If uncontrollable aggression can be flawlessly controlled, for instance, and the victim of it made happier thereby, then its political expression can be just as cured as its personal one, however – by the same technique – and the patient will be grateful afterwards, so who’s to object?” These technologies, their users, uses, and regulation touched upon issues of agency, free will, individual vs. collective good, and potentially likely political abuses when, after “some initial coercive step, consent can be flawlessly engineered.”
