{"id":2488,"date":"2015-10-16T21:35:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T02:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2015-10-16T21:35:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T02:35:35","slug":"the-essence-of-moral-choice-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/10\/16\/the-essence-of-moral-choice-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Essence of Moral Choice, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to enhancing <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/10\/14\/the-essence-of-moral-choice\/\" target=\"_blank\">moral choices<\/a>, one reader has an idea:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span data-reactid=\".3.1:5:1:$comment1152934078067556_1153090668051897\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1\"><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\" data-reactid=\".3.1:5:1:$comment1152934078067556_1153090668051897\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\" data-reactid=\".3.1:5:1:$comment1152934078067556_1153090668051897\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0\"><span data-reactid=\".3.1:5:1:$comment1152934078067556_1153090668051897\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end\/=1$text0\/=010\">So, citalopram for all congresscritters and titans of industry, I say.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another reader hits the obvious home run:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"fbPhotoImage\" class=\"fbPhotoImage img\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-xpt1\/v\/t1.0-9\/s720x720\/12115761_10207435967194652_8988378849496676720_n.jpg?oh=e28b25fe8e64d2a36e356bae961ac581&amp;oe=5690FF19\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which had slipped my mind completely.\u00a0\u00a0 I present, without comment (since I&#8217;m out of context), from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Clockwork_Orange\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In his essay, &#8220;Clockwork Oranges,&#8221;<sup class=\"noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact\">[<i><a title=\"Wikipedia:Citation needed\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Citation_needed\"><span title=\"This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2013)\">citation needed<\/span><\/a><\/i>]<\/sup> Burgess asserts that &#8220;this title would be appropriate for a story about the application of <a title=\"Ivan Pavlov\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ivan_Pavlov\">Pavlovian<\/a> or mechanical laws to an organism which, like a fruit, was capable of colour and sweetness.&#8221; This title alludes to the protagonist&#8217;s positive emotional responses to feelings of evil which prevent the exercise of his <a title=\"Free will\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free_will\">free will<\/a>. 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 <sup id=\"cite_ref-16\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Clockwork_Orange#cite_note-16\">[16]<\/a><\/sup> in the form of nausea and &#8220;feelings of terror&#8221; caused by an <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Emesis\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emesis\">emetic<\/a> medicine administered just before the presentation of the films.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0\u00a0 I present, without comment (since I&#8217;m out of context), from Wikipedia: In his essay, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/10\/16\/the-essence-of-moral-choice-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}