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The Water Boarding Challenge.

I came up with a fun game to play with all those who say water boarding isn't torture. Anyone who says it isn't, can come over to my place, and I will water board them until they admit that it is torture. Everyone breaks eventually. The fear of drowning is hard wired to cause panic in your brain in a way you can't control. Once my subject learns that the only way I will stop water boarding them is admit that water boarding is torture, they will then admit that water boarding is torture.

As a thought experiment, this nicely shows the two purposes of torture. Number 1: torture people you don't like. Number 2: extract a confession to what the torturer wants to hear as condition for stopping the torture.

See how long this brave journalist lasted under water boarding:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/20/playboy-journo-bets-he-ca_n_189280.html