09-20-2007, 07:42 PM
As the definition FF posted so long ago clearly demonstrates, being incarcerated as we know it is not tortuous. It is in many places around the world, though, since they still use corporal punishment on prisoners.
Originally I thought that torturing somebody for information wouldn't work because they'd still be able to lie, and they're very likely to tell the interrogator what they want to hear (namely, they confess to something they didn't do), which means the end result is no better than an educated guess. Well, as it turns out, I was wrong to think that. It does work, and extremely well: You just have to go farther than any of us would ever have thought.
Effective torture is not what you see in movies, or on TV (esp. on 24), it is a long-term method. You won't be coerced into answering with the threat or infliction of pain over a couple days or a week. Instead of coercion, the goal is a trusting toddler who will provide any information asked of them willingly, and that takes from months to years. Here's the package itinerary: During your stay you will be tortured multiple times every 24 hours, deprived of sleep, confined to small spaces or contorted positions, forbidden from speaking or making noises, deprived of sensation and movement; or in other words, kept in a perpetual state of duress and shock until enough brain damage has been caused to make you mentally regress to early childhood. That's right: Months of non-stop assault on your personality, your identity, and even your own goddamned sanity for the express purpose of breaking down your physical ability to resist.
Anybody who still feels that such a horrific act is justified under any circumstance needs to come clean as the proud sociopaths that they are.
Originally I thought that torturing somebody for information wouldn't work because they'd still be able to lie, and they're very likely to tell the interrogator what they want to hear (namely, they confess to something they didn't do), which means the end result is no better than an educated guess. Well, as it turns out, I was wrong to think that. It does work, and extremely well: You just have to go farther than any of us would ever have thought.
Effective torture is not what you see in movies, or on TV (esp. on 24), it is a long-term method. You won't be coerced into answering with the threat or infliction of pain over a couple days or a week. Instead of coercion, the goal is a trusting toddler who will provide any information asked of them willingly, and that takes from months to years. Here's the package itinerary: During your stay you will be tortured multiple times every 24 hours, deprived of sleep, confined to small spaces or contorted positions, forbidden from speaking or making noises, deprived of sensation and movement; or in other words, kept in a perpetual state of duress and shock until enough brain damage has been caused to make you mentally regress to early childhood. That's right: Months of non-stop assault on your personality, your identity, and even your own goddamned sanity for the express purpose of breaking down your physical ability to resist.
Anybody who still feels that such a horrific act is justified under any circumstance needs to come clean as the proud sociopaths that they are.