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Ghertner: Aggression is a bad thing. Making people less aggressive, either through cultural/environmental influences or genetic influences is a good thing. Thus, were we to invent a chemical solution to aggression, it would be wise to release this upon the population at large.

That’s an interesting plan you’ve got there for curtailing aggression, but it has one minor flaw. Specifically, forcing drugs on innocent people against their will is a form of aggression.

Oops.

Ghertner: Perhaps they should have done more testing. But at what point do we conclude that a product has been thoroughly tested and is considered safe?

When someone freely decides that it’s worth the risk and chooses to take it.

One of the chief benefits of being a libertarian is that it makes a lot of things easier. Who needs a central plan for safety testing when people are free to make their own individual decisions about risks and rewards? Or, well, their own minds?