You get to live a happy life and don’t care about all the horrible things happening all across the world. You wouldn’t feel terrible for children getting killed in a genocide half the globe away, every day. Blissful ignorance.
My response would be no. And I suppose most responses are gonna be no, but I also don’t think anyone who already doesn’t care would take a pill to start caring. That’s an interesting concept to me.
I’m sure that what me caring does to my mental state is far worse than however good is anything it does to anyone else. But by that logic, if everyone stopped caring, how would the world look like?
EDIT: It’s permanent. It doesn’t take away your emotions, it just stops you from caring about things like wars as long as they don’t directly affect you. Just like many people already have it.
I would force it on the hysterical right wingers who believe they need to impose their will on the world
Then people would actually be happy
I think you could also argue people like that ought to feel more empathy and understanding for the folks they impose their will on, right?
Some of these people are broken enough that they feel they are protecting “their own” by going on the attack against “the others”.
As long as they can still be led to believe somebody they don’t know is dangerous without evidence, then increasing empathy isn’t a solution by itself. You have to either force them to think twice, apply critical thinking, question sources and motives, demand evidence, etc, or else simply make them stop.