Very true, @dwinblood. Our experiences whether good or bad builds our character and makes us who we are today. We often feel we can do without some of the negative experiences, but after some time has gone by, we can look back and appreciate the knowledge we have gained.
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Exactly. It's the negatives in life that provide a lot of valuable lessons for our entire lives. I think that if life was only always happy, that happiness wouldn't have any meaning. It is only because we know sadness, that we know happiness.
Not only that. It also can turn our reality into a lie. If we simply erase the things we don't remember then we are selectively altering history. It could make us believe a total lie simply due to the fact a very important piece of information that put it into proper context no longer existed. We see this a lot in the news. Yet this could become the reality.
The more I think about this the more I believe that there are RARE cases where this could save someone's life and be positive. However, most of the uses for this tool I believe are overwhelmingly negative things. Kind of scary actually.
A society full of people who lose empathy due to simply erasing the things that would leave them memories to relate to the pain and sorrow of others. A society full of people who have no idea that their memory of an event in history has been completely altered by deleting important contextual memories. Scary stuff.