The Essence of Moral Choice, Ctd

When it comes to enhancing moral choices, one reader has an idea:

So, citalopram for all congresscritters and titans of industry, I say.

Another reader hits the obvious home run:

Which had slipped my mind completely.   I present, without comment (since I’m out of context), from Wikipedia:

In his essay, “Clockwork Oranges,”[citation needed] Burgess asserts that “this title would be appropriate for a story about the application of Pavlovian or mechanical laws to an organism which, like a fruit, was capable of colour and sweetness.” This title alludes to the protagonist’s positive emotional responses to feelings of evil which prevent the exercise of his free will. To induce this conditioning, the protagonist is subjected to a technique in which violent scenes displayed on screen, which he is forced to watch, are systematically paired with positive stimulation [16] in the form of nausea and “feelings of terror” caused by an emetic medicine administered just before the presentation of the films.

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