Kit Knightly – Off-Guardian June 25, 2026
This article was originally published six years ago, at the height of Covid hysteria. I remember writing it in a couple of hours, fueled by shocked outrage.
The paper I was responding too was the stuff of nightmares, filled with horrific newspeak language made all the more appalling by its coy euphemisms.
I wanted to bring it back today because, while the article I responded to was about Covid at the time, the idea predates the “pandemic” by several years.
This toxic idea has not gone away, even if you haven’t heard it in a while. It’s being debated in ethics journals to this day.
And, as you sit in sweating in the summer heat, and the news gives blaring updates about alleged record temperatures and heatwave death tolls, remember that the original “defectors” who needed “covert moral enhancement” …were climate change sceptics.
Enjoy
KK
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Four days ago the Conversation – an “independent source of news and views, sourced from the academic and research community” – published an article headlined:
‘Morality pills’ may be the US’s best shot at ending the coronavirus pandemic, according to one ethicist
The article’s author is Parker Crutchfield, an Associate Professor of Medical Ethics, Humanities and Law at Western Michigan University, and his argument can be broken down into four key points:
- Wearing masks and social distancing are good for public health
- People who refuse to follow these rules are “defectors” who need to be “morally enhanced”
- This moral enhancement can be achieved with medication to make people more “empathetic” and “co-operative”
- This medication should be compulsory and/or administered secretly via the water supply.
I swear I’m not exaggerating. Not even a little bit. To absorb the full horror I suggest you read it for yourself (and then read the comment section as well, it will make you feel better) but, if you’re not so inclined, here are some choice quotes:
like receiving a vaccine to beef up your immune system, people could take a substance to boost their cooperative, pro-social behavior.
Moral enhancement is the use of substances to make you more moral. The psychoactive substances act on your ability to reason about what the right thing to do is, or your ability to be empathetic or altruistic or cooperative.
These substances interact directly with the psychological underpinnings of moral behavior […] Then, perhaps, the people who choose to go maskless or flout social distancing guidelines would better understand that everyone, including them, is better off when they contribute, and rationalize that the best thing to do is cooperate.
Another challenge is that the defectors who need moral enhancement are also the least likely to sign up for it […] a solution would be to make moral enhancement compulsory or administer it secretly, perhaps via the water supply.
This isn’t just a panicked response to an unforeseen emergency, Crutchfield’s area of bioethics research focuses on “questions like how to induce those who are noncooperative to get on board with doing what’s best for the public good”, and a look through his articles reveals that this is an agenda which pre-dates our current “pandemic”.
There’s The epistemology of moral bioenhancement from 2016 and then Compulsory moral bioenhancement should be covert from just last year.
This isn’t just about masks, if it were implemented it would be a lot more far-reaching. From masks to vaccines to anything else, beyond even the “pandemic”. The author admits as much himself [our emphasis]:
But a strategy like this one could be a way out of this pandemic, a future outbreak or the suffering associated with climate change.
Happy Pills in our water to make us proper cooperative citizens? “Covert moral enhancement” to produce “superior post-persons”?
That is literally “Soma” from Huxley’s Brave New World. It can’t be satirized or exaggerated. It is the very zenith of dystopian horror. And it is being seriously suggested by research scientists in apparently respectable publications.
This may be just one article in a comparatively small (and murkily funded) magazine, but that’s how it starts.
Of course, it also further feeds into the stream of propaganda which seeks to dehumanise those who express dissent.
We’ve already been told that “defectors” are more likely to be narcissists or psychopaths, and seen them subject to police brutality with total impunity.
New Zealand are setting up “quarantine centres” where you will have to stay “indefinitely” if you refuse a to be tested.
And now it’s being seriously posited that those who refuse to comply should be subject to covert medication to render them more malleable to the “public good”.
It’s not hard to see where this is going. Show this article to everyone you know. People have to be told what their world is being turned into, while we still have the brainpower to stop it.
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“Democracy” in action. Now the SATT ( scum at the top ) have to drug us into submission. They must be really scared. Ergo….
More “refuse to do it and you’ll win” BS.
You’ve already lost, because you will never do ANYTHING.
Get a countertop water distiller with a carbon filter — around $380 US — and distill all your drinking water. Nearly everything gets removed. Each of mine have lasted 10-12 years making 3-5 gallons per day, so price is cheap over time. Easier to use than a coffeemaker — no grounds.
Only problen is, THICK Brits would be tripping over themselves to get their allotment of Happy Pills… especially if they came with a complimentary £5 scratch-off! 🤣
Many of the greatest atrocities in history were promulgated under the claim of
“for the greater good”.
HA!
And WHO gets to decide what “the greater good” is?
(Satan?)
Guess who?
They have already put sh!t in the drinking water “for the greater good” and ,most people will attack you if you opine that it should NOT be added.
This is the SAME additive that STALIN (not Hitler) used on people in the concentration camps
to keep them docile.
Yes, i am referring to flouride- the same ingredient used in antidepressants.
Either way, a larger swath of people than the 30% that refused to get the jab, are now realizing that
questioning EVERYTHING any self proclaimed authority tells you, especially if they try to make in compulsory, is advisable to lifesaving.
I doubt if they can force that number (now around 40%) to do a damn thing.
Moral enhancement is well needed – obviously. The majority of Men are on anger pills or anti depressants as are women who are also on happy anxiety pills. The majority of Aussie Kids are on ptsdxyz pills and other tranquillisers others are on hormone enhancers and whoever will be without any pills at all will soon get happy euthanasia pills. 3 -5 daily different doses of whatever pills the exotic NHS laptop doctor will prescribe is something like the norm – for all that seek whirled’s authorities medical help. And to get all of that from the tap, how marvellous that would be – if its properly paid for.
Back than in the beginning of time man was created in God’s image. These days man that once were of God are supplemented and enhanced by Pharmakeia and God must surely have become obsolete.
Moral enhancement is well needed – obviously. The majority of Men are on anger pills or anti depressants as are women who are also on happy anxiety pills. The majority of Aussie Kids are on ptsdxyz pills and other tranquillisers others are on hormone enhancers and whoever will be without any pills at all will soon get happy euthanasia pills. 3 -5 daily different doses of whatever pills the exotic NHS laptop doctor will prescribe is something like the norm – for all that seek whirled’s authorities medical help. And to get all of that from the tap, how marvellous that would be – if its paid for.
Back than man was created in God’s image. These days man that once were of God are supplemented and enhanced by Pharmakeia and God itself must have become obsolete.