Should John have been honest about his amnesia?
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Re: Should John have been honest about his amnesia?
John is therefore not under compulsion to divulge such sensitive information to anyone, he would have automatically gone into protecting his self-interest state. Nobody would want to hire an amnesia patient as a worker in their company, for example, he might have acted stupid at first by hiding it but he must have felt he was handling things intelligently at the time.
I will excuse him for this because people who suffer from amnesia are not in their right frame of mind.
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This is what I had in mind as well. Amnesia needs to be diagnosed and established by an external element, not the victim of the amnesia. Having said that, it is John's business to tell people or to keep it to himself. However, if keeping silent will have some kind of direct or indirect averse impact on others, then you owe it to them to tell them what's going on. I guess the answer to this question can only be given on a case-by-case basis.Hyacinth Bella wrote: ↑01 Nov 2021, 08:18 I agree that he should have told someone, but then again, how does a person with amnesia know they're suffering from amnesia? How do they identify that they're suffering from it and how do they diagnose themselves with it? That confuses me still because a normal person suffering from amnesia would ask questions and therefore doctors would be able to help them. That's my takeaway.
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Another angle to this is, how does a man explain a memory loss when he realized that he was the brain behind a world renown building after recovering from a three and half year - coma?
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