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starslayer · 04-05-2013, 07:34 PM

Yea, I have to agree, the more 'PC' versions of torture like waterboarding or tazing will be no more effective then simply wailing on them with a baseball bat, or hooking them up to a car battery, or any of the extremely inventive measures invented in the middle ages. The only real change is that the torturer is not going to need either the low empathy disadvantage or make several rolls to avoid getting PTSD from having done that to a person.

IE- it's gentler on the torturer, not the victim.

Similarly with using threats to loved ones as a form of torture- if you are putting them in eminent distress and emotional or physical agony, your torturing them, from there perspective no different then the dental tools or the rack; just easier to stomach on the side of the torturer. If you fail to put them in eminent distress and emotional/physical agony then your making threats.

04-05-2013, 07:34 PM	#21
starslayer Join Date: Dec 2006	Re: How to manage water torture? Yea, I have to agree, the more 'PC' versions of torture like waterboarding or tazing will be no more effective then simply wailing on them with a baseball bat, or hooking them up to a car battery, or any of the extremely inventive measures invented in the middle ages. The only real change is that the torturer is not going to need either the low empathy disadvantage or make several rolls to avoid getting PTSD from having done that to a person. IE- it's gentler on the torturer, not the victim. Similarly with using threats to loved ones as a form of torture- if you are putting them in eminent distress and emotional or physical agony, your torturing them, from there perspective no different then the dental tools or the rack; just easier to stomach on the side of the torturer. If you fail to put them in eminent distress and emotional/physical agony then your making threats.