re: #361 zombie

If I had to choose between being electrocuted and being waterboarded:
I’d choose waterboarding.

Tazers electrocute but don’t leave permanent damage (which is the whole reason they’re being used) - seems like that puts them and waterboarding in the same class of techniques.

Incidentally, it was alleged during the Bush years that telling the world about waterboarding would let terrorists prepare themselves against it. Can you prepare yourself against it? It’s been suggested that it’s not physically possible to kill yourself by holding your breath, for example, because, at some point, your hypothalamus will force you to breath. Does waterboarding create so primal an response that no amount of preparation will prepare you against it?