Not possible with current technology, but...

A thin slice of extremely-stable plastic explosive is implanted into every citizen's cranial cavity at birth, along with a reliable (impossible to trigger by accident or remotely) activation mechanism. Result: a society populated by level-headed, mentally-stable individuals exclusively...
-- dsm, Feb 06 2001

Your concept is certainly interesting, but how will you deal with the subcuteous plasma matrix?
-- pnewp, Feb 06 2001


You can call it "care in the community".

I can see this benefiting mostly dry-cleaners and people with a violent, irrational hatred of the mentally ill. What's in it for the rest?
-- Monkfish, Feb 06 2001


Glory devices are for hyperactive Japanese raccoons.
-- centauri, Feb 06 2001


I read about this in a sci-fi book once, except it was collars for criminals. Really a very interesting plot, although the ending was stupid.
-- salmon, Feb 07 2001


dsm,

Your ideas seem to follow a certain theme:

American Kamikaze Corps / Anti-gamete Virus Artificial Masochism / Auditory Sensory Deprivation Device /Elective Neurosurgery /Eye Burner / Implanted Glory Device / 'Machete' Browser / Moorings / Pain Machine / Private World / Serial Guillotine / Silent Machine / Suicide Booths / Uncivilized Shutdown / Universal Refuge /World-Domination Machine

What's with the bleak outlook?
-- iuvare, Feb 08 2001


We all have our interests...
-- dsm, Feb 08 2001


True, and diversity is what makes things interesting...but that's not my point.

I just thought ideas were posted so as to make things better. Your solutions strike me as the equivalent of throwing up one's hands and saying "F*ck it, let's just call it quits."
-- iuvare, Feb 08 2001


Sounds like perfect fodder for Pinky and the Brain episodes.

I'd rather think of the device as a 'Retroactive Abortion Device' . If you go through life pissing people off, then people can vote against you. When you reach a certain score, it's lights out. Kind of a democratic Darwinism.
-- RobGraham, Feb 09 2001


r u a happy preson iuvare?
-- edski, Feb 09 2001


...uh, what?...
-- iuvare, Feb 09 2001


Given the randomness of violence these days, it pays to be level headed. Before tailgating that person for cutting you off, consider the possibility that they keep a loaded pistol in their car. Before telling someone at the office what a mindless jerk he is, imagine he has an entire rec-room filled with unlicensed automatic weaponry.
-- centauri, Feb 09 2001



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