Horrifying. "Unscrupulous nations that use torture"...like...the US, perhaps?
Pain itself causes physiological and emotional changes. Agony is not harmless. It raises blood pressure, causes palpitations, actually makes your brain swell...someone exposed to this for an extended period of time would very likely die or experience permanent injury as the body's response to pain, regardless of whether it causes damage in the conventional sense.
A world in which a thing like this moves into common usage is unspeakable.
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Pain itself causes physiological and emotional changes. Agony is not harmless. It raises blood pressure, causes palpitations, actually makes your brain swell...someone exposed to this for an extended period of time would very likely die or experience permanent injury as the body's response to pain, regardless of whether it causes damage in the conventional sense.
A world in which a thing like this moves into common usage is unspeakable.
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