I'm against the use of the drug for memory "removal."

Where would such use stop? With being raped while watching your children hacked to death? With a firefighter who rescued a child, only to have the kid die in his/her arms? With holding your dying best friend? With someone involved in a minor traffic accident? With failing a test in college? With a splinter?

It seems to me to be a more acceptable form of electroconvulsive therapy.

Yes, some people might need it or other things. With most, acceptance and therapy comes with talking, with living. NEVER forgetting, but with, oh, let's call it cleansing and acceptance.

Dispassionate art? Wilfred Owen's poems without feeling? Duncan's photos of Khe Sahn without his disgust? "Guernica" without passion?