Scientists find a way to remove bad memories and fear
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Posted on: 2010-11-01 14:21 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
Well this has the potential to be one of those transformative innovations that has the potential to be both very beneficial and very harmful to society at the same time. Kind of like the automobile - it has offered unparalleled travel freedom for millions but it has also probably killed millions since it was invented.
Hopefully this kind of thing will prove to be beneficial enough to society to overcome the downsides.
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True, it has potential for good and bad. The potential for use as a brainwashing drug needs to be considered. It's not a question of if it will be used like this, of course it will. All medicine has a misuse facto to consider. But if this is a cure for PTSD, then I'm all for it. Plus the phobia-be-gone aspect of it appeals to me a lot. Got a couple of nasty ones that I'd really like to see vanish in a puff of logic.|
Originally Posted by Lothic
Well this has the potential to be one of those transformative innovations that has the potential to be both very beneficial and very harmful to society at the same time. Kind of like the automobile - it has offered unparalleled travel freedom for millions but it has also probably killed millions since it was invented.
Hopefully this kind of thing will prove to be beneficial enough to society to overcome the downsides. |
It's an interesting invention, to say the least, and I can't help but wonder what's next. A cure for stupid? Unlikely, but useful, I'd think.
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Seems like a good idea in my book. Have to thin the herd somehow and letting people get on with it themselves by hurling themselves off a cliff in a dustbin or whatever is as good a way as any.
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Originally Posted by Night-Hawk07
Yes, let's remove possibly the number one thing that stops a lot of people (though not all obviously) from doing a lot of very stupid things.....
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As John Locke (the Lost character, not the actual philosopher) once said: "I needed that pain to get where I am now."
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Originally Posted by Nericus
From a philosophical standpoint, some may think that all memories are important and should be preserved regardless of their traumatic nature as "Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it".
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Originally Posted by BrandX
Well this is all traumatic memory. Not all memories. However, I would think you could just as easily get the fear back with a new traumatic experience.
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How you get repeat customers. People who use pills to cope with everything in life. As Calisto on Xena said, "I like to live life in it's full agonizing glory." Otherwise just seems you'd end up dependent on emotional painkillers.
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Anyone smell the Eugenics Wars coming? Maybe about 20-30 years late, but still with all this talk about using science and medicine to genetically "enhance" humanity lately....
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Well this is all traumatic memory. Not all memories. However, I would think you could just as easily get the fear back with a new traumatic experience.
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