ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
The problem honestly is your concept of hormones is incomplete. There are no hormones that only do one thing. They might have a primary function. But they all have secondary and tertiary functions. They all regulate other hormones. Evolution doesn’t do single functions.
If you knock down a “fight” hormone you’re probably going to mess up the homeostasis of the body in other ways. You can probably “fix” that artificially, but you’ll be constantly chasing the next side effect. Humans are chemical Rube Goldberg machines of infinite order. Disrupt one thing and it all goes out of whack.
cameron_vale@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Then go with “freedom fom the mind-altering influences”. What would that look like?
Alto@kbin.social 1 year ago
That doesn't exist, considering things as basic as hungry is a mind-altering influence
cameron_vale@lemm.ee 1 year ago
There was a whole explanatory block of text after the title that you missed.
I’m referring to the big famous mind-altering hormones. Testosterone, estrogen. The fighting and fucking urge that shapes 99% of politics, advertising and popular music.