Telepathic Suggestion Ethics
As you may already know, telepathic suggestion is when you telepathically suggest to someone else a thought, command or emotion. Basically, you are influencing them to do what you want whether it is beneficial for you, for them, or for someone else.
On PsiPog, there are has been much debate about the ethics surround TPS; should you use this ability, should you not use this ability. It's a very difficult issue to discuss because there are so many different angles and spins you can put on this and it's very hard to come to a general concensus.
As for myself, when you use telepathic suggestions, I believe you are taking that person's freedom to think and make decisions on their own. You are manipulating them to do something without their consent. (There may be incidents where it was with their consent, but I will go into that later.) I believe that NO ONE has the right to take that inalienable from ANYONE, unless they got consensus from the person.
I do believe there are times when people forfeit this inalienable right though. If there was someone that wished to do harm to me in ANYWAY, rape, assault, murder, and other negative things, I believe that I have the right to protect myself from any negative onslaughts from others. I would not just sit there and let mess with me like that and I don't expect anyone to let that happen to themselves either. No one has the right to do me harm, unless of course I did something harmful to them.
Now here's a spin on the discussion. What if someone came up to you and said they don't like a certain part of their personality and they want to change it but have gotten no success. You tell them you can help them by telepathically suggesting the change they want. They say yes and this equals consent. So I think in this particular situation since they are willing giving up their freedom of choice (in a sense), telepathic suggestion would be an appropriate step to take. If the telepath overexceeded their mandate and decided to mess with the person a little bit is UNACCEPTABLE. Overexceeding what the person allowed is violating their right of freedom of choice and is obviously unacceptable.
Thoughts? Comments?
On PsiPog, there are has been much debate about the ethics surround TPS; should you use this ability, should you not use this ability. It's a very difficult issue to discuss because there are so many different angles and spins you can put on this and it's very hard to come to a general concensus.
As for myself, when you use telepathic suggestions, I believe you are taking that person's freedom to think and make decisions on their own. You are manipulating them to do something without their consent. (There may be incidents where it was with their consent, but I will go into that later.) I believe that NO ONE has the right to take that inalienable from ANYONE, unless they got consensus from the person.
I do believe there are times when people forfeit this inalienable right though. If there was someone that wished to do harm to me in ANYWAY, rape, assault, murder, and other negative things, I believe that I have the right to protect myself from any negative onslaughts from others. I would not just sit there and let mess with me like that and I don't expect anyone to let that happen to themselves either. No one has the right to do me harm, unless of course I did something harmful to them.
Now here's a spin on the discussion. What if someone came up to you and said they don't like a certain part of their personality and they want to change it but have gotten no success. You tell them you can help them by telepathically suggesting the change they want. They say yes and this equals consent. So I think in this particular situation since they are willing giving up their freedom of choice (in a sense), telepathic suggestion would be an appropriate step to take. If the telepath overexceeded their mandate and decided to mess with the person a little bit is UNACCEPTABLE. Overexceeding what the person allowed is violating their right of freedom of choice and is obviously unacceptable.
Thoughts? Comments?
posted by YoYo @ 12:20 AM
1 Comments:
At 2:44 PM,
YoYo said…
Ya true that. There are a lot of assholes out there that only care about their own agenda. I don't think it's right for them to do shitlike that, but what can I really do? I can only tell people that this is what I think and that they shouldn't use TPS unless the other person does something to where, like I said in the article, forfeit their right to privacy and freethinking.
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