Well, even from a strict consequentialist position, it involves a century’s worth of opportunity costs, which is no small thing. Also, every step of the way until the very end, it involves a non-zero chance of not being able to fully reverse the effects, unless you want to invoke an unrealizable condition like knowing for sure that you’ll be able to apply memory reversal when the time comes.
Well, even from a strict consequentialist position, it involves a century’s worth of opportunity costs, which is no small thing. Also, every step of the way until the very end, it involves a non-zero chance of not being able to fully reverse the effects, unless you want to invoke an unrealizable condition like knowing for sure that you’ll be able to apply memory reversal when the time comes.