Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25555436-20150726193923/@comment-25555436-20150727221201

80.192.105.94 wrote: So you intend to condition them to expect pain if they're scared? ...Okay, read the whole description up there again, it's clear you didn't read it right. Pain is 100% optional. Hell, you may well give someone pleasure instead. You can't fight fear with pain, that would make the whole Nerve Stapling absolutely useless. No, you fight it with other sensations.

The rest of your post was more reasonable however, thankfully enough. Let me answer a few things:

1-Technically yes, make them happy if they get scared so they are no longer feeling fear but happyness, overwritting a negative emotion with a positive one. Not "condition" them, that would require a different procedure. Technically it doesn't remove the fear, it just changes it into something that isn't fear.

2-I know of some if not at least most of the long-term consequences. If the government does a shit job at being quiet about this I can see increasing paranoia with people desperate for hiding their fear, fearing that they would get Smilies Painted On Their Face.

However, if the government is quiet about it, and the population doesn't know, it can reduce or even null the long-term problems. Although some psychological damage could be possible anyway. You would only get paranoid about it if you know about it or think too much about it. If you don't, you have "nothing to fear", as far as you know.