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Question

I just read an article in which stated that electrical brain stimulation of certain regions of the brain can induce a euphoria that is perfect. It states that the test subject would rather experience such happiness rather than any other activity, including those such as eating if starving or other life threatening situations. From the right for all americans to pursue happiness, is not it reasonable that one can implant an electrode into one's own brain to induce euphoria? Laws do not pervent getting a tattoo, or cutting yourself with a knife, or even sometimes committing suicide, but the pervention of medical surgical procedures is prevailant. We may seem to think that it is all about corporate America, who will buy the goods and help businesses succeed if everyone just wanted one thing:to stimulate their brain for mere cents rather than buy a expensive meal, car, house, etc.? How can any country have a right to our body if they claim to be a free democracy? We are born with the right

Underlying point of this statement is not the example but government restrictions. It is not this that bothers me just that we as HUMANS have the right to our bodies, if I CHOOSE to jump off of a bridge, I can do it and nobody can stop me, why are there heroin and other illicit drugs on the streets then...it is illegal but still HAPPENING, human desire always overcomes laws because human desire is the laws of nature which always superceed government laws, if I lived in Antartica I could do anything could I not? So why not here is my point. We are being fooled by the laws set forth by this so smart government who can't wipe their own asses without 50 advisers to tell them where it is under all that belly fat(metaphor). I seem to waste my time making people understand this, no wonder why only 1/4 americans graduate college. You believe what you are told, so if the president says so it is ok, until he tells you to shoot your family and then bury yourself. Would you do it then??? Yes.

Answer 1

as far as melon scratchers go, that's a honeydoodle!

Answer 2

A lot of the stuff you write is simply factually WRONG. 1) Since most of the Universe is practically empty, the Earth is by no means in a tiny perfect spot that allows observation of the Universe. The opposite is true. It would be a staggering coincidence if we were in a spot that totally denied observation. 2) It's wrong to make an argument from ignorance to try to infer a god. You do this by invoking the fine-tuning argument. Do we, in fact, have any evidence that the values of the fundamental constants of the Universe could even be anything other than their current values? The answer is of course that we do NOT. Therefore any conclusion from the fine-tuning argument is just an another form of the 'God-of-the-Gaps' -argument. EDIT: "if there was a tiny difference in 25 different things(that we know of) such as gravity, the speed of light, the size of an atom, etc. the universe would collapse on itself, or stars would burn out before planets had a chance to form, or a million other things that would have hampered life in general. Well?" You see, this is what I'm talking about. Factually wrong again. Have you actually looked at any of these studies? I suspect you haven't. They are all just mathematical models that presuppose different constants. But do we have any evidence that the constants actually even can differ, even by a tiny amount? We do NOT. Therefore the studies bear little relevance to reality. And surprise surprise, we're again back to square one with zero evidence for a god. Also, a recent study has found even if all the constants would be determined by thows of the dice, the odds of forming life-sustaining environments aren't that improbable.

Answer 3

Your theory is flawed. You do not have an ultimate right to your own body. And the 'right to pursue happiness' is not in the Constitution, it's in the Declaration of Independence, therefore, it is not a right. "Happiness", as expressed in the Declaration, means the occupation of your choice, not a state of being happy. Life, obvious; Liberty, freedoms like speech, assembly, free from servitude, etc.; Happiness, make your living as you see fit, or make no living at all.

As for the right to voluntary, elective implantation, yes, you have that right. If not, breast augmentation would be illegal. Your problem is that you are justifying it under false presumptions. The only restrictions on the procedure would be the same as any other procedure: FDA approval, licensed facilities, trained doctors, etc.

Answer 4

This is the type of discussion that my husband and I have all the time.

This is what usually ends up as our resolution.

Personal Responsibility is the cause of all good and bad as it relates to human behavior & government. Let me explain.

If I could trust that the guy next door wouldn't drink and drive impaired and hurt someone I love than the government wouldn't need DUI laws.

If you not wearing your seatbelt and got hurt and it only affected you fine but it doesn't, in 99% of cases my insurance rates and taxes would go up because of your choice, I want seat belt laws.

If you look at the that example of a euphoria chip you described- in such a euphoric state I believe a lot of the choices that the inividual with the chip would make could have consequences to others with varying degrees of severity.

We vote to try to put people in place that we trust will do the right thing in making laws to protect those of us against those who don't have personal responsibility.

Get it?

Answer 5

Think of how ugly it would be for masses of people to just sit and shock themselves into bliss until they eventually die from starvation.

Another desire humans have which is even stronger than their desire to eat when starving to death is to experience something beautiful, to have some meaning for their own life and the world. Implants are not meaningful.

There is no 'right to pursue happiness'. I dont know what bill of rights you are reading, but you need to find an actual copy of the bill of rights, because you seem extremely mislead on which rights it grants the US citizens.

Attempting suicide is against the law by the way.

Answer 6

As you have stated, suicide is illegal in most cases.
Then again, smoking kills, and some think it is pleasurable. So where do we draw the line when it comes to which is harmful and which is pleasurable? It's a tough one to ponder.
I think the decision should be based on whether or not our pleasure is harming others directly or indirectly, and a one strike you're out attitude is appropriate in all cases. With this attitude, all smokers should be forced to stop (and anyone wanting to lay there and feel good for a week while starving to death should be able to do that if they choose, as long as they have no outstanding legal responsibilities to anyone or anything.(child support, personal debts, house mortgage, or military duties.)
Very good subject for a question!

Answer 7

well first of all my opinion of this is that our body doesn't belong to us entirely...
We are all made in the image of God and well its up to us to live up to it .
However as far as being Happy that too is a blessing from God to have different expressions on our faces and also to have different feelings.

True Happiness won't come unless we know Jesus Christ our Lord& savior!

All yeah we may pretend to be happy or may be for a fleeting moment or two,
But it is not a lasting thing!
Sure Christians have their bad days as well as eveyone else ,however and its a BIG however we
know who we can turn to at the end of perhaps a long hard day !
Jesus is the way and Only way!
I personally feel like some of the Drs that "God" gave wisdom to spend entirely way too much time trying to play God themselves.......

Yes! it would be great if everyone could experince true happiness all the time ,but being human that will not happen and shouldn't by the hand of DRs ....

Answer 8

Sounds like a super drug. It makes us feel so good, that we don't have any sense of good reason. In our society, we outlaw drugs because of that. So I think it would be a good idea to ban that form of brain stimulation as well. Yes, we're a democracy with freedoms, but we're also a nation of people who want to be healthy and well too.

Answer 9

It sounds good in some ways but that might lead to brain issue's later in life. My mother got shock treatment back in the mid 1990's and has had many strokes because all her blood vessels in her brain are weak because of the shocks.

Answer 10

Implanting unneccessary 'things' in your brain is stepping over the line. Think of ethics, think of the people who cant afford it. People should create their own happiness. DOing someting like that is immoral, Im not even religious and it sounds freaky to me.

Answer 11

Whew, take a breath...it sounds like this is potentially more harmful than illegal drugs...messing with the brain can be lethal.