it’s interesting that you reacted to my comments about high testosterone and chemical imbalance with the idea that giving testosterone blockers to most men would make them miserable
I said that because I didn’t know how large the difference was, or whether the idea was to target a class of particularly high-T violent criminals or to douse anyone in prison regardless of previous T levels. I’m also slightly afraid that the implementation will tilt toward the latter.
One bottleneck that has been proposed is that people perceive testosterone reduction as unhealthy
Screwing around with hormones is risky. The pill has a lot of health risks, so do T injections, supplementing menopausal women turned out to be a terrible idea. But that just points to “test it and see what happens”.
or as a thing that would depersonalize a man by reducing his manliness
Well, duh. It’s the point.
This ties into a deeper fear: you can fine me, jail me, whip me, send me to the mines, but I’ll still be me. (Inasmuch as the distinction between personality and environment is valid.) When you start controlling mood-affecting chemicals, you’re taking away my freedom of thought in a very real sense. I do think that the human rights infringement to social benefits ratio is better than for prisons, but it’s not a negligible cost.
As selfish castration anxiety analogues go, I don’t know if “We, not you, decide to mess with your hormones” and “You don’t really need T” outbalance “Messing with hormones is normal” and “All hormones in moderation”.
I said that because I didn’t know how large the difference was, or whether the idea was to target a class of particularly high-T violent criminals or to douse anyone in prison regardless of previous T levels. I’m also slightly afraid that the implementation will tilt toward the latter.
Screwing around with hormones is risky. The pill has a lot of health risks, so do T injections, supplementing menopausal women turned out to be a terrible idea. But that just points to “test it and see what happens”.
Well, duh. It’s the point.
This ties into a deeper fear: you can fine me, jail me, whip me, send me to the mines, but I’ll still be me. (Inasmuch as the distinction between personality and environment is valid.) When you start controlling mood-affecting chemicals, you’re taking away my freedom of thought in a very real sense. I do think that the human rights infringement to social benefits ratio is better than for prisons, but it’s not a negligible cost.
As selfish castration anxiety analogues go, I don’t know if “We, not you, decide to mess with your hormones” and “You don’t really need T” outbalance “Messing with hormones is normal” and “All hormones in moderation”.