In case you were wondering, the answer is yes

[andrewducker]

Cheers very much to heron61 who passed on this piece, by a fit, healthy, right-wing American, who was sceptical about water-boarding being torture.

So he tried it on himself.

You can read his write up here.

It's fascinating, seeing how he goes through the different levels of it, thinking "Ok, I can just about cope with this. I'll try the next bit and see what it's like."

His conclusion, by the way is "To experience it and understand it and then do it to another human being is to leave the realm of sanity and humanity forever. No question in my mind."

Just to link a third time, and emphasise that if you have any question as to whether it's torture, or just a bit of intermittently useful unpleasantness for retrieving handy information then you should be clicking here.

(Edit: Hadn't realised this had come from nancylebov, who got it from theweaselking, who are both on my friends list too, just on different filters I hadn't got to yet...)

Comments

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

My god.

Thanks for the link.

[pusscat.livejournal.com]

Bloody hell. Read the piece yesterday and woke up today still thinking about it. Thanks for the link.