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04-28-2009, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by solemnclockwork View Post
it tricks your brain into an "flee" response. In very rare circumstance do you even actually start to drown, as the technique requires you to be in such an degree as to NOT allow water into the lungs.
Slight problem here! The people who are administering this torture have little incentive to assure that the "safe degree" is maintained. Nor is a medical history of the subjects comprehensive enough to rule out their body reactiing in a manner that would induce death, despite the water only filling the expected passages. This is a high a risk, possibly more, as playing with autostrangulation - which despite the medical analysis to the contrary kills many people every year.

As for the "flee" response not being damaging - INCORRECT. You need more case study on condition responses if you believe this. The research did not stop with Pavlov. Repeated autonomic programing of such reactions has proven reliably damaging (sometimes deadly) on a consistent basis.


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