Should we use in the future nanobots to prevent criminal behavior by changing relevant neural connections?
2006-07-22 10:14:09 · 5 answers · asked by eSoul 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Could we prevent the use of nanobots to read people memories? or to control neural connections and hence thoughts?
2006-07-22 10:29:34 · update #1
No. You've been influenced a bit too much by Minority Report. Humans are born with free will to do as they please, and what you are doing is brainwashing (don't you think people can do that now? Conditioning can change neural pathways and you don't even need robots.) Brainwashing is immoral now and it would be just as immoral to do it with nanobots. People need to focus more on, say, stopping child abuse, poverty, and drug abuse if they'd like to cut down on criminal behavior. What you are proposing is not only immoral, it's a cop-out. Changing criminal behavior means changing society, not brainwashing.
2006-07-22 10:21:11 · answer #1 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, people cannot be changed. I wouldn't think that God would like you to go and change the way people think. It would be better if they were able to control themselves. If we did this, we lose one of God's greatest gifts to us, free will. We'll be like robots, everytime we do something bad, our thoughts are altered. It would be like the world imagined in The Giver, except worse.
2006-07-22 10:18:42 · answer #2 · answered by BK Randy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if you're in favor of totalitarian control. This reminds me of Stanley Kubrick's, "A Clockwork Orange." Have any of you seen it?
2006-07-22 10:20:06 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't know that was possible with nanotechnology.. Did they say it was an option??
I'd say no though..
2006-07-22 10:25:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i say no. but when has my opinion ever counted for anything?
2006-07-22 10:19:57 · answer #5 · answered by sheepherder 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋