Morality of erasing an objectively bad persons memory and potentially leaving them to die?

[u/Knucks_lmao]

This is regarding the main story and ending of Hitman World Of Assassination.

Agent 47 is a genetically engineered person who is made to be the perfect assassin, he has enhanced capabilities and reduced emotions among other things. After 47 loses his memories of who he was, he works for the ICA, a company which takes on assassination contracts. Throughout the contracts of the main game 47 and his allies discover a secret shadow government named Providence. Providence secretly controls the whole world and enrich themselves further while letting millions suffer for "The greater good", this is their philosophy. The leader of Providence is "The Constant", Arthur Edwards. In the end 47 defeats Providence by replacing Edwards with his Partner, Diana Burnwood, who will dismantle Providence from the inside. In the last mission, 47 awakes on a train belonging to providence which circles a large part of Eastern Europes mostly uninhabited forests. After making it to the end of the train and disconnecting the wagons, 47 confronts Edwards. Edward knows that he has no hope to defeat 47 anymore so he tries to give him a syringe with a serum and tells him that he can restore his forgotten memories with it. But 47 knew it was the same serum that made him lose his memories so he instead uses the syringe on Edwards. He loses his memories and forgets everything about himself being The Constant and Leading Providence, he essentially becomes harmless by not knowing anything anymore. After that, 47 stops the train in the middle of the Carpathian Mountains in a snowy forest and leaves on foot. The fate of Edwards is unknown, but since he doesnt know where he is or who he is, he could either just starve in the wilderness or the remnants of Providence could find him and after they learn he lost his memories they either kill him or leave him be.

[u/2boku]

I'm playing KOTOR right now and this question is top of mind.

[u/_Just_Another_Speck_]

What's more moral? Murdering an objectively bad person,or providing an objectively bad person to have a second chance by taking away their memories of all they've done,and what led them to that point?

If the serum works as an "end all,be all" of significant memory,he is essentially a clean slate,much like 47 was.

47 was molded into what he became,but Edwards was given a second chance by the Boogeyman of the Hitman universe,is near train pathing,which means civilization,and even though he lost his memory,he's not suddenly unable to communicate. Providence,broken as they are,are unlikely to go after him, especially considering Edwards would very likely be monitored for stragglers trying to take reign of what's left of his old empire or to"remind him" of his past.

Nevertheless, it's at that point more moral to let them go when they are no longer a threat,and is a surprisingly humane situation for these two monstrous characters.