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> I then would like to see a law mandating its use for all people who who have a DUI. The problem is that such vaccine wouldn't only work when you are in a veh
by davidhollander 15y ago
> I then would like to see a law mandating its use for all people who who have a DUI.
The problem is that such vaccine wouldn't only work when you are in a vehicle or prevent you from making other stupid decisions. This really wouldn't address the root cause and would be a pretty egregious violation of an individual's freedom of thought.
The idea of the state having authority to permanately biologically alter an individual to control his or her behavior is a throwback to the time of lobotomies, which even the Soviet Union banned in the 1950s.
- scarmig 15y ago"Even the Soviet Union" is a bit misleading, though I understand where you're coming from. The USSR banned lobotomies in 1950, while in the USA it was banned... never (though some states individually did). In fact the USSR was the first major country to ban lobotomies. Lobotomies legally happen even today in the USA, though there's no longer the epidemic of wanton misuse. I just say this because it's easy to get into the rut where anything the Soviet Union did was bad and everything the USA did was good. There's no reason per se to expect Soviet doctors to be particularly evil compared to American ones. Which isn't to justify the many many evil things the Soviet state did perpetrate.