Today we still do lobotomies because they actually work!! We just don't do the unprecise icepick method. But lobotomies are still done in the USA today.
No we don't. No, they don't.
There are very few accepted techniques for dealing with psychological illness that involve surgery, the mainstream accepted ones are some forms of cingulotomies, capsulotomies and stereotactic amygdalotomies, (not accounting for DBS and similar techniques because they are an entirely different beast). They still remain controversial, mainly due to not being reversible unlike DBS among other factors, and they still are used as a last resort to very specific treatment resistant forms of mental disorders where the alternative is the patient being completely non-functional and an-heroing.
This is completely aside the fact of troons being deserving a lobotomy, in which case the answer would be a resounding yes.
I’ll be cynical. I don’t think it was a realisation that lobotomies did terrible harm that stopped it. We stopped doing them when we invented Chlorpromazine in the fifties and started using it and other similar drugs more widely. Why use surgery when you can chemically cosh someone into submission? Much easier.
They’re still a dribbling retard but they’re easy enough to control.
While I don't disagree it's also about the levels of, to put it in a very silly term, "take backies" you can do with it.
You can remove the pills from the tard and (mostly, depends on which generation we're talking about) have them back to how they were, you also have the advantage of adjusting dosage, delivery methods and what type of tard pill you administer to have something tailor made to the specific needs of said tard. Lobotomies are final, they aren't reversible by any degree.
To add to the cynicism however, there's also the fact that pills for life bring in more money than a single procedure, but I believe everyone in this thread is very familiar with that one, it is the "take horse piss pills for life" thread after all.
Homebrew injections... Sounds like a good way to get some sort of horrific systemic bacterial infection
IIRC and don't quote me on this, but I half remember one of these troons saying that boiling the vials was good enough, no need for "expensive" equipment like an autoclave. There were also pictures around of a vial of horse piss concentrate with a hair in it.
So yes, precisely what you said.