It might be safer if the fear could be 'erased' without erasing the memory itself. Or even better - if it were possible to reduce the overgeneralization of fea

It might be safer if the fear could be 'erased' without erasing the memory itself. Or even better - if it were possible to reduce the overgeneralization of fear associated with the memory to present non-threatening situations. Removing memories themselves seems like a dangerous way to deal with fear, and an easily misused technology. Think governments protecting secrets etc.