Would You Let Someone Waterboard You For $50,000?

Would you spend 40 seconds of your life being waterboarded, if you had a physician AND a psychologist standing nearby to ensure your safety and sanity?

For 50K, I could take an entire year off of work.

For 50K, I could get out of debt, buy a new car, and take a pretty fantastic vacation.

For 50K, I could put down a heck of a downpayment on that little retirement hobby farm I've had my eye on.

So, yeah, I'd take the "torture" for $50,000.  Would you?

After all, it seems a lot easier than what the contestants on Survivor or Fear Factor have to go through.  I'd rather be waterboarded than eat crickets, for example.

So, what do you say?  Do you think most Americans would subject themselves to waterboarding for 50 grand?  

• Would You Let Someone Waterboard You For $50,000? - ctmt
  • That's why I can't understand Sean Hannity isn't doing it for charity. - Lisa
  • Not enough money in world to feel like I am drowning - sm
    • Not a lot of money? Count yourself blessed. - ctmt
  • I know....(sm) - Just the big bad
    • There you go. You should do a comedy tour. - ctmt
    • I know this is tough to understand, but... - Kendra
    • Sorry, JTBB, other countries use worse torture than what was stated here. - Backwards typist
      • So, because some other countries.....(sm) - Just the big bad
        • The problem is that you ONLY see our faults. - ctmt
        • Oh...don't you mean the faults - Trigger Happy
        • I wasn't saying it was okay. What I was saying - Backwards typist
    • OMG! Are you telling me - Trigger Happy
      • Now you understand! - A.Nonymous
        • We can sum all of the above in one sentence: - A.Nonymous
      • First of all...(sm) - Just the big bad
        • I have taken a peek at the real world. - Trigger Happy
          • Logic + Big Bad - Never the twain shall meet. - ctmt
  • Heck, they could do it for $500. I need a new TV set. - (nm) - Topaz
  • If our military can - Trigger Happy
  • Sign me up! - Old part-timer
  • Sure, but I'd rather be in a small room with a caterpillar! - Kendra
    • Ah, but what if we make it a FUZZY caterpillar? - TechSupport
      • I knew it! (see post above somewhere) - TS is a FUZZY!
      • Make it a fuzzy bunny and I'm out! - Kendra
      • But... the fuzzies are the cutest ones! - "I brake for fuzzy caterpillars!"
        • I think you underestimate our caterpillars. - TechSupport
          • LMAO!!! - Trigger Happy
  • We put our own forces through it all the time... - TechSupport
  • Not sure how the rest of Americans would vote - Definitely!
  • Would this be taxable? - Mythbuster
  • You are kidding, right? Are you referring to the waterboarding in the prisons? - duh?
    • Give me a break. - Trigger Happy
      • I do not feel sorry for the 'terrorists', I feel - ?
        • The people who are in Gitmo - Trigger Happy
          • Yes, there are also innocent people in prisons on death row. - ?
            • They're ALL innocent...ask 'em! - A.Nonymous
            • I know that innocent - Trigger Happy
    • Here are a few facts from the memo. - ctmt
  • It beats having your head cut off - me
  • In a prior post I made the following offer: - A.Nonymous
  • I'm sure they would! - sbMT

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for preparation so they will be able to withstand such tactics.  It is also done with their consent. 

This isn't an either/or proposition.  Waterboarding according to our laws as well as the geneva convention is torture whether you like it or not.  Comparing it to something worse doesn't make it legal and doesn't make it a better practice.  Robbery is a crime, but it's not as bad as murder, so does that make it okay to commit robbery?

Instead I would use methods that actually work.

You want to know what's really funny?  You guys were all over Clinton because of his indiscretions -- saying it was a moral issue.  But then when it comes to something like torture (which is a much more serious issue than Clinton's -- and yes, is also a moral issue, not to mention against national and international law) you're fine and dandy with it.  That's what I call hypocrisy at its best.