(I didn’t read the article) Is it the drug or is it the pain the drug is taken to alleviate? If I’ve got a headache or muscle soreness I’m more likely to focus on that than someones fee-fees.
Acetaminophen […] blunts physical and social pain by reducing activation in brain areas thought to be related to emotional awareness and motivation.
Is that maybe why there been an uptick of bad people in the last couple of decades.
Nar, probably the material systems rewarding such behaviors
On the other hand, people may be more willing to allow material systems to decay because they’re becoming less empathetic.
Acetaminophen doesn’t exactly have a long lasting effect. And this is 1/4 of the maximum recommended daily dose administered at once. I think if people were regularly taking enough tylenol that it has a mass societal effect we’d be seeing a lot more liver failures.
