When Elaine Scarry wrote about Sartre's story "the wall" about the prisoner in Spain that had the death sentence. He was then given the option to live, if and only if, he rats out his friend. Now he gives a false location, but they get his friend anyway and he is not sentenced to death. This Scarry is the "mock execution",a "process of dying". It strikes me as very interesting because it is a clever way to get the information that you want. Its a psychological cleverness that makes the person so desperate that he would do anything to just get out of being executed. This is back to my other blog post where i talked about the torture of Abu Ghrabi, that physical torture didn't quite work with getting answers, that psychological torture was the best way to get accurate answers. Granted i am not saying any type of torture is good, but the way to play with a person psyche to get answers is better then pulling out teeth, or breaking bones.
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