[HPforGrownups] Re: Unforgiveable and dark magic

[EnsTren at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 79132

In a message dated 8/28/2003 9:33:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
carlpelleg at aol.com writes:

> Cruciatus Curse - As this gives pain it could be used, in small doses, to 
> help interrogate a prisoner. Or it can help an individual learn to control 
> pain 
> in their body. Otherwise it could be used in an offensive capacity. (This is 
> 
> all I can think about this curse, if I can think of more reasons than I will 
> 
> post my thoughts.)

I just recalled something I learned in psyc class to add onto this.

There are children, and people, born mentally retarded, I think it's a form 
of autuism.  And they hurt themselves.

They try to rip out their eyes, bite off their lips, etc.  Apprently it feels 
good to them.

In certain studies...Well you all know about the rat experiment?  They hooked 
up a rat's pleasure centers to wires so when it pushed a peddel it got 
plesently jolted and it eventually died because it didn't eat or sleep?

Well they recently started doing the same thing to people like that, only the 
pain centers, and less invasive surgery.  Guess what?  It works.  For some 
odd reason they like the pain they get from hurting themselves in specific ways, 
but not the ways that are caused by the electrodes.

This is also used, again with no invasive surgery, more like jolts to the 
skin, on *babies*.

Specifically ones that throw up.  I'm not talking normal baby barfing, but 
every time they eat or drink they will (I use this word because they simply 
throw up, not shove their fingers down their throat) themselves to throw up.  
Typically this is thought to start to get attention.  But they don't stop and end 
up dying from dehydration.  Getting shocked stops them from doing this, 
because it's the only way to teach them in those circumstances.

Replace electricity and surgery with a crucio and you have another few 
reasons.


Nemi
       --Black Dragon
       --Slasher and Yaoist
       --Utterly Psycotic


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