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Originally Posted by Phil Masters
Consider; few societies today lock people up for being smooth-talking charmers who can get other people into bed against their better judgement. Slipping someone a roofie, on the other hand, can get you a few years inside and a permanent presence on the sex offenders register.
Aerosol pheromones/"pheromones" are, I think, going to get classed as easily-dispensed roofies.
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That, it seems to me, is a jump to conclusions based on metagame classification of the trait. Because their effect seems close enough to the effect of some modern shampoo/perfume/etc. scents on some people; the difference being that instead of "provide +4 against 1% of people" or "invoke lecherousness in 1% of people", THS-era products can do so with an about 50% success rate.
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Originally Posted by Phil Masters
Conversely, if you could build an unobtrusive earpiece filter that blocked smooth doubletalk, cheap, I think a lot of people would buy one before venturing into a used car dealership. As it is, well, people just have to rely on their judgement - and people do like to think that they're hard to fool. If anti-pheromone/"pheromone" noseplugs (or whatever) are available, a lot of people will wear them on a precautionary basis - and it's easier to admit "I might well be affected by these new mind control drugs" than "I have normal human susceptibility to smooth talk", so fewer people would be prevented from taking available precautions by foolish pride.
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Some people maybe will wear them, but I think most will consider it a paranoid, antisocial/asocial kind of behaviour, similar to how people like me refuse to use Facebook.
And again, you're using the already-negative 'drugs' for the scent-things, but the already-positive 'smoothtalk' for using language to hotwire/hack a person's decisionmaking parts of the brain. It's kinda weird to read this coming from someone who was involved in the making of Madness Dossier, BTW.