You find out that this drug forms a pathological addiction cycle with many people with disordered, impulsive behavior -- the natural system of "regret" we have that keeps us from acting in hot blood on violent urges can be short-circuited with this drug
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If there were a drug that actually worked like a perfect mindwipe we'd probably immediately ban it If it has an "in-between" effect, it becomes much less clear -- and a lot of us find that "in-between" dampening of cognitive function desirable ("drinking to forget" etc)
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The whole conversation is a big philosophical can of worms, probably bigger than we can really grapple with, and even though I sound like a temperance advocate in these tweets I'm really not Something like the "right to forget" should surely exist, in tension with other rights
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Taking one of my maintenance medications for almost two years meant that I was functionally blacked out for a couple hours a night; every now and then I try to find a “this says things about how people think about…” use for the experience but it mostly just floors me too much to
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