I’m sure that when Leon Kass and The New Atlantis crowd raise concerns about the ongoing biotech revolution, this is precisely the kind of thing they have in mind.

Research into alleviating post-traumatic stress has thrown up a worrying side effect. The drugs that work also numb feelings of guilt – raising the spectre not only of a pill to make soldiers amoral killing machines, but of thieves, rapists and murderers who feel no remorse

I’m sure Reason’s Ron Bailey knows why this shouldn’t alarm us. Ron?