memory pills to forget

[infernocpf]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/2 2/60minutes/main2205629.shtml

"there were something you could take after experiencing a painful or traumatic event that would permanently weaken your memory of what had just happened, would you take it? As correspondent Lesley Stahl first reported last fall, it's an idea that may not be so far off, and that has some critics alarmed, and some trauma victims filled with hope."

what do you think newgrounds

forgeting memories using a pill

good or bad
please discuss im curious on your opinions

[Lost-Chances]

God, how depressing. A loss of memory isn't going to help, really.

[bgraybr]

That's the worse idea I've ever heard.

[SpikeAlpha]

This is one of those moral moments that can't be determained by wheather or not a person has a crappy personality. Personally I think its running away from yourself instead of the moment, but I can't say much for others.

[MEPHILIS1337]

A LOT of things can go wrong with that.

[ChaDMcBaDD]

say a chick just got raped.

well this pill will be included in their rape kit lol.

[Yinyangpenguin]

At 3/7/09 09:54 PM, ChaDMcBaDD wrote: say a chick just got raped.

well this pill will be included in their rape kit lol.

Yea I was just about to say that.

[SgtButts]

Oh cool sounds like ultra-xanax.

Remember kids, Xanax is stupid, and if you eat it, you will become just as stupid!

[Wrathlust]

I'll take the blue pill.

[KrevZabijak]

At 3/7/09 10:00 PM, SgtButts wrote: Oh cool sounds like ultra-xanax.

Remember kids, Xanax is stupid, and if you eat it, you will become just as stupid!

Xanax (alprazolam) is a benzodiazepene. It doesn't fucking cause memory loss. I know, I take 2mg.

I'm glad I've forgotten a lot of shit, but it has been by focus and will.... the more I forget, the more it helps my PTSD resolve itself.

[thekingofmadness]

At 3/7/09 09:13 PM, bgraybr wrote: That's the worse idea I've ever heard.

I think so to. I mean eventually you are going to remember everything again right?

[Trooper7]

But what if you forgot to take the memory pills to forget....

[KrevZabijak]

At 3/7/09 10:07 PM, Trooper7 wrote: But what if you forgot to take the memory pills to forget....

Then homeostasis has been reached? No negative memories to spur on taking memory-loss pills.
Kind of obvious eh?

[SgtButts]

At 3/7/09 10:04 PM, KrevZabijak wrote: Xanax (alprazolam) is a benzodiazepene. It doesn't fucking cause memory loss. I know, I take 2mg.

I'm glad I've forgotten a lot of shit, but it has been by focus and will.... the more I forget, the more it helps my PTSD resolve itself.

Tell that to this kid I know who eats like 7 of them a day. He can't even remember what he was talking about 5 minutes into the conversation. I know you don't forget the past, but you forget when you were on it.

I've not done it before, so I can't say from firsthand experience. I'd rather not be able to not recall how much of a dumbass I made of myself last night.

[BenwaHakubi]

Just nut up and deal.

Xanax relaxes you. That is all. I had a shitty memory before I was prescribed xanax.

[phsychopath]

Can you say "Alzheimer's Disease"?

[Lagerkapo]

That could legitimately be the worst idea I've EVER heard.

[Biscuit-head]

You'll be depressed, you just can't remember why.

suicide follows.

[wismty]

This reminds me of "The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" movie.

[Lost-Chances]

At 3/9/09 03:40 AM, wismty wrote: This reminds me of "The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" movie.

Didn't it end well with Jim Carey blowing up the sun with his girlfriend there-fore leading to Jim Carey's fiancé with his kids watching as the sun suddenly gets brighter? Oh, what a shame that mutant guy who banged his girlfriend got on board from the old space-ship.

[Earfetish]

if doctors can make a drug and humans can take the drug, both parties should be allowed to.

Fuck there are a few memories I'd rather I didn't have. I can think of one in particular. I'm sure a lot of people can. Would it harm me so much to have it theoretically erased from my conciousness? I think it'd make me a happier, better person.

[AlkaSeltzer]

If this kind of thing got it to the hands of the wrong kind of people...

I just think that immorality outweighs this pill's good benefits.

[NEVR]

At 3/9/09 05:05 AM, Earfetish wrote: Fuck there are a few memories I'd rather I didn't have. I can think of one in particular. I'm sure a lot of people can. Would it harm me so much to have it theoretically erased from my conciousness? I think it'd make me a happier, better person.

This borders onto the argument that all your memories, good and bad, make you into the person you are. Perhaps erasing one particularly potent memory would change you not for the better, but for worse... there's no way of knowing until it's essentially too late.

Personally, I have some pretty painful memories from my life, but I wouldn't want any of them erased. It seems logical that without those memories, I wouldn't be the person I am today... and I've definitely become a stronger person by going through some difficult times. If I forgot about that through use of some anti-memory drug, I don't know who I'd be. Probably someone very naive.

[Podburrys]

I would consider it. I have traumatic memories I don't want, and if I never knew of them or that I had had them, I could be happier I think.

[Serbian-terrorist]

No, I like to learn from my mistakes.

[KartoTolmex]

Not doing this to be an ass, but in here it's been discussed for a while.

[LordZeebmork]

these will be used by the government to make their victims forget about the things they do

fbi wants to torture someone? no problem! just slip them a pill after it's over!!

[yurgenburgen]

That can't be good. The pills might weaken the person's memory of a trauamatic event, but what if the event is still deep in their subconscious and one day it comes out screaming when they're reminded of it? I foresee all kinds of mental problems.

[coolpick]

probly kills your brain... i would rather drink whisky...

[JackPhantasm]

Ears, drugs that you take have been in our culture for centuries, they are tested and true.

This isn't, never will be, it's made for fucking money.

IT WILL FUCK YOUR BRAIN.

Don't be stupid.