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2nd October 2008, 10:42pm
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#1 | | bordeebarbushbarbon Editor
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| If a pill could be given...
...that would make someone absolutely happy with slavery and happy with a life of servitude, more happy even than their master would be through having a servant, would it be okay to feed someone such a pill and make them a slave?
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2nd October 2008, 10:43pm
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#2 | | Athiest Otter
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| Re: If a pill could be given...
It'd make being employed in a call centre tollerable thing, that's for sure.
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2nd October 2008, 11:07pm
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#3 | | Pos-Reprehensible
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| Re: If a pill could be given...
Why should happiness be touted as the 'be all and end all' of humanity's ultimate goals? Fuck 'em, I say. There's something extremely disconcerting about goofy smirking dopes who are irrepresible happy and intensely satisfied with everything.
Urgh, urgh, urgh. Horrid.
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2nd October 2008, 11:08pm
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#4 | | Wide as the Clyde
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| Re: If a pill could be given...
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Originally Posted by LesMTS  ...that would make someone absolutely happy with slavery and happy with a life of servitude, more happy even than their master would be through having a servant, would it be okay to feed someone such a pill and make them a slave? | No. | |
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2nd October 2008, 11:10pm
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#5 | | Pos-Reprehensible
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| Re: If a pill could be given...
When you say 'pill', you mean Es, right?
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2nd October 2008, 11:13pm
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#6 | | Nervous Energy
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Originally Posted by LesMTS ...that would make someone absolutely happy with slavery and happy with a life of servitude, more happy even than their master would be through having a servant, would it be okay to feed someone such a pill and make them a slave? | No need for a pill, just a little bit of programming... 
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#7 | | bordeebarbushbarbon Editor
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Originally Posted by JennyPiccolo No. | Why not?
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#8 | | Porch Monkey 4 Life!
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Originally Posted by LesMTS ...that would make someone absolutely happy with slavery and happy with a life of servitude, more happy even than their master would be through having a servant, would it be okay to feed someone such a pill and make them a slave? | I'd say it all depends on the actual treatment of the slaves than the effects of the pill itself.
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2nd October 2008, 11:20pm
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#9 | | Wide as the Clyde
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| Re: If a pill could be given...
Because it's humiliating, takes away dignity and the right to earn for yourself and your family.
whether the person is aware of it or not is irrelevant. If you're going down that route, why not make mentally disabled women prositutes? THEY WON'T KNOW. | |
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2nd October 2008, 11:21pm
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| Re: If a pill could be given...
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Originally Posted by Big_Boss I'd say it all depends on the actual treatment of the slaves than the effects of the pill itself. | You're missing the point of the exercise.
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#11 | | Pos-Reprehensible
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Originally Posted by Big_Boss I'd say it all depends on the actual treatment of the slaves than the effects of the pill itself. | Why? They'd be happy about their treatment regardless.
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2nd October 2008, 11:24pm
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Originally Posted by LesMTS You're missing the point of the exercise. | Care to clarify the point then? I mean does this pill take away all their senses apart from the desire to work? Or does it allow them to still feel emotions like other people while removing their sense of dignity?
I could see the use of such a pill in enforcing ideas like community service.
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Originally Posted by JennyPiccolo Because it's humiliating | In what way is it humiliating for them, if they don't feel humiliated by it?
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2nd October 2008, 11:26pm
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#14 | | bordeebarbushbarbon Editor
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| Re: If a pill could be given...
Just so you know, I don't actually think this a good thing to do.
I read a variation of it in a list of supposably unanswerable moral and philosophical questions, and found it interesting.
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2nd October 2008, 11:28pm
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#15 | | Pos-Reprehensible
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Originally Posted by Big_Boss Care to clarify the point then? I mean does this pill take away all their senses apart from the desire to work? Or does it allow them to still feel emotions like other people while removing their sense of dignity? | The question he's asking extends to a wider point-- is it okay for people to be subjected to situations which are detrimental to them, even if they themselves can be conditioned to not be emotionally bothered by it? Quote:
Originally Posted by Big_Boss I could see the use of such a pill in enforcing ideas like community service. | Fucking hell.
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