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A comment on Psychedelics and Psychotherapy. Parent comment

Re:Psychedelics and Psychotherapy by tbrownaw on Sunday March 29, 2015 @08:34PM (#9287089)
I'm pretty sure there have been cases where laws were needed to counteract social pressures that pushed towards violence. Such as the origins of "an eye for an eye". Your item (2) seems to assume that social pressures are universally positive, or at least towards non-violence.
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Re:Psychedelics and Psychotherapy by WhitneyLand on Sunday March 29, 2015 @10:29PM (#9287355)
Not social pressures, rather having a conscious. The existence of empathy, compassion, etc has certainly helped the cause of mercy.
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Re:Psychedelics and Psychotherapy by tbrownaw on Sunday March 29, 2015 @11:31PM (#9287533)
Your conscience will be vastly different depending on what culture you trained it in.
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