TY - JOUR T1 - The moral bioenhancement of psychopaths JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 697 LP - 701 DO - 10.1136/medethics-2016-103537 VL - 43 IS - 10 AU - Elvio Baccarini AU - Luca Malatesti Y1 - 2017/10/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/43/10/697.abstract N2 - 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. ER -