We Can Do Anything We Like As

Imagine A Society That Subjects People To Conditions That Make Them Terribly Unhappy, Then Gives Them The Drugs To Take Away Their Unhappiness. Science Fiction? It Is Already Happening To Some Extent In Our Own Society... Instead Of Removing The Conditions That Make People Depressed, Modern Society Gives Them Antidepressant Drugs. In Effect, Antidepressants Are A Means Of Modifying An Individual's Internal State In Such A Way As To Enable Him To Tolerate Social Conditions That He Would Otherwise Find Intolerable.

People Do Not Consciously And Rationally Choose The Form Of Their Society. Societies Develop Through Processes Of Social Evolution That Are Not Under Rational Human Control.

I Would Just Turn My Back And Wouldn't Talk To Him.

I Believe In Nothing.

It Is Important Not To Confuse Freedom With Mere Permissiveness