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Subscript Hide description If a drug were perfected that could cause selective forgetting of memories, would you support its use for victims of rape, assault, disaster, or a horrifying accident? Selective forgetting Aside from the moral implication of such a drug being misused or falling onto wrong hands the drug could have a use but I could support it. Through the brain has some ways of forgetting such things they usually become flashbulb type memories that are so deeply ingrained they can cause PTSD and other psychological issues. The question one has to ask is, \"Is the information attained from the event, although traumatizing, useful in avoiding the situation again.\" In some cases that might be was some might be no. I don\'t think I personally would ever use it because of the such information but say just because that is my opinion no.

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Yes, if a drug were perfected that could cause selective forgetting of memories (therapeutic forgetting), I would support its use for victims of rape, assault, disaster or a horrifying accident because victims susceptible to posttraumatic stress disorder (“PTSD”) may have persistent invasive, painful memories. Therefore, I would prefer to support to prescribe FDA-approved memory-dampening   drugs. However, there are moral and ethical concerns with these medications because memory-dampening drugs may induce sometimes, complete memory dampening in the victim. On the other hand, traumatic events, rape &accidents may further associated with legal proceedings, in which, memory of the victim is higher preferable. Therefore, there are some legal implications about the use of this memory- dampening.

Post- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder often results in warfare, rape accident collisions result in excess stress on the memory responses triggered in the hippocampus as result anterogrdate amnesia. Therefore, anti-PTSD drugs such as adrenergic blockers are going to act on the hippocampus nonselectively to reduce emotional stress effects on memory levels.