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Vaccine to Prevent Killing Human Beings?
jawahar asks: "I wanted to ask Slashdot whether it is possible and desirable to develop a vaccine which, when consumed, prevents a human being from intentionally killing a fellow human being. How much funding is required to develop and distribute such a vaccine?"
April fools question obviously.
How about nanotech that prevents stupid "ask slashdot" questions or dupe posts?
*points at subject*
*waves angrily*
*stamps feet*
*sighs*
*sits down*
*sips martini*
*calms down*
"Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend." - Emil Michel Cioran
Ecstasy does. It's decently cheap, too. Just pump up the whole nation on it, and we won't have any problems with violence. We will have problems with STDs, though.
--TheOrangeSquid Is it any wonder things seem so awry? We swim in a sea of confusion and don't have to think to survive
It's already available. It's called cyanide. Upon consuming a sufficient dose, the subject will never intentionally kill anyone.
i second this! one simple pill that makes you love anybody, everybody, and ultimately everything (especially fuzzy things, just cuz they're so fuzzy)
---- The first point-and-click interface was a Smith & Wesson
what if the supply runs out , we would have an entire nation on a comedown bringing a new meaning to the phrase "the Great depresion"
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
I know this is April Fool, but let's explore the question anyway. Some people have asked this question in other forms before, and meant it seriously. There's usually a political motive behind it, such as "if we could we could stop war", or "if we could then we could immediately enact this utopian society I came up with while drinking absinthe."
The question is too broad (or the asker's mind too narrow). Is it allowable to kill another human being in the course of self-defense? Or use both your brain cells to figure this one out: what if you could save the lives of two people by killing their imminent assassin?
Write these questions large. If the purpose is to stop war, what do you do when an unvaccinated army comes invading? Do you take up arms in defense to save your fellow vaccinated citizens? Or do you comfort yourself on your deathbed knowing that although you could have prevented ten million deaths, at least the Halkan Council will remember you kindly?
Here's another one. What if Judge Greer had been vaccinated? Would he have been able to order the removal of Terry's feeding tube? Or what about abortion? Really think about that last one. If you don't believe that the fetus is a human being, then the vaccine won't prevent you from performing an abortion. But if you do believe that the fetus is a human being, it will. Follow that logic and you'll soon discover that the vaccine will not prevent any killing that the killer can mentally justify. What if the only thing preventing the killing is the killer's *belief* that he is not killing?
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
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