Emotion is a complex system that happens to everybody in their everyday life. Imagine if someday, everybody is compulsory to take anti-emotion pills that render us emotionless for an extended time for whatever reasons they will make, will you agree to that? In my opinion, I am against this idea because some emotions spice up our life, it is against the freedom of expression, and a waste of money.
As everyone depends on their emotion to show how they currently feel, life will be bland without them. They are the one that makes our typical normal interaction become interesting. With a current emotion like anger or joy, they can channel their feelings into other interactions to increase performance. For instance, an artist feeling sad can be inspired to paint a painting with a sad theme. As he has the emotion appropriate to the theme, he can paint well and improve the quality of the painting, thus increasing the price of the painting. When the pill is taken, they will be like emotionless robots walking around just doing their work. When performing any interaction emotionless, it will be less meaningful and boring. Emotions are unique as they evoke the sense of a meaningful life.
Moreover,forcing everyone to take anti-emotion pills can have devastating effect from those who oppose it. The freedom of expression has long been implemented in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights where people have the rights to hold their opinion without interference as long as the expression is appropriate (not about child pornography, obscenity and much more). When the freedom of expression has been taken away from the people, they will do anything in their power to fight for that right in the form of a social uprising. From such actions, the situation of any country who implement this idea will be chaotic later. People who agree and disagree with the idea will disrupt their peace as they are divided by their opinions. From here, even a small pill can bring bad effects in our life.
Furthermore, providing enough anti-emotion pills for everybody can be a waste of money. The country has to put a lot of money on the production of the pills in to ensure everybody gets one. Not all people will eat them though as there are some people who dislike taking medicine or they believe that they are perfectly fine without it. As only a few people will benefit from it, a lot of money have been wasted. The country then will have financial problems as they spent a huge amount of money on the production of the pills, thus lowering the economy of the country itself. Providing everybody with the pills is an effortless idea as not all will consume it and the production causes a lot of money which can be used to other revenues like education or health.
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