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VirtueIn ago

Not to comment on the rest of the post, but I want to clarify something -- Chinese water torture and waterboarding are really two completely different things.

One relies on a breaking of the psyche via time and persistence (CWT), and the other relies on the psychological and physical sensation of drowning to motivate a response.

CWT is when they tie you down and place you beneath a container of water, and then you just sit/lay there as a drop of water falls on you (usually the forehead or face) every several seconds; slowly but surely, watching the water gradually collect and finally drop on you is said to drive you mad. This is partially, allegedly, due to the sensation that a hollow is forming inside your head.

Remember, if we claim that they're re-defining words that they're actually not, our argument will look far more specious.

We need to be vigilante in our accuracy and precision. We cannot create horrors; we need to open peoples' eyes to the actual horrors.