From The Atlantic:
It is a good question, but I was a little surprised to see it as the title of a research paper in a medical journal: “How Happy Is Too Happy?”
Yet there it was in a publication from 2012. The article was grappling with the issue of how we should deal with the possibility of manipulating people’s moods and feelings of happiness through brain stimulation. If you have direct access to the reward system and can turn the feeling of euphoria up or down, who decides what the level should be? The doctors or the person whose brain is on the line?
The authors were asking this question because of a patient who wanted to decide the matter for himself: a 33-year-old German man who had been suffering for many years from severe OCD and generalized anxiety syndrome. A few years earlier, his doctors had implanted electrodes in a central part of his brain’s reward system—namely, the nucleus accumbens. Electrically stimulating the patient’s brain had worked rather well on his symptoms, but now it was time to change the stimulator battery.
(Score: 2) by Virindi on Saturday April 28 2018, @11:54AM
How so? I said society as a WHOLE is self-regulating, not that it doesn't destroy individuals. Or that all individuals couldn't deal with it. I said nothing about individuals :)
I think some individuals are capable of self-control of this kind of thing and others are not. But that is unrelated to my previous point; I was merely assuming the worst case scenario and saying even in that case it would be okay.