Imagine a world where a child is made to forget that painful memory when s/he stuck a finger into a candle flame.

No longer is the child afraid of fire but a number of other fears based upon association with the pain of that event also fade to obscurity.

The potential result? A person who takes reckless risks without sufficient thought to his or her safety.

That is bad enough - but I do think that an agency like the CIA will take to it as enthusiastically as the Men in Black to the Neuralizer. This could lead to a string of human rights abuses that people will never hear of... its 'forgotten'.