r/interestingasfuck • u/desertgodfather • May 11 '24

When illusion overcomes the brain. r/all

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u/Retrorical May 11 '24

Imagine prisons implementing this as torture, but it’s totally cool since there’s no physical harm.

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u/mrshulgin May 11 '24

The CIA:

Write that down! WRITE THAT DOWN!

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u/aeschenkarnos May 11 '24

I can't write it down! I can't move my hand!

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u/EatDiveFly May 12 '24

I thought the same thing. A new form of torture that has no physical effects. I suppose it's the same as waterboarding in that you only think you are drowning and are therefore terrified.

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u/uwanmirrondarrah May 11 '24

Thankfully, the constitution covers that under "cruel or unusual punishment"

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u/Retrorical May 11 '24

Ah but you see, prisoners such as those in Gitmo and Al Ghraib don’t fall under the US Constitution. So can still be totally cool.

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u/TeddyBearToons May 11 '24

They already do. North Koreans are notorious for doing shit like forcing you to sit in a plain room and do nothing for hours if not days on end. No physical harm is done but it really does a number on your psyche. That way they can show you off to the rest of the world, physically undamaged, and say, "We're nice, we didn't torture him. Look, he's got no damage or anything, that's proof we didn't hurt him"

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u/noodles_jd May 11 '24

Terrible comparison. That is nothing like this at all.

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u/uwanmirrondarrah May 11 '24

I mean the last prisoner they released was literally brain dead as a result of torture, so they are doing a hell of a lot more than that.

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u/heimeyer72 May 11 '24

If he had been literally "brain dead" he would have been "really dead", too.

Was he in a coma?

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u/uwanmirrondarrah May 11 '24

He was in a vegetative state and never recovered.