TagKurt Wimmer

Is happiness without emotion truly happiness, and how does the use of drugs to control human emotions affect social norms and value judgments?

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The movie Equilibrium examines the need for emotion and discusses how the development of drugs to control emotions and their use impacts social values and individual freedom.   In the movie Equilibrium, humanity establishes a unified government of Libria after World War III. About five minutes into the movie, soldiers are shown arresting the person hiding the Mona Lisa and burning the Mona...