Freedom of will versus the prevention of atrocities

[kajarainbow]

If you had a method of making people nice, or at least making them not do the really terrible things that happen everyday (carnage and suffering around the world), is it morally acceptable to preemptively use it on everyone and sundry? Is it okay to use it only on proven offenders?

Does the inviolability of their psyches outweigh making the human race far better off?

Comments

[kajarainbow.livejournal.com]

It's a vague question because I was trying to probe what people would find acceptable and unacceptable. If it helps, think of several examples maybe... One possibility would be altering the mechanics of aggression in their brains so that it only triggers in self-defense, or the use of pacification gas, or whatever. A variety of possible parameters. If this makes the question too general for you to answer, well, I didn't have a precise scenario in mind.