If you have the option of sentencing someone to the electric chair or inducing total amnesia, which would you decide? Is total amnesia more humane? Would it truly erase all memories? These are the 36 that will swirl around the person who invents the first total amnesia inducer.
Much like formatting the hard drive of a computer, the amnesia inducer will erase all memories in the human brain. People 37 this process will have to start from ground zero, relearning how to eat, walk, talk, read, and write all over again. But it will still be portrayed as a more humane 38 to the death penalty.
Partial amnesia inducers, which erase only the past few days of someone’s memory, will have application in erasing the lasting memory of a person 39 by such things as a brutal crime, the ravages of war, or child abuse. 【題組】37 (A)arguing against (B)going through (C)holding off (D)giving up