While many will be celebrating love in a few days on Valentines Day, some scientists have been working hard (lol), an anti-love pill. Their philosophy is that Love is an addictive state of being, and therefore should have a cure .Anti-love biotechnology would see feelings associated with love limited using medicine, and treated like addiction or depression.
From Independent .uk
"Recent brain studies show extensive parallels between the effects of certain addictive drugs and experiences of being in love.
"You can imagine a situation in which a person's experience of love is so profoundly harmful, yet so irresistible, that it undermines their ability to think rationally for themselves," "Some people in dangerous relationships know they need to get out, and even want to, but are unable to break their emotional attachment. If, for example, a woman in an abusive relationship could access medication that would help her break ties with her abuser, then, assuming it was safe and effective, we think she could be justified in taking it .
Anti-love drugs are unofficially already in use, with Earp noting that in Israel some ultra-Orthodox Jews have prescribed antidepressants to young yeshiva students to reduce their libido, using the side effect of the drug as its main use.
"It is important to be careful about making broad recommendations," Earp cautioned. "There aresome people who are so devastated for such a long time after a break-up that they can't move on. Part of this might be depression, for which we already have many treatments.
"Even in a case of domestic abuse, that can be life-threatening, we wouldn't recommend forcing drug-based treatment on someone against their will: non-biochemical interventions should be tried first."
The dulling of extreme emotions and loosening of romantic bonds remain a side-effect of antidepressants that boost serotonin but in a digital age that makes relationships more intense and constant than ever, it's easy to see how they could become desirable.
In Japan, some men have already taken matters into their own hands. A social phenomenon known as 'Herbivore men' sees males shunning girlfriends or marriage to focus on their own lives.
2 comments:
Love, is not an illness so should not be treated with medication. I don't think being trapped in an abusive relationship is love. It is being oppressed and believing it will get better. Or someone living in denial. And that can't be love.it could be an obsession or infatuation Some women will stay in worse situations for the sake of their children. Science give it a rest yea
Hmmmm! Thought the Bible says it's the greatest gift. Why should it be considered as such. May be if they look at it from the Biblical dimension whey will use a different Lens.
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