Reply #8: Small defense of McCain, something he'd best not get used to [View All]

[tavalon]

He was saying that between a beating or a mock death, he would take the beating rather than the death threat because of the emotional toll of both. As a survivor of childhood torture and abuse, I concur, beatings were preferable to the terror for one's life. I spent much of my healing time in therapy around the more amorphous but more damaging emotional abuse, under which any technique that makes you believe you are about to die fits.

I would prefer a beating to some of the exquisite mind fucks in which I was convinced I would die at my captors hands. May this br the last time I actually agree with this lying fossil.