Is sleep deprivation a torture ?

[Aurel]

I am just asking your opinion. Sure there is no physical contact, but if someone prevented me from sleeping, I sure would feel like they are torturing me. It is, at least, a form of moral torture, which can be as painful as physical torture. So, what should be the real definition of a torture ? Isn`the distinction between physical/no physical a little hypocritical ?

Aurel

[Moses]

Originally posted by Aurel
I am just asking your opinion. Sure there is no physical contact, but if someone prevented me from sleeping, I sure would feel like they are torturing me. It is, at least, a form of moral torture, which can be as painful as physical torture. So, what should be the real definition of a torture ? Isn`the distinction between physical/no physical a little hypocritical ?

Aurel

Sure. Whatever. It's all a matter of degree. Can we redefine torture as "making one uncomfortable"? Is putting womens panties on Mustafas head torture?

Maybe asking questions of a suspect in an unfriendly tone might be torture if the suspect is a very sensitive type.

The bigger question is; Is it ever acceptable to use torture as part of an interrogation?

[Robert Coats]

Originally posted by Aurel
I am just asking your opinion. Sure there is no physical contact, but if someone prevented me from sleeping, I sure would feel like they are torturing me. It is, at least, a form of moral torture, which can be as painful as physical torture. So, what should be the real definition of a torture ? Isn`the distinction between physical/no physical a little hypocritical ?

Aurel

My oldest son attended a military school last year, and the leaders there made it very clear from the start that not getting sleep was a very effective way to "correct" the students. My son tells me it does indeed work, and was much more "attention getting" than just physical stuff (push ups, etc.) they administered.

[Don 944 LA]

not if you like hallucinating...

[nostatic]

I paid a lot of money during the early 80's to be sleep deprived...

[Mike(dat's me)]

I am sleep deprived every morning when I have to get up for work. Any lawyers wanna take this case? We can break new ground!

[red-beard]

Originally posted by Aurel
I am just asking your opinion. Sure there is no physical contact, but if someone prevented me from sleeping, I sure would feel like they are torturing me. It is, at least, a form of moral torture, which can be as painful as physical torture. So, what should be the real definition of a torture ? Isn`the distinction between physical/no physical a little hypocritical ?

Aurel

Why? Are we keeping you up late at night?

[Mule]

Police in New Orleans once solve the murder of an officer in an afternoon using nothing more than a plastic bag. THey rounded up "the usual suspects," one by one, cuffed them to a chair, asked a question. If they did not percieve the answer to be sufficiently sincere they would slip the plastic bag over the subject's head & allow him some time to reconsider his answer. No bruises just truth. The officers were later tried in a famous case known as the Algiers Seven.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Q: Is sleep deprivation a torture ?
A: If so, then the Universities across the USA and most hi-tech corporations are guilty of torture. Amnesty International should sue Cornell University on my behalf!

[chibone_914]

Torture? These are the same chowder heads that are complaining that having ladies underwear on your head and blasting AC/DC all night is torture.........Heck, that's a helluva party in my book! I was then sleep deprived in college, and survived on JOLT cola and Hostess chocolate gems.........

[gaijindabe]

Most 1 year olds should be reported to the UN. Cruel and unusual way to treat your parents, crying all night...

[Moses]

So Aurel. Looks like most folks don't think sleep deprivation is torture. Am I the only one who thinks it is torture? (And I'm completely OK with using it, by the way.)

[SteveStromberg]

Give me 15 minutes and I will have them singing.

It just takes a pair of vice grips, a bottle of Heet. Some Green Tabasco and an eye dropper.

The vice grips are attached to the Thumb. the Heet is put on there Balls.
A couple of drops of tabasco in the mouth. Then start tighting the vise grips a little at a time.

Then you tell them Talk or I will put the Bottle of Tabasco in their eyes one drop at a time.

[dhoward]

Sounds like typical frat initiation.

[GettinHeadStuds]

Frat.

[island911]

Originally posted by Moses
So Aurel. Looks like most folks don't think sleep deprivation is torture. Am I the only one who thinks it is torture? (And I'm completely OK with using it, by the way.)

. . . that figures.

A few weeks ago, I was held captive, drugged, and molested, every hour (min) thru night and day . . .for 5 DAYS!






*&#!%&$#@ hospital "recovery" rooms!

Obviously you Doctors think it's okay.

You guys get some sort of sick satisfaction out of it . . . doncha!?

[Moses]

Originally posted by island911
You guys get some sort of sick satisfaction out of it . . . doncha!?

Yeah. We're mostly sick bastards.

[island911]

it must come from those sleep-deprivation internship hazings they put you guys thru.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Welcome back island!

[azasadny]

Sleep deprivation has been used by the military to help train recruits in boot camp for a long time. Sleep deprivation helps get someone to do what you want, but it's not torture...