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Re:Eliminating wars by designing and deploying a highly cont... by aristus on Monday October 08, 2007 @02:04PM (#64898)
You're begging the question. There is no 'be violent' chemical in our brains. It's a complex emergent behavior. So your hypothetical virus would either be ineffective, or so effective it make the organism (that's YOU) unable to feed itself.
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Re:Eliminating wars by designing and deploying a highly cont... by amichail on Monday October 08, 2007 @02:09PM (#64900)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone#Effects_on_the_bra...
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Re:Eliminating wars by designing and deploying a highly cont... by hemidemisemiqvr on Monday October 08, 2007 @04:26PM (#64948)
Decreasing our testosterone would reduce violent tendancies, but it would also mess with our ability to reproduce. And besides, war isn't usually about irrational aggression, it's often more about fear, which afaik is mitigated by testosterone
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