 Ahoy-hoy and welcome to the video. I'm Dr. Sumerian, not a real doctor, and today we are going to go over a topic that struck me yesterday when I was reading some stuff about amnestics. And if I accidentally say amnestics in this video, you're just gonna have to deal with it because that's how my brain wants to pronounce it. That's neither here nor there. R amnestics, I almost did it then. R amnestics better than murder for the SCP Foundation. And that's sort of a big question. The answer seems like it would obviously be yes, and I think the answer is yes, but I don't think it's as clear cut as we want to make it out to be. See, in fiction, and this comes up a lot, you know, you've gotten the men in black, you can keep going down the list. In fiction, the idea of wiping somebody's memory who knows too much is pretty common. It's not an uncommon trope in fiction, and because of that we're sort of desensitized to it as a concept, but if you really give it some thought, if you take a person, now there are different ways this can go, but if you take a person and you completely wipe their memories, maybe their personality remains or maybe a new personality is installed because this is the kind of thing that happens in some fiction, too. Regardless, that's a different person. You have killed the previous person if you do it this way. There's no question, the human body is just a support mechanism for the brain, and the brain is just a meat computer. If you wipe the computer, it's not the same person anymore, and that's one way of doing it, and I think in that case, you're just like a quarter of a quarter of a quarter of a nano-inch, nano-inch nanometer. I bet there probably is a nano-inch, but regardless, a bit of a nanometer above killing someone. The distinction is so thin that it's basically the same thing. In the SCP Foundation, however, there seems to be a clear way that amnestics work, and that is to remove specific knowledge from a person. I think that it very much depends on what you're removing and how long it's been since that thing has influenced somebody. How does your sense of self get affected if a core memory that is incredibly important to your development as a person is removed? Moreover, beyond what almost certainly would be a development of actual mental issues, because if your personality today is shaped by your past experiences and we remove some of those experiences, and they're not small experiences, but like big previous experiences, then your sense of current personality is going to feel unreal based on what you know to be true about the world. So, you're already giving somebody what is almost certainly a mental illness by doing this, and that's assuming that you're just going back and say like you say you remove a person from somebody's memory. That's a good example of a way they could do this. Now, that's not just a good example of how somebody could do this, but that's also an example that happens on the SCP Foundation. Or, let's even look at it from this perspective, if you take a D-class, let's do the most common version of this, and the monthly termination is actually just wipe their memories and start overs that you still have them for another 30 days. Quick question there. If you keep reverting somebody back to the person that they were before they joined the SCP Foundation to their first day, aren't you just killing them over and over again? Or if you never allow them to develop new memories and become a different person, you've ended that person's experience of the world. Sure, for 30 days they get to experience the world again and then you erase it so they're back to the beginning again. What I would argue is that amnestics actually just give you the opportunity to murder somebody, I should say the murder the same person multiple times, and that's actually significantly more disturbing than just outright killing someone. But outright killing someone removes the capacity for that person to ever gain new experiences in the world. Whereas amnestics don't. The body and brain still work, unless you overdo it. But the body and brain still work, so you can still theoretically, if freed from this cycle, develop new memories. So between the two, obviously, wiping somebody's memory back to a certain point is probably the better option. But it's not that the SCP Foundation does that until they die. They'd never get an option to once somebody joins the SCP Foundation as a D-class, if you believe in monthly terminations and amnestics and all that. If you, I should say not believe in because it makes it sound like it's a faith, but if you hold that part to be canon to your version of the SCP Foundation, the SCP Foundation is killing them from the moment they start working for them, period. And I think if you amnesticize your doctors after their employment to remove all knowledge of whatever it was that they did, you've also, like, you've killed the person that they were in between. And if their personality doesn't revert to where they were before, which seems like it should be impossible, then, again, you set them up for mental illness down the road. Because there's going to be a problem of, you know, personality traits that you have developed based on your past history that is no longer in your brain. So those personality traits, you know, you talk about imposter syndrome, or you want to talk about some of the various syndromes where you think that the world isn't real. I can only imagine how bad that's going to get for some people. Not to mention the fact that amnestics as a drug probably have their own side effects that could be quite severe. You don't get the capacity to wipe memories out of somebody's brain without causing some serious issues, I imagine. Anyway, this was a topic that came into my head. And I may do a more in-depth dive on it once I have this is just my opinions and thoughts on it as like sort of an initial concept. But I am curious. I really want to look into some of the philosophy on the sense of self and the death of ego and all these other things to get a sense of like, you know, what is the right answer? I don't think there is a right answer either way. Thank you very much for watching. If you enjoyed the video, hit the subscribe button and then hit the notification bell next to that so you're notified when I upload new videos. 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