Poison Ivy

Log 3

All remaining emotions. Age 13, 2019

Prescription: Total sterility and emotionless behavior, steady stream of news.

Notes: if I had done this earlier it probably would have hindered my development, but I think I did it at the right age.

"Today, my teacher asked us to look up statistics on 3 things. Since I have always wanted to know what to look out for, I chose crime in different parts of America, highest and lowest cost of living in different areas, and causes of death in America.

I looked up the statistics, and saw the death counts.

Intentional self harm is caused by depression, which wouldn't happen in an emotionless society. A stroke is caused by extreme, chronic stress. Accidents are caused at least in part by irresponsible people, with drunk driving, and nighttime pedestrians in all black. Murder is caused by people who didn't get mental help, which is due to their emotions. Anger issues would be cured because people don't have anger anymore. So would bipolar disorder, if we could find some way to turn off those emotions. Plus, there is so much we could get done. Let's say instead of putting in more time at the lab, a scientist who's trying to cure cancer is at home, watching a movie. What if in that time, he might've seen something at work that would give him a breakthrough on how to cure cancer? If he had known that he wouldn't enjoy the movie because he had no emotions, he wouldn't have watched it. That cure alone would stop 599,274 deaths in America per year, and many more across the globe. If we shut off our emotions, we can progress faster by not wasting time with leisure and leaving a better world for our descendants. And obviously, we would never do this to kids, it would stunt their growth. We would let them feel, and show them the upsides and downsides of emotion and let them choose whether or not to numb themselves at the age of 13. Parents would be required to turn love back on to properly raise their kids. At some point, humanity would turn back to emotion, and wouldn't need to be sterile anymore. When that day came, the first human to truly feel everything would awaken in a wonderful world, and humanity would have the chance to enjoy it, in a world where emotion is no longer a liability, and the only cause of death is cellular decay, or old age. Maybe even a world in which earth isn't the only inhabitable planet.

And you may think that a humanity full of sociopaths is a bad idea. And in a way it is, but what if we created a society in which there were much worse consequences for everything. Whether or not you feel bad for something, there's still consequences for it, which will persuade our logical society not to do things that would once have been stopped by emotion.

So in order to help my fellow Americans, I've decided to shut off every single emotion at my disposal. I believe this will help me do better in school, waste less of my time, and may save my life someday."