Lack of impulsive control, together with antisocial or immoral preferences, can lead to socially unwelcome, perhaps criminal or violent behaviors.
What if governments could utilize pharmaceutical interventions to suppress "antisocial" or otherwise "unwanted" desires, or to enhance impulse control, so as to create "better" moral decision-making? Advocates refer to such possibilities as the "moral enhancement"
Genetic make-up, childhood conditioning, socioeconomic status, environmental factors, and so on soften or undermine personal responsibility for lifestyle diseases" (Andersen and Nielsen, 2016, 495). They argue that "there are always prior deterministic or probabilistic factors that cause us to do as we do"