title: The moral bioenhancement of psychopaths.
abstract: We argue that the mandatory moral bioenhancement of psychopaths is justified as a prescription of social morality. Moral bioenhancement is legitimate when it is justified on the basis of the reasons of the recipients. Psychopaths expect and prefer that the agents with whom they interact do not have certain psychopathic traits. Particularly, they have reasons to require the moral bioenhancement of psychopaths with whom they must cooperate. By adopting a public reason and a Kantian argument, we conclude that we can justify to a psychopath being the recipient of mandatory moral bioenhancement because he has a reason to require the application of this prescription to other psychopaths.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rijeka, Croatia.
authors.forename: Elvio
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Baccarini
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rijeka, Croatia.
authors.forename: Luca
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Malatesti
mesh_terms: D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder; D026688:Bioethical Issues; D024803:Biomedical Enhancement / Q000941:ethics*; D026689:Ethical Analysis; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D035863:Moral Development; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D012919:Social Behavior; D012945:Social Values
keywords: Behaviour Modification; Enhancement; Moral Psychology; Philosophical Ethics; Psychiatry