Drugs for positive reinforcement

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Drugs for positive reinforcement 12/09/15 (Wed) 09:05:02 No.3618

Would it be ethical to give a highly-addictive, high-dopamine drug to kids, and then only allow them to get more if they studied science hard and passed tests?

Sounds like drugs could be a great motivator if used for positive reinforcement, rather than creating sex addicts in doujins. Imagine how many kids would become accomplished lifelong scholars if a benevolent university administered the drugs.

12/29/15 (Tue) 19:21:06 No.3670

>>3618

I feel like you would need to keep the kids in a prison like environment though, because those drugs could be available in the public relatively easily. The kids could just leave and get some.

Now what could be used is a much more simple method, regarding behaviorism (One of the few fields of psychology that is consistently provable). If you kept kids in a prison like environment and had some type of positive reinforcement (It could range from direct praise to special privileges to anything you can think of) you could truly create a class of super scholars.

12/29/15 (Tue) 23:49:29 No.3672

>implying china isn't doing this at this very moment

01/02/16 (Sat) 15:53:38 No.3696

>>3618

>would it be ethical

no.

and it also wouldnt work.

01/02/16 (Sat) 18:53:47 No.3700

This scheme helps you separate out the mentally weak, who just wander off and become addicts for your police state to play with, from those with the drive to perform for their drugs.

01/02/16 (Sat) 22:47:03 No.3702

>ethical

>easily abused

Yes

>guaranteed to create a class of 'scientists' less talented and more fucked up than a reddit board

Also yes