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> Of these, he was saying that the most important is the last. If you have no memory of the pain, in some sense it didn't really happen. That strikes me as a v
by bscphil 4y ago
> Of these, he was saying that the most important is the last. If you have no memory of the pain, in some sense it didn't really happen.
That strikes me as a very strange thing to think. When I am dead, I will have no memory of anything. I should not conclude on this basis that any pain I have during my lifetime "didn't really happen", or doesn't matter. On the contrary, it seems like the only thing that could matter is the pain I actually do feel, for as long as I feel it. Of course, given the choice, it would probably be preferable to not have to remember the pain later, but I wouldn't call the gap between the two an enormous one.
- antognini 4y agoI think that it is partly because the drugs generally have an amnesiac effect at lower doses, so if you don't give enough of the drug to cause amnesia, there will almost certainly be pain, too. But maybe there's a more cynical interpretation that it it "didn't happen" in a liability sense. If the patient has no memory of the pain then they have no reason to sue you for messing up the dosage. Incidentally I recently watched through Severance and I can't help but see the parallels to the show.