SatanBurger · 36-40, F
Waterboarding is widely condemned as torture because it inflicts extreme physical and psychological pain by simulating the experience of drowning. This deliberate suffocation triggers a powerful, uncontrollable panic and terror, causing immediate and long-lasting trauma.
Physical Effects:
The procedure creates a powerful instinct to survive that can result in severe physical harm.
Suffocation and near-drowning:
Victims are strapped down (often upside down) and water is poured over a cloth covering their nose and mouth, making it impossible to breathe. The person gasps for air, inhales water, and feels like they are drowning.
Physiological distress:
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The struggle against restraints, involuntary breath-holding, swallowing water, and vomiting trigger severe physical reactions.
Risk of physical injury:
The intense struggling can lead to physical injuries, including broken bones.
Potential long-term damage:
Physical consequences can include lung damage (such as aspiration pneumonia), brain damage from oxygen deprivation, an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (due to soaring heart rate and blood pressure), and even death.
Psychological Effects
The mental trauma is often profound and permanent, as the victim experiences a total loss of control and imminent death.
Extreme panic and terror:
The feeling of "controlled death" is described as one of the most traumatic experiences a human can endure.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD):
Survivors often suffer from long-term psychological effects, including constant flashbacks, panic attacks, depression, anxiety, and personality changes.
Lasting phobias:
Everyday activities can become a source of panic; for instance, some survivors panic when taking a shower or becoming even slightly short of breath.
Physical Effects:
The procedure creates a powerful instinct to survive that can result in severe physical harm.
Suffocation and near-drowning:
Victims are strapped down (often upside down) and water is poured over a cloth covering their nose and mouth, making it impossible to breathe. The person gasps for air, inhales water, and feels like they are drowning.
Physiological distress:
.
The struggle against restraints, involuntary breath-holding, swallowing water, and vomiting trigger severe physical reactions.
Risk of physical injury:
The intense struggling can lead to physical injuries, including broken bones.
Potential long-term damage:
Physical consequences can include lung damage (such as aspiration pneumonia), brain damage from oxygen deprivation, an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (due to soaring heart rate and blood pressure), and even death.
Psychological Effects
The mental trauma is often profound and permanent, as the victim experiences a total loss of control and imminent death.
Extreme panic and terror:
The feeling of "controlled death" is described as one of the most traumatic experiences a human can endure.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD):
Survivors often suffer from long-term psychological effects, including constant flashbacks, panic attacks, depression, anxiety, and personality changes.
Lasting phobias:
Everyday activities can become a source of panic; for instance, some survivors panic when taking a shower or becoming even slightly short of breath.
SatanBurger · 36-40, F
@MoveAlong On an unrelated note, I think people like the thought of torturing others. We are the exact same as the terrorists who use that same logic to carry out their crimes. People don't really get that the logic that people use to carry out acts of violence is the same logic that "good" people use to torture others. From the bad guy's point of view, there is a justification for what they did. A kind of rational and they do have their own morals.
That's why I despise rationalizing that stuff like torture.
That's why I despise rationalizing that stuff like torture.
MrSmooTh · 31-35, M
You submerge the victims head underwater. When the lungs struggle for air, panic sets in. The mind goes into survival mode and will do anything to escape. Anything like say what it is they think the interrogator wants to hear. I don't recommend it's use, because there's really no way to know if someone is telling the truth. On one hand they are saying something just in hopes that you will not kill them. On the other hand, they might not care if they die and are just trying to mislead you.
AuRevoir · 36-40, M
It’s psychological.
No physical harm actually happens.
It’s essentially a triple dose of “phobia” technically a quadruple dose. Happening all at the same time.
Claustrophobia being the primary element. As you are strapped to a board and unable to move. You are forced into a state of helplessness and the fear that comes with that. You are then given a dose of aquaphobia as you fear drowning even though you’re not actually drowning. And you may even have a forth fear being attributed by the fear of strangers asking you questions.
Essentially it’s more torture of the mind and emotions and the natural realm you’re used to.
When you take a shower you are free to move your hands and head wherever you wish. You are in control. The water stops when you want it to stop. Your head is only under the water when you wish it to be.
Only an extremely submissive person would likely be able to handle waterboarding. The more freedoms a person is used to having, the more effective it is at delivering restraints that send the mi d into an uncontrollable panic.
No physical harm actually happens.
It’s essentially a triple dose of “phobia” technically a quadruple dose. Happening all at the same time.
Claustrophobia being the primary element. As you are strapped to a board and unable to move. You are forced into a state of helplessness and the fear that comes with that. You are then given a dose of aquaphobia as you fear drowning even though you’re not actually drowning. And you may even have a forth fear being attributed by the fear of strangers asking you questions.
Essentially it’s more torture of the mind and emotions and the natural realm you’re used to.
When you take a shower you are free to move your hands and head wherever you wish. You are in control. The water stops when you want it to stop. Your head is only under the water when you wish it to be.
Only an extremely submissive person would likely be able to handle waterboarding. The more freedoms a person is used to having, the more effective it is at delivering restraints that send the mi d into an uncontrollable panic.
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romell · 51-55, M
SomeMichGuy · M
@romell Isn't it more insidious...?
You create the sensation of continuously drowning by how the water flows...
You create the sensation of continuously drowning by how the water flows...
SomeMichGuy · M
@romell Interested ppl can refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding
your wit is matched only by your charm.
AverageMuslim · 26-30, M
You probably didn't notice, your mouth is always open when you take a shower.
Close your mouth and then shower, you'll know
Close your mouth and then shower, you'll know
itsnotimportant · 46-50, F
Funny that you compare showering with drowning.
Allelse · 36-40, M
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!