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The Neuro-Specific Human Rights Bill

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Neuro-Specific Human Rights Bill
Rapid advancements in human neuroscience and neurotechnology open unprecedented possibilities for accessing, collecting, sharing and manipulating information from the human brain. Such applications raise important challenges to human rights principles that need to be addressed to prevent misuse or unintended negative consequences. This proposal assesses the implications of emerging neurotechnology applications in the context of the human rights framework and suggests that existing human rights are not sufficient to respond to these emerging issues. After analysing the relationship between neuroscience and human rights, we identify four new neuro-specific human rights that will be vital in the effort of protecting the human brain: the right to cognitive liberty, the right to mental privacy, the right to mental integrity, and the right to psychological continuity.
The right to cognitive liberty
The right of individuals to use emerging neurotechnologies as well the protection of individuals from the coercive and unconsented use of such technologies. The right and freedom to control one’s own consciousness and electrochemical thought processes is the necessary substrate for just about every other freedom. Cognitive liberty is necessary to all other liberties, because it is their neuro-cognitive substrate. As such, cognitive liberty resembles the notion of ‘freedom of thought’ which is usually considered the essential justification of other freedoms such as freedom of choice, freedom of speech, freedom of press, and freedom of religion. Cognitive liberty is a conceptual update of freedom of thought that takes into account the power we now have, and increasingly will have to monitor, manipulate, and alter cognitive functions. Some legal scholars such as Boire and Sententia have interpreted the right to cognitive liberty with special focus on the protection of individual freedom and self-determination from the State. For example, Sententia has claimed that “the State cannot forcibly manipulate the mental states, and implicitly the brain states of individual citizens”.
Given its conceptual complexity, cognitive liberty is multi-dimensional. Bublitz recognizes at least three “interrelated but not identical dimensions”. These are: (i) the liberty to change one’s mind or to choose whether and by which means to change one’s mind; (ii) the protection of interventions into other minds to protect mental integrity, and (iii) the ethical and legal obligation to promoting cognitive liberty. These three dimensions configure cognitive liberty as a complex right which involves the prerequisites of both negative and positive liberties: the negative liberty of making choices about one’s own cognitive domain in absence of governmental or non-governmental obstacles, barriers or prohibitions; the negative liberty of exercising one’s own right to mental integrity in absence of constraints or violations from corporations, criminal agents or the government; and finally, the positive liberty of having the possibility of acting in such a way as to take control of one’s mental life.
The right to mental privacy
The formal recognition of a right to mental privacy, which aims to protect any bit or set of brain information about an individual recorded by a neurodevice. This right would protect brainwaves not only as data but also as data generators or sources of information. In addition, it would cover not only conscious brain data but also data that is not under voluntary and conscious control. Finally, it guarantees the protection of brain information in absence of an external tool for identifying and filtering that information. Paul Wolpe has suggested that due to fears of government oppression, we should draw a bright line around the use of mind-reading technologies:
“The skull should be designated as a domain of absolute privacy. No one should be able to probe an individual’s mind against their will. We should not permit it with a court order. We should not permit it for military or national security. We should forgo the use of the technology under coercive circumstances even though using it may serve the public good”
Similarly, it has been argued by J Stanley that “non-consensual mind reading is not something we should ever engage in”. The claim is that mind-reading techniques constitute “a fundamental affront to human dignity”. Consequently, “we must not let our civilization’s privacy principles degrade so far that attempting to peer inside a person’s own head against their will ever become regarded as acceptable”. In short, the right to mental privacy is to protect people against access to their brain information and to prevent the indiscriminate leakage of brain data across the infosphere.
The right to mental integrity
This reconceptualized right should provide a specific normative protection from potential neurotechnology-enabled interventions involving the unauthorized alteration of a person’s neural computation and potentially resulting in direct harm to the victim. For an action to qualify as a threat to mental integrity, it has to: (i) involve the direct access to and/or manipulation of neural signaling (ii) be unauthorized –i.e. must occur in absence of the informed consent of the signal generator. As neurotechnology becomes part of the digital ecosystem and neural computation rapidly enters the infosphere, the mental integrity of individuals will be increasingly endangered if specific protective measures are not implemented. The forced intrusion into and alteration of a person’s neural processes pose an unprecedented threat to a person’s mental integrity.
The growing field of memory engineering will likely represent a paramount challenge to the right to mental integrity. Several techniques have been developed to engineer, boost, or selectively erase memories from a person’s mind. For example, Nabavi and colleagues used an optogenetics technique to erase and subsequently restore selected memories by applying a stimulus via optical laser that selectively strengthens or weakens synaptic connections. These findings may hold big potential for the treatment of such diseases as Alzheimer’s and PTSD. At the same time, however, the misuse of these techniques by malevolent actors may generate unprecedented opportunities for mental manipulation and brainwashing. On the long term-scenario, they could be used by surveillance and security agencies with the purpose of selectively erasing dangerous or inconvenient memories from people’s brains as portrayed in the movie Men in Black with the so-called neuralyzer. The potential motives of illicit memory alteration are various, including increasing national security or exerting control over individuals or groups.
The right to psychological continuity
The right to psychological continuity can be seen as a special neuro-focused instance of the right to identity. What the right to psychological continuity aims to prevent is the induced alteration of neural functioning. The right to psychological continuity will protect the mental substrates of personal identity from unconscious and unconsented alteration by third parties through the use of invasive or non-invasive neurotechnology.
In addition to mental privacy and mental integrity, people’s perception of their own identity may be put at risk by inadequate uses of emerging neurotechnology. Changes in brain function caused by brain stimulation may also cause unintended alterations in mental states critical to personality, and can thereby affect an individual’s personal identity. In particular, it has been observed that brain stimulation may have an impact on the psychological continuity of the person, i.e. the crucial requirement of personal identity consisting in experiencing oneself as persisting through time as the same person. Several cases have been reported in scientific literature in which deep brain stimulation (DBS) has led to behavioral changes such as increased impulsivity and aggressiveness or changes in sexual behavior. A study involving patients treated with DBS showed that more than half of them articulated a feeling of strangeness and unfamiliarity with themselves after surgery “I do not feel like myself anymore”; “I feel like a robot”. In parallel, memory engineering technologies may impact a person’s identity by selectively removing, altering, adding or replacing individual memories that are relevant to their self-recognition as persons.
However, threats to this right are more likely to happen outside clinical settings. For instance, in the context of intelligence and military agencies, it has been reported that over the last decades violations of human rights have taken place in experiments involving brain implants, drug administrations, electromagnetic shock therapy, sensory deprivation, isolation, physical, psychological, verbal and sexual abuse, hypnosis, the attempted creation of Manchurian candidates, the implantation of false memories and induction of amnesia. Most of these experiments were conducted on unwitting and helpless civilians and in the absence of any external review or representation for the experimental subjects or any meaningful follow-up. The new knowledge and technologies in the field of neuroscience clearly offer new and more efficient possibilities for carrying out unconsented personality changes. For example, Pycroft recently reported the concern that brain implants like DBS are vulnerable to attack by third parties who want to exert malicious control over the users’ brain activity. They called this risk of modification of a person’s brain activity through unauthorized use of neuro devices by third parties ‘brainjacking’.
Negative consequences of brainjacking include (i) information theft, which would result in a violation of the right to mental privacy; (ii) cessation of stimulation, draining implant batteries, inducing tissue damage, and impairment of motor function, which would result in violations of the right to mental integrity. However, some possible consequences of brainjacking such as alteration of impulse control, modification of emotions or affect, induction of pain, and modulation of the reward system could be achieved even in absence of any violation of mental privacy and integrity. In those circumstances of unauthorized modification of the cognitive-emotional-affective dimension a different type of human right violation seems to be at stake: the violation of the right to psychological continuity.
In short, the right to psychological continuity ultimately tends to preserve personal identity and the coherence of the individual’s behavior from unconsented modification by third parties. It protects the continuity across a person’s habitual thoughts, preferences, and choices by protecting the underlying neural functioning.
Conclusion
The volume and variety of neurotechnology applications is rapidly increasing inside and outside the clinical and research setting. The ubiquitous distribution of cheaper, scalable and easy-to-use neuroapplications has the potential of opening unprecedented opportunities at the brain-machine interface level and making neurotechnology intricately embedded in our everyday life. While this technological trend may generate immense advantage for society in many ways, its implications for ethics and the law remain largely unexplored. We argue that in the light of the disruptive change that neurotechnology is determining in the digital ecosystem, the normative terrain should be urgently prepared to prevent misuse or unintended negative consequences. In addition, given the fundamental character of the neurocognitive dimension, we argue that such normative response should not exclusively focus on tort law but also on foundational issues at the level of human right law.
This proposal of neuro-specific human rights in response to emerging advancements in neurotechnology is consistent with and a logical continuation of the proposal of developing genetic-specific human rights in response to advancements in genetics and genomics as set out by the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights, and the International Declaration on Human Genetic Data.
The freedom of thought, freedom from slavery, torture and inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment are regarded by international human rights law as not subject to any exceptions and, therefore, as absolute rights. Absolute rights cannot be limited for any reason. No circumstance justifies a qualification or limitation of absolute rights. Absolute rights cannot be suspended or restricted, even during a declared state of emergency. The right to cognitive liberty, the right to mental privacy, the right to mental integrity, and the right to psychological continuity should also be enacted into law as absolute rights.
All credit for the Neuro-Specific Human Rights proposal belongs to Dr. Marcello Ienca and Dr. Roberto Andorno. Excerpts from their paper have been used in an effort to enact new human rights. https://lsspjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40504-017-0050-1

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Former U.S.  President Jimmy Carter recently wrote in the New York Times, “The United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights.” In his article, Carter points out that top US officials are now openly targeting US citizens for political assassination, “disappearance,” unlimited surveillance, and other forms of gross human rights abuse. Are people prepared to call a former U.S. President a conspiracy
theorist? Or has the U.S. strayed far from its roots as a democracy where rule of law and human rights are uniformly respected?   I have taken this excerpt from the here  below linked document by Dr Daniel Lebowitz.

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I am one of those individuals who have been placed on non-consensual wirelessly enabled  unlimited surveillance and electronic harassment and psychological torture  by who I believe are agents of the United States government.    My name is Gretta Fahey, from Newbrook, Claremorris, Co. Mayo, Ireland.   I was born in and have lived all my life in Ireland, Europe and I have never visited the United States.  I have never committed an illegal act in my life.   Many of my fellow Irish men and women are also being targeted in a similar manner to me.  We have nearly all reported the matter to the Gardaí over the years but we have not been taken seriously.   We have been selected for non-consensual remote neural monitoring combined with remote neural manipulation for many and varied reasons and this system which I  and others have been non-consensually placed under is a precursor to enslavement of most of the human race by the dark new world evil cabal.   The neuro operatives who are directly responsible for my electronic harassment and psychological torture are able to place their voices inside my head by the use of directed energy weapons which are now common place throughout the world but are not been  mentioned in what is now a privately owned main stream media.   Knowledge of this wirelessly enabled electronic harassment combined with psychological torture is widespread throughout the internet.   I often list some of what the neuro operatives say to me whenever they reproduce their voices inside my head.   I do not and never have and never would accept payment for any of my writings.   My aim is to expose corruption in the world.  Here is some of what these internal voices have said to me and about me in the past few days.

"Digging the dirt on this system is now the way forward.   We need to present this system in a positive light."

"I will bludgeon you to death some day."

"Unveilling a system this extreme is not in our favour.  We will send the troops around  to Gretta Fahey's house if she doesn't shut up. "

I send an email to my aunt who lives in the United States and I mentioned Directed Energy Weapons in the email.  I then heard a  voice coming from inside my head which was heard by me to say the following  " This information will not be allowed to go to her aunt in the United States of America.  This information will be confiscated.  Does she understand that."

"That is not good enough.  You will have to try harder to exasperate her."

 "She is nothing but an old fool."

"She has an excellent train of thought."

"Increase the suffering".

 "Did she poop yet."

 "There is no television in her home which would allow us to spy on her through the digital media screen.   I don't know how I am going to explain my information."

  I was planning to go to my local town and I was thinking about it when I heard an inner voice say the following "Where is Fahey planning to go. "    "Nowhere"    This was followed by the following response  "Well, why is this stream of consciousness here."

"We would have to make Gretta be a paragon of perfection in order to justify our activities, in view of the fact that the public know so much of what we have been doing to her because of her daily writing."    A second voice was heard by me to respond as follows "We would have to bio-robotize her for that to happen."

In response to a question I put to the voices which I hear coming from inside my head I was told the following  "We can see an energy imprint of people through their flat screen televisions and through all other digital media screens.  We can not see an accurate image of them through their digital media screens.  Energy imprints of people are far more revealing that clear images of the same people.  Energy imprint visualization can inform the viewer of what the energy imprinted individual has ingested and inhaled along with what type of mood the individual is currently in."    In response to a further question by me the voice which I heard coming from inside my head was further heard by me to say as follows  "We can manipulate the human energy field of an individual by manipulating the energy which forms around the digital media screen which we are viewing in order to cause anomalies in the energy field of that individual, which then translate into physical body anomalies, such as pain or cramps or such as a myriad of other symptoms." I continued to prompt the unknown voice which I heard coming from inside my head for further information about the capabilities which they could achieve through human energy field manipulation through manipulation of human energy fields via digital media screens and the voice then went on to inform me the following "Over many years of dedicated energy manipulations, whole body paralysis can be achieved."

I continued to question the voice which I heard coming from inside my head and he revealed the following information to me "We could not see a physical picture of you at the beginning of your targeting.  However, we have now built up enough information about you to be able to see you in 3D whenever we wish.  We can now look in on you whenever we wish.  You have no mental privacy and now you have no physical privacy either.  You are heavily despised by our team due to your lack of ingenuity in attempting to stop us from invading both your mind and body."

"How come we have no mental hold on her?"   The response which I heard coming from another voice was as follows "She is a free thinker and she is very well informed."

"She is not one of our paid informants.   The response which I heard coming from another voice was as follows "  No.  She is not.  She has never received money from us and she never would accept money off us.  She styles herself as being uncorruptable which she is."

"They key component of this worldwide monitoring system is control, control, control."

"Wireless ensnarement is meant for everyone accept us and our group."

"We need this lady in our own system here so that we can examine her properly.  Why isn't this happening?"  

"Because Gretta has legal right of residence in her own family home until she dies, this is the end of the line for us."

"Nothing is being done that is illegal."    I responded to this inner voice myself as follows  " It is illegal to psychologically torture someone under both man made law and natural law.   Natural law is the only law that is fixed and immutable.  Man made laws are illusory.   We must return to the use of natural law only."

Remote Neural Monitoring  which is now in use throughout most of the world is wrongly purported to be a security system to help in dealing with terrorism.  Remote Neural Monitoring works remotely by monitoring and controlling the brains of non-consensual human beings while said  human beings are going about their everyday lives, not harming anyone.  Most individuals who are being subjected to Remote Neural Monitoring have never committed a crime in their lives but they may have complained about this oppressive control system or they may have complained about an unelected official or they may be subjected to this for any number of other reasons. 

The Remote Neural Monitoring process allows supercomputers to be used to send signals through an implanted persons nervous system in order to influence that person in many different ways.   I am being subjected to Remote Neural Monitoring combined with Remote Neural Manipulation and I wish to testify to the fact that it is an extremely invasive and extremely stressful control system to the extent that anyone who is being subjected to it would prefer to be dead.  I have read that many prisoners in the United States prison system are currently being subjected to Remote Neural Monitoring and they are suffering to such an extreme degree because of this that many of them are choosing to starve themselves to death rather than go on suffering.

Remote Neural Monitoring investigates electrical activity in humans from a distance.  All electrical activity being generated by my brain and body on a continual basis is data analysed and collated by a supercomputer.   The neuro staff who operate the supercomputer speak to me via brain to brain link or by some other means.   I am constantly engaged with their voices, which I hear coming from inside my head via a two way link .  I am forced to listen to them against my will and without my permission.  They frequently threaten my life and insult me.   They send digital signals to my body to make it act against my will such as forcing my facial muscles to move against my will occasionally.   As well as transmitting their voices inside my head they also send me moving images, odours, bodily sensations and occasional pain.    They have informed me that they gain more and more power over my body as the years of non-consensual experimentation go by.  I believe Remote Neural Monitoring is also being used to mind control whole populations because some people appear to be totally indifferent to the growing threat of bodily enslavement which can be achieved via Remote Neural Monitoring in combination with Remote Neural Manipulation.  

I often write down what the unknown Remote Neural Monitoring control staff say to me by speaking to me by wireless means.  Here below is some of what they said to me  and about me to their colleagues in the past twenty four hours  -

"She has managed to upset everyone here".

"I am seriously unnerved by your preoccupation with writing down what we say to you and about you."

"Go to mass more often".    I answered that I am not a Christian.   The internal voice then replied as follows   "Going to mass is now compulsory."    I then asked the following question    "How are you going to force people to go to mass?"    The internal voice once again replied as follows    Once they go to mass one time they will wish to go back again and again because there will be mind control there to uplift their spirits".

"These people need a firm hand".

"Is there any way we can stop her from writing".

Subvocalisation is a process whereby when we think to ourselves we silently verbalise our thoughts allowing our brain to sends neuro signals to our mouth, jaw and throat. If the mouth, jaws and throat of a human being have been implanted with a series of electrodes or other bio-sensors or nano-sensors then said neuro signals can be gathered and sent to a processor where they are translated into words.    In many non-consensual and unwilling victims of implantation these words are then being read and replied to in real time and the sound signals from the reply are being sent to a series of sensors which are implanted in the hearing centres of the human brain.  This methodology is currently in widespread use throughout the western world where it is being used by criminal gangs to create undetectable neuro slaves.   Said criminal gangs force their voices inside the heads of unwilling victims of illegal brain and body implantation and they then read the thoughts of the victim in reply.  The criminal gangs use this illegally obtained data for many reasons, some of which are insider trading, stealing of intellectual property rights and the creation of neuro slaves.

It is being claimed that human beings throughout the western world have been inhaling and ingesting nano particulates from processed food, water and chemtrail spraying of the skies over our heads for the past number of years.   It is being further claimed that these  nano particles are then being implanted from the bloodstream into the brain and body of a selection of non-consensual and unwilling human beings by wireless means and from a distance, through a process known as neuro processing.  Neuro processing is being achieved by the use of energy  by a coterie of criminal neuro staff who are unknown to the victim of nano implantation.   When the brain and body of a target of neuro processing is fully implanted with nano particles, criminal gangs then have access to a myriad of implants throughout the human brain and body.  They sometimes use these implants to transmit voice commands and possible pain signals to human beings who at that stage could be considered as partial neuro slaves.   This neuro enslavement system is in widespread use throughout the whole western world and it could be used to enslave most of the human race by a small cartel of dark occultists if we neglect to outlaw microwave transmitters and related paraphernalia.  The existence of satellites is an easily proven hoax.  World wide data is being transmitted using undersea fibre optic cables.

Subvocalisation is a process whereby when we think to ourselves we silently verbalise our thoughts allowing our brain to sends neuro signals to our mouth, jaw and throat. If the mouth, jaws and throat of a human being have been implanted with a series of electrodes or other bio-sensors or nano-sensors then said neuro signals can be gathered and sent to a processor where they are translated into words.    In many non-consensual and unwilling victims of implantation these words are then being read and replied to in real time and the sound signals from the reply are being sent to a series of sensors which are implanted in the hearing centres of the human brain.  This methodology is currently in widespread use throughout the western world where it is being used by criminal gangs to create undetectable neuro slaves.   Said criminal gangs force their voices inside the heads of unwilling victims of illegal brain and body implantation and they then read the thoughts of the victim in reply.  The criminal gangs use this illegally obtained data for many reasons, some of which are insider trading, stealing of intellectual property rights and the creation of neuro slaves.

It is being claimed that human beings throughout the western world have been inhaling and ingesting nano particulates from processed food, water and chemtrail spraying of the skies over our heads for the past number of years.   It is being further claimed that these  nano particles are then being implanted from the bloodstream into the brain and body of a selection of non-consensual and unwilling human beings by wireless means and from a distance, through a process known as neuro processing.  Neuro processing is being achieved by the use of energy  by a coterie of criminal neuro staff who are unknown to the victim of nano implantation.   When the brain and body of a target of neuro processing is fully implanted with nano particles, criminal gangs then have access to a myriad of implants throughout the human brain and body.  They sometimes use these implants to transmit voice commands and possible pain signals to human beings who at that stage could be considered as partial neuro slaves.   This neuro enslavement system is in widespread use throughout the whole western world and it could be used to enslave most of the human race by a small cartel of dark occultists if we neglect to outlaw microwave transmitters and related paraphernalia.  The existence of satellites is an easily proven hoax.  World wide data is being transmitted using undersea fibre optic cables.

There appears to be no point in targeted individuals taking a case against any European leaders to the European Court of Human Rights because all of the judiciary and lawyers and police have nano technology in their brains which is communicating with whatever smart engineered technology is on their person at any given time. Their thoughts are being heavily influenced by this process.

I am currently being subjected to remote neural monitoring. I legally own the intellectual property rights to my own thoughts and to the content of my memory bank and to all of the information currently coming from my brain and spinal cord. Likewise I own and control all of the intellectual property rights to all of the information currently being generated by my own body and to all of the information which was generated by my own body in the past. Anybody who deals in both the purchase and sale of the content of my intellectual property rights is a thief and will be dealt with by the law as a thief.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/05/the-dark-side-of-psychology-in-abuse-and-interrogation

The dark side of psychology in abuse and interrogation

The IMAP/OSF report raises disturbing questions about the role of psychologists in cruel and inhumane treatment of prisoners. Photograph: Bob Strong/Reuters

This week the Institute on Medicine as a Profession (IMAP) and the Open Society Foundations (OSF) have published the most comprehensive study on the role of psychologists in the War on Terror. At 269 pages, the full report is as detailed as it is grim, concluding that American psychologists collaborated extensively with the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, and the CIA to develop a range of interrogation methods used in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantánamo Bay.

The list of methods is horrifying: beatings, exposure to extreme cold, shackling, repeated slamming into walls, sleep deprivation, sensory deprivation, exposure to prolonged white noise and yelling, forced nakedness, exploitation of phobias, slaps to the face and abdomen, cramped confinement, prolonged stress positions (such as having hands and feet chained to the floor), forced feeding via gastrointestinal tubing, sexual and religious humiliation, forcible restraint of the head, deprivation of basic items such as sheets, blankets and mattresses (termed "comfort items"), threats to the detainee’s family, asphyxiation, and waterboarding. 

The report documents how psychologists consulted with the military under the Orwellian euphemism of "safety officers". Their official role was to work in Behavioral Science Consultation Teams to "identify vulnerabilities of detainees and collaborate with interrogators in exploiting them". Psychologists were selected for these positions based on professional training in clinical and forensic psychology. Yet while clearly valuing these qualifications, the military classified the psychologists as "combatants" rather than health practitioners, a move which enabled them to bypass normal ethical standards.

Those ethical standards themselves are unclear. The American Psychological Association (APA) – the official professional body for psychologists in the US – officially rejects torture but it also supports the role of psychologists in interrogation: "It is consistent with the APA Ethics Code for psychologists to serve in consultative roles to interrogation and information-gathering processes for national-security related purposes". The APA has yet to indicate which, if any, of the methods listed in the IMAP/OSF report would be consistent with its ethical policy.

The position of the British Psychological Society is even less clear. On the one hand the Society condemns torture yet at the same time remains silent on whether psychologists can assist with interrogation or other military objectives. As with the APA's policy, the point at which interrogation becomes abuse is left unsaid, the boundaries of unethical conduct given room to move.

The report makes a number of concrete recommendations, calling for US president Barack Obama to apply more strict prohibitions on the use of "sleep deprivation, isolation, exploitation of fear, and other interrogation methods that violate international standards". It also urges the APA to clarify its ethical policy and "repudiate the report of its Presidential Task Force…that condones the participation of psychologists in interrogation".

These are undoubtedly vital reforms, but the facts uncovered by this study raise even more fundamental questions. In the quest for national security, is there a genuine balance to be met between the ideologies of "do no harm" and "prevent harm being done"? At what point (if any) is it morally acceptable for psychologists to be deployed as weapons of war? As important as it is for the psychological profession to clarify its policies on these issues, it is also not for psychologists alone to provide the answers. That responsibility is shared by all citizens of a free society.

    

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