> Why not also mandate the use of drugs that promote good behavior, by law? Because the state can police your body and not your soul, and psychoactive drugs ma

> Why not also mandate the use of drugs that promote good behavior, by law? Because the state can police your body and not your soul, and psychoactive drugs may interfere with the autonomous choice of the individual's rational, wilful faculty. It's okay to restrain the individual's capacity for action, if that action causes harm, and not to restrain their choice to choose that action. It's okay to encourage the individual to do something, and punish if it goes undone, if that something works for the individual or others. It’s okay to make some information illegal to disseminate, when doing so would cause harm, and it is not okay to force people to think or forget something, because someone’s mind is their unassailable temple, their own kingdom, entirely their own domain. So mandatory administration of psychoactives is unlawful invasion of foreign soil, it’s rape of the domain of the mind, which is a temple of autonomy. The only place where an invasion on foreign soil is not a rape of a place's autonomy is if the foreign soil is unable to administer its own affairs ( with respect to the current social context ) and unable to effects its own autonomy and is falling into chaos threatening to destabilise itself and neighbours. People with mental illness who are risks to themselves or others are such. So it's not okay to force people to take psychoactives, unless they actually work for the person or others -- and when this does work, then it happens, and in some places, psychiatric intervention is required by law. The state can cause you to take psychoactives, in other words. Forcing entire populations to take drugs that promote good behaviour ( ie, the common good )? Well that population would have to be pretty far gone ( say, if there was a major climate event, and widespread vigilantism, looting and violence, it would be okay to crop-spray aerosolized pacifiers to protect people & infrastructure ). And yet, in peacetime, well there’s less utility, and, anyway, don’t we already have that ? It’s called culture. The thing about culture is, you can think your way out of it, you can unplug. The thing about mass administration of psychoactives is they may interfere with the autonomous choice of your rational, wilful faculty. In other words, they may be the mental equivalent, of physical force.