Comment by mdp2021

So, it seems you are saying that there exist products that, giving "pleasure upon command", make people akin to Damasio's rats - they would constantly go to the pleasure trigger.

But people are not rats: they are or can be made aware that crude pleasure is a negligible factor. Duties and other values count much more.

The dopaminergic system is inferior to judgement.

If there are issue in managing the dopaminergic system, the issue is cultural - and has to be treated in that framework.

It's like with the cognitive disaster in many medical doctors, that seem to equate "quality of life" with "pleasure" (in their own twisted ignorant subdevelopment): health itself has an extremely high value, crude veneers like said pleasure have not or can be plain countervalues.