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"But winning at ideas is absolute. The faster you find a cure for cancer the better." This would suggest that one could argue that all children should be given these medicines starting in kindergarten. One could argue that on the basis of US competitiveness in a global economy.

Taking these arguments to their logical conclusions gives me flash backs to Huxley.

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That's one reason I explicitly said that I didn't advocate using drugs for such purposes.

I know. I caught that. My point is that is the kind of logic that the rest of society might latch onto. The risk is that study drugs are at a non-trivial risk of being perceived as a silver bullet for the larger societal problem of deficient school systems and American competitiveness. Maybe it wouldn't be mandated but it might be encouraged.

This entire discussion is making me want to go take a pill.

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