AdmiralCheez wrote...
Let's pretend that doctors invent a pill that makes people stop being violent or racist or whatever. This pill also has the added benefit of making people smarter, healthier, and happier. Now, would it be okay for the government to force everyone to take this pill? Would it be okay if they sent soldiers out in the middle of the night to sneak into your room and place a tablet under your tongue while you slept?
"These are just a few of the images we've recorded, and as you can see... it isn't what we thought. There's been no war here, and no terraforming event - the environment is stable. It's the Pax. The G-23 Paxilon hydrochlorate that we added to the air processors. It was supposed to calm the population, weed out aggression... well, it works. The people here stopped fighting. Then they stopped everything else. They stopped going to work. They stopped breeding, talking, eating. There's thirty million people here, and they all just let themselves die.
*crash*
"I have to be quick! About a tenth of a percent of the population had the opposite reaction. Their aggressor response increased, beyond madness. They've become... well, they've killed most of us. I won't live to report this, but people need to know. We meant it for the best - to make people safer. Oh God! NO!!!"