From: Alex Ramonsky (alex@ramonsky.com)
Date: Tue Jun 18 2002 - 03:12:48 MDT
spike66 wrote:
> Alex Ramonsky wrote:
>
>> ... The worst thing about being tortured is not physical pain (this
>> may sound nuts) it's the emotional trauma of having to accept that a
>> member of your own species can do this to you (and here's the real
>> system-crasher) that they appear to be enjoying it. Someone derives
>> pleasure from your suffering, or sees it as a good thing that you
>> will die...
>
>
> Way disagree. I have known since the early elementary school
> years that there are members of my species that enjoy torture
> and would like to kill me . The worst thing about torture is
> the pain and the inability to rid this species of at least one
> highly undesirable member by slaying the bastard. spike
>
...(Thinks...'is this a conversation I should be having'?)...I think
there's a psychological difference between kids enjoying hurting you and
adults doing it. Perhaps I excuse kids by thinking 'they're not
intelligent enough yet to know any better...it's just like them pulling
the legs off flies', and so on. There are no such excuses for supposedly
sane adults; adults _considered_ sane by their own cultures or
governments. IMO the emotional shock at the reality of it plus my
inability to handle that make it the worst thing I can think of
experiencing. I think it's a personal problem, I can't or don't want to
face the truth that human beings can be that inhuman.
Forgive me if I'm being incoherent, I find it _very_ difficult to talk
about this, and I'm sort of fighting against a way-over-the-top
emotional reaction here...What I am saying is, if you experienced that,
I strongly suspect that you would agree with me. (NB -I am _not_
suggesting that you try it!)
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