She didn’t brainwash them to believe anything in particular, just to listen and respond with reason instead of fear and suspicion. If the other side still wants to kill them, they could reasonably conclude they should continue the fight.
I was thinking the same way on this. Plus it’s pretty reasonable to stop fighting and just talk the crap out and show that all violence is pretty stupid to begin with
That might have the lingering effect that all people affected rather like it, not being stabbed, slashed, hit, kicked in the nadgers or hurt in other imaginative ways. You know, the addictive form of peace that you’d love to last long enough to tell your kids about.
“Hey Gurgh, you remember that ‘nice bomb’ years ago by that winged armored chick?”
“Yeah… good times. Want another beer?”
Reminds me of some of the ethics questions that arose from the “Big Reveal” about the Indigo Tribe rings from DC. They force sociopaths to become compassionate and empathetic. Is that brainwashing? It really wracked Hal Jordan’s mind; the idea of “positive brainwashing”, even theoretically, seems oxymoronic to the American psyche and philosophy in particular. Yet, the rings turned some of the most dangerous people in the universe into a positive force for good.
Nok.
Having a lack of empathy is like a disability and partially genetic.
The researcher who found that out also tested himself and found himself to be like that, thus he might have become like the criminal psychopaths. When he told his coworkers. they asked him: You didn’t know?
Thus one may reason that many people are potentially-criminal psychopaths and a healthy environment may prevent them from becoming criminally insane. These people are the last to know about their condition. One can also conclude that if (a lot of) psychopaths surface, the environment might be unhealthy.
No, it do not.
It requires the ability to to compare descriptions of thought processes, as well as intentions and reasons.
However, descriptions like that is uncommon or even rare in this world, currently.
She didn’t brainwash them to believe anything in particular, just to listen and respond with reason instead of fear and suspicion. If the other side still wants to kill them, they could reasonably conclude they should continue the fight.
I’m pretty OK with the ethics of this power.
I was thinking the same way on this. Plus it’s pretty reasonable to stop fighting and just talk the crap out and show that all violence is pretty stupid to begin with
I’d call it emotional brainwashing unless there is a better word.
All things considered, it’s a light rinse!
After you brainwash, make sure to brain-condition for a fuller, glossier altered state of personality.
That is not “being brainwashed”, that is “being drugged”.
Even though drugs may be used for brainwashing, it is not the same thing.
Sounds like ‘remoralisation’ in Sergei Lukyanenko Night Watch
But when the niceness supercharge wears off…
That might have the lingering effect that all people affected rather like it, not being stabbed, slashed, hit, kicked in the nadgers or hurt in other imaginative ways. You know, the addictive form of peace that you’d love to last long enough to tell your kids about.
“Hey Gurgh, you remember that ‘nice bomb’ years ago by that winged armored chick?”
“Yeah… good times. Want another beer?”
It’s a bit like Try-Before-You-Buy niceness. Once it wears off, you can still decide to be nice on your own.
…and Good Girl is its pushy mall marketing drone who won’t let you refuse a free sample.
I thought that was called “indoctrination”.
She’s just made them more reasonable not necessarily swayed them to her point of view…and I’d be worried about how temporary this is.
“I’ve been holding in the MOTHER of all friendship speeches, and YOU’RE going to listen!”
For Goodness sake, this is so ungood!
Erm… ungood is also ungood because it is an Orwellian word…
How ungood can this get?!
Considering that the alternative to this was fighting and killing people, I’d classify this as ethically reasonable.
Reminds me of some of the ethics questions that arose from the “Big Reveal” about the Indigo Tribe rings from DC. They force sociopaths to become compassionate and empathetic. Is that brainwashing? It really wracked Hal Jordan’s mind; the idea of “positive brainwashing”, even theoretically, seems oxymoronic to the American psyche and philosophy in particular. Yet, the rings turned some of the most dangerous people in the universe into a positive force for good.
Nok.
Having a lack of empathy is like a disability and partially genetic.
The researcher who found that out also tested himself and found himself to be like that, thus he might have become like the criminal psychopaths. When he told his coworkers. they asked him: You didn’t know?
Thus one may reason that many people are potentially-criminal psychopaths and a healthy environment may prevent them from becoming criminally insane. These people are the last to know about their condition. One can also conclude that if (a lot of) psychopaths surface, the environment might be unhealthy.
I mean, it makes sense. Recognizing that your thought processes are inherently different from those of everyone else you requires empathy.
No, it do not.
It requires the ability to to compare descriptions of thought processes, as well as intentions and reasons.
However, descriptions like that is uncommon or even rare in this world, currently.