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 Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:19 pm
In the works and being so called "perfected", there is a drug that could supposively erase one's memories.
Of everything, it can't be helped.
Can people ethically allow this to happen?
Pros: People who have horrid experiences that seem to ruin their lives can be free of that memory, maybe memories.
Cons: Abuse. Drugs are abused - we can't get away from that this day and age because people always want a quick fix to their problems. Can people allow it to be distributed and not fear others to use it for evil?
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Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:30 pm
A nice idea, but only if you could selectively erase your memories. I'd rather not erase the good parts of my life. As a matter a fact, I wouldn't want to erase anything. My experiences make me who I am, they have made me tougher, stronger, and wiser.
So, I'm against it. It might be nice for other people, but personally I wouldn't use it. When you have a horrid experience, it is going to effect your life wether or not you remember it. So you mind as well remember who/what/why you're where your at.
Now a truth serum on the other hand....
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Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:07 pm
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Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:54 pm
I'd never use it, at least not now, mainly for the fact that it was just recently developed, which as we all know means it's going to have some problems that goes with it. I don't like the idea of something erasing memories anyway, because what if it erases the wrong memory and what if somebody brings up the bad memory again?
Plus it'd have to be highly regulated because a bunch of people would be trying to forget a cheating boyfriend or slightly embarrassing moment or could try to forget something criminal to fool lie detection software (extreme case, I know) at any rate, it should only be used for what one considers an extremely traumatic moment that interferes with a person's day-to-day life by a psychologist.
As for me, I don't think I'd use it unless I survived being held hostage and raped and beaten everyday by some deranged killer.
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Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:49 pm
Truth serum? We sorta have those already, even if they're only partially effective. As for a memory erasing drug...I have alcohol if I need that. I don't recommend it, but there are quite a few nights of my life I have no recollection of thanks to it. And if I was drinking that much, probably a good thing too.
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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:34 am
Now this just reminds me of the film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". Hurtful memories were erased, but they missed some of the memories that came along with them. Would you have any control over what would be erased? Surely it's some kind of brain damaging effect. Doesn't sound healthy at all.
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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:00 am
I agree with Marsh there! One thing for sure is you can't control it. You'll never know what the memories you had removed. It's random, if someone like the lady notices her husband is cheating on her. And the husband knows it, he buys it and secretly puts in in her drink. Then she took a drink and then she couldn't remember a thing. But if the product is only a partial effect, theres a either 50% 25% or any other random chances that she either remembers it or not. You'll never know what you lost.
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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 9:01 am
A show's first season [This American Life] on showtime turned me onto this topic, and a couple months after the first season was over and now they're working on the second - I saw Yahoo! had an article on a drug that did the same thing, memory erasing. Warnings: TV 14 because of strong language, adult content
Episode 6, No Memory [a.k.a. Pandora's Box] (clip)
http://www.sho.com/site/thisamericanlife/home.do
If you ever get the chance, and are a little bit older, I suggest watching the new season.Now, I can see where you all are coming from. If you didn't have any trauma, don't take the drug - it would be absolutely pointless. But the makers are trying to help the people who can't stand knowing a fact and need it out of their lives. I do remember, after the clip, the scientist read a letter and it was heart breaking. This one person wanted to sign up to test it s/he was in so much pain. But then I think about the "date rape" drug, I think it has some of the same properties because people wake up not knowing where they are - but still know their name, they were just out for some hours. This is why I never missed this show, it is truly American life.
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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 9:17 am
It think there are to many ways that this drug could be used wrongly and that those who truely have tramitic experiences need to remember them so that they don't happen again and you become wiser. Wisdom comes with age, but if people keep erasing things then they're gaining no knowledge, and therefore are only getting less wise. There is no telling what it would erase, instead of erasing a rape it could erase the users 4 years of college or everybody they know. You can't control how a drug effects you. And there would deffinately be several side effects, possibly including the ability to have the users have permanent brain damage. A bad experience is not worth that. Bad experiences heal over time, lots and lots of time, and nothing is going to change that. You can't just erase their effects, so why erase them. I mean you can erase the memory of a rape, but she'll still have that baby.
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:22 am
For a minute I wasn't quite sure, but after I read marsh's post, I dedided BAD! I'd rather live and know that I made a mistake or something painful happened than live and forget everything about my past.
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:07 am
Well, we have one point of agreement.
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:27 am
a drug like that would be a easy way for kids to join cults and terrorist groups and stuuf like that
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:55 pm
A memory erasing drug eh? Well I imagine that it would be pretty awesome if you could erase specific parts of your memory that you no longer wanted there, however I have a bad feeling that this kind of drug would wipe everything, including perhaps all motor, language, and cognitive skills. It would be like going back to being a baby again and you'd have to relearn everything. Something like that could really mess with the brain and not just the memory part.
I really don't know what to say about this. I think if a person really wants to wipe their memory and start over again (re-learn everything like some coma victims) then they should be allowed to do it, but I would expect them to have the funds first to pay the people that will have to re-teach them everything and care for them.
If the drug was able to erase only certain parts of memory at will, like they get to choose what they don't want to remember, ex: a memory of being raped/abused/torture/maybe an old boyfriend/girlfriend then ok...but it would have to be monitored and regulated.
I can imagine a few ways this drug could be abused. An example would be a murderer. He could kill someone and then take the drug to wipe his memory of the murder. If he was questioned and given a lie detector test he would pass with flying colors because he wouldn't remember doing anything bad. Kind of weird...
I dunno. Something like this is extremely controversial and can be abused in many ways but also used for good too.
EDIT: You know what would be better? A memory ENHANCING drug. Take it to remember where you put your keys/glasses/other things you may have lost. Take it to remember your childhood or to cure alzheimer's!~ xD Meh...I'm being imaginitive...
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 12:45 am
yes...i recall many times i wish to forget....the day that dog almost ripped my ear off, the day i broke my arm on the stairs, i would love to forget that. PRO MEMORY ERASING
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 2:08 am
That sounds ridiculous......it's not like the drug can find selected memories and just erase them.....as modern as todays society seems.....technology isn't that advanced.....
Whatever happened to the old "Learning from our mistakes" shtick???? The majority of bad memories that people have experienced were caused because of their own choices and what not. We can all learn from the past...so why in Gid's name would people want to erase parts of it....
Now I don't know how exactly this quote went....but it really stood out to me....
"The reason why bad days happen is so that the good ones seem all the more better."
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