Bioethics is the study of the moral issues arising from medicine, biology, and the life sciences.

At first glance, bioethics might seem like just another branch of ethical philosophy,

where academics endlessly debate other academics about how many angels dance

on the head of a pin in far out science fiction like scenarios.

Imagine what's going to happen when we have a memory pill.

First of all, you don't have to raise your hand,

but let's be honest, who here's going to take it?

I've read of a sport.

It's a variant of polo that is, I think, played in Afghanistan Afghanistan if I'm not mistaken where the people ride on horses is

it horses or camels I don't know which. And they use a, what is, it's a dead goat or something,

to, I don't know, whack the polar ball or whatever it is.

So it's not that the goat is experiencing pain, it's dead already.

And yet there is something grim about that practice, wouldn't you agree?

What if I told you that a pill could change your judgment of what is right and what is wrong?

Or what if I told you that your sense of justice could depend on what you had for breakfast this morning.

You're probably thinking by now this sounds like science fiction, right?

But the bioethicists cannot be dismissed so lightly.

Their ideas are being used by governments to assert control over people's bodies

and to enforce that control in increasingly nightmarish ways.

Lithium is a medication that in prescription doses treats mood disorders and people with

bipolar disorder or manic depressive illness.

And what these researchers found in Japan is that it's, lithium is present in trace amounts in the

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