Quote Originally Posted by Loggos View Post
The way I understood it the person is just removed from your memory completely. (snip)

(Also, this is another point that I find quite unsettling. Imagine you have a close friend, their parent dies, and you just don't remember your friend's parent all of a sudden. You know this person but where they come from and how they grew up is (partially) purged from your mind. And if you are a close friend then their growing up was most likely also a part of your growing up since you spent time with them in your childhood. So in some way parts of your own childhood (even if it's just tangential memories) would also be gone. Such as spending time at your child friend's house but in your memory there is absolutely no presence of their parent in that house.)

I agree completely. That's why originally I didn't accept the "we only remove memory of that one person" explanation . Because 10 seconds of logical thinking finds gaping holes in that. That's why I suspected a second layer to the memory manipulation.. But there was none.

This whole idea should have unsettled me. But it didn't because I couldn't look beyond the horrendous writing of the entire premise.