing open receptors that have been identified with certain emotional pyschological responses a better chance to bind. You're really not releasing any chemicals in the classical sense that one might think of. Pyschological pharmaceutical drugs are little more than specific receptor binders, usually.