TIL that lemon balm is a GABA transaminase inhibitor.
A novel pharmacological mechanism of action for the anxiolytic botanical Melissa officinalis L. (lemon balm) is reported. The methanol extract was identified as a potent in vitro inhibitor of rat brain GABA transaminase (GABA-T), an enzyme target in the therapy of anxiety, epilepsy and related neurological disorders.
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GABA (γ-Aminobutyric acid) is the chief inhibitory neurotransmitter in the developmentally mature mammalian central nervous system. Its principal role is reducing neuronal excitability throughout the nervous system.
GABA transaminase enzymes catalyze the conversion of 4-aminobutanoic acid (GABA) and 2-oxoglutarate (α-ketoglutarate) into succinic semialdehyde and glutamate. Succinic semialdehyde is then oxidized into succinic acid by succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase and as such enters the citric acid cycle as a usable source of energy.[48]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GABA
So, it inhibits the enzyme that breaks down GABA, which means there’s more GABA in the brain to relax you.
To be weak is to be incapable of using force and thus, in your view, incapable of enforcing their rights. So we're right back at a situation where weak people have no rights.
I think community enforcement of everyone's rights is perfectly legitimate.
I also don't like the egoistic reduction of rights and ethics (I see rights as just another way of framing ethics/morality) to a collection of self-interested agreements. I believe that ethics is objective. But it's good enough that people believe in the egoistic conception, I suppose.
Too often people fall into the trap of conflating the two concepts in the OP, leading either to people rejecting the concept of strength as "fascism" (left mistake) or actually supporting fascism or something like it (right mistake).
https://codeberg.org/ffffff_rabbit/tickle
Twitter/fedi like app using Veilid
We need to get rid of the latter without sacrificing the former.