A future society classifies love (amor deliria nervosa) as a disease and mandates a surgical cure at age 18, creating a passionless population that trades emotional risk for social stability.
Models pharmaceutical mood management, the medicalization of normal emotions, and the trade-off between emotional safety and human experience. Relevant to SSRIs, 'chemical castration,' and emotional regulation debates.
Domains: Medicine and Human EnhancementSocial Engineering and PsychologyEthics and Philosophy of Technology
Scenario Types: Warning / Self-preventing prophecyCautionary tale
Outcomes: Dystopian
Tags: love-as-diseaseemotional-suppressionmedicalizationpassionless-society