better living (or worse) through chemistry [free-will exists!] *[And how John Galt's Speech proves this changes nothing]

[atlashead]

do you know what the mechanism of action in an anti-manic drug is?  It's calibrated to override Supreme Efforts.
If you cut your sleep, smoke, drink, binge eat-eventually, on anti-manic drugs you will become sick; you will gain the symptoms of illness.
On the other hand, these may be things that happen to the healthy body-only made premature; so anti-depressants may overide the anti-manic defenses of the body
John Galt's Speech is actually the logical proof that this doesn't mean aLTRUISM