zumbledum said:
So this theoretical procedure can pretty much change anything? Now I'm even more against it.
There is a difference between giving someone medicine and forcibly changing the way that they think, especially when you crossed the line into changing the way that people think because they're "ignorant". Would that involve creationists too? And there's a difference between actively causing harm to someone and having a less than ideal mindset. Are we supposed to just assume that bi-polars and depressive people would cause harms to others and modify their minds before they even do anything? Because that's basically living in the world of Psycho Pass, which I can't really recommend. In cases like your father's, exceptions could be made considering he's proven himself dangerous to others, but I have to question if all the situations for this procedure would be in cases like that.
Yeah, but the thing is I've been exposed to dozens if not hundreds of teachers over my life, each with a different viewpoint and perspective. That's why schools have so many different teachers, so people don't learn in an echo chamber. What's more, there's a difference between teaching someone something, convincing them to follow a certain mindset, and forcibly and irreversibly changing a person's mind. Again, against their will.
Because the thing that keeps coming up "against their will". All of those things don't use drugs to eliminate "ignorant" behavior, which as I've stated time and time before, has a different definition based on who you're talking to. People out there think that certain political viewpoints are ignorant.
I know they weren't part of the OP, but you brought up the "ignorant" aspect. What was your intended meaning? Use drugs to beam a second language into someone's head? Because, even then, that's modifying someone's body, and shouldn't be done, and I'll say it again, against a person's will. Heck, even in schools people are allowed to not go, parent's are allowed to homeschool their kid if they think the education system isn't up to snuff. School is not forced. Which is why I'm against this. Among other things.
Yeah, everyone knows what ignorant means, lacking knowledge. The problem is that people don't agree on what knowledge people need to have to not be considered ingorant.