Our obsession with preventing all suffering could result one day in being involuntarily drugged with a psychotropic. According to the New York Times Magazine, scientists are seriously proposing that lithium one day be put in the water supply.
Nevertheless, Terao and his team contend that the lithium levels in their study are low enough not to cause significant side effects, and that in any case the benefits outweigh the risks. In a follow-up paper, they even posited that adding lithium to drinking water could "potentially offer an easy, cheap and substantial strategy for worldwide suicide prevention."
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