<p>Would you rather die with honor, or live to see another day?</p>
<p>depends on what i'm confessing</p>
<p>I would just make up ****, like most tortured people do.</p>
<p>I would use my best Jack Bauer impersonation</p>
<p>I'm siding with the "depends" response.</p>
<p>+1 on depends</p>
<p>depends on the type of torture, and what i'm confessing.</p>
<p>What happens if we don't have anything bad to confess? =/</p>
<p>then ur screwed. Cuz they want something bad outta u no matter what.</p>
<p>My God guys.... you guys are deluded if you think you won't crack under professional torture... You guys watch too many movies of badly done examples... and overly unrealistically indifferent protagonists... It's not just some badly accented foreigner slapping you around with a glove... </p>
<p>Some of the instruments of torture... are just horrendous... head crushers, burning, water drowning, sleep/sensory deprivation, impalement, electricity, boiling oil... humanity's had a long run with this kind of stuff... not to mention good old fashioned starvation, beatings, and sexual assault... </p>
<p>Some methods don't really require instruments at all... it doesn't take much to pull out teeth, or jam long sharp sticks into each fingernail... </p>
<p>and they have all the time in the world... no one wants a quick answer... weeks after months in a windowless underground cell too small to lie down or stand up amidst the cold, starvation... which is their least of your worries when you're getting tortured 18 hours a day... and with absolutely no prospect of escape or rescue, while the organization you are protecting is vehemently denying that you exist...</p>
<p>and they're sticking jagged sticks underneath your fingernails!!!! How much more does it take to get you to sing???</p>
<p>thanks for the visuals gryffon</p>
<p>i'd probably kill myself first, or then i would bit the guy's artery, steal his key, run through the secret tunnel to go stop the bomb (jack bauer is my hero lol). Gryffon5147, it sounds like you may have a bit of experience in the field...:) But i think i could hold out for a while, long enough for the marines to come and get me:0</p>
<p>Only if they give me sundae's with strawberry and chocolate toppings.</p>
<p>I'D GRIN AND BEAR IT</p>
<p>haha just kidding I'd tell all.</p>
<p>if the torture has something to do with my private area, then haaa hell yes im gonna spill the beans </p>
<p>but for anything else....well....now that I think about it I would probably confess then too haha im just bein realistic</p>
<p>I would sing for sure :P</p>
<p>I have a low pain threshold lol</p>
<p>Yes.
I've gone into hypovolemic shock once (simply caused by not having access to water for one single day), and all I wanted was to die.
I had panic attacks (which I perceived as extremely painful heart attacks and the worst thing that ever happened to me), I was disoriented and couldn't recognize anything or anybody, I thought I'd freeze to death although - it was a hot summer, and I had to be restrained and sedated to avoid harming myself.
I really thought I'd die, and was so terrible alone - the sensory deprivation (couldn't understand anything they said, couldn't feel anything but restraints, had tunnel vision and everything was so cold, cold,cold) was the worst. </p>
<p>They managed to get me better in about half an hour, and some effects lasted longer (chills, problems with panic,..), but it was definitely the worst time of my life.</p>
<p>And this was just after getting too little water - and that's the least thing a professional torturer would do. This has nothing to do with honor, but a lot with physical reactions. You can't think when you're in that much pain, you just want it to end, end, end,.. Even if it kills you.</p>
<p>Depends, as well. Depends on what are the consequences of confessing, what is the information being kept secret and for whom, how skilled the torturers are, etc...</p>
<p>Totally depends--</p>
<p>If I ABSOLUTELY KNOW that the consequences of my squealing is going to result in the murder, rape, any form of torture to ANY of the people I love- then I'd rather die than rat them out. I could never live with my cowardice and guilt.
Its weird, but i've often thought about this question because in every movie, book (HP- Die Wormtail!) and television show- I've always HATED the character that betrays trust and saves his/her own ass at the cost of someone else's life. Hence, I've always wondered how I would react.</p>
<p>I'm really boring. I don't have anything to confess. There's really no reason to torture me.</p>
<p>But if I were under torture, obviously, I'd moan and scream that I had done the most horrendous things to make it stop. I'm betting most people here would, no matter what they say. When my father was in Vietnam he supported torture (disgusting, I know) though he says he never did it himself (I'm inclined to believe him because to do otherwise would hurt too much) but real torture is really, really effed up and scary.</p>