On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:02:00PM +0000, Robert J. Chassell wrote:
> From what I have heard, US interrogators are contemptuous of old > fashioned torture since almost everyone who knows anything will die > first.
Really? I have heard many people claim that "everybody talks" when tortured. In the movies, the tortures that are applied seem so tame and unimaginative.
Possibly because there are limits on what can be shown in even R-rated movies, and with very few exceptions an NC-17 rating is economically disastrous.
Perhaps I have an unusually sadistic imagination, but I can imagine tortures that I don't think anyone could possibly endure without talking.
And could the movie audience endure them without barfing and walking out?
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--Ronn! :)
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I never dreamed that I would see the last.
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