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You realize that constant isolation tends to lead to psychological disorders, right? I'm not sure if you meant your post in jest, but I thought I point that one

You realize that constant isolation tends to lead to psychological disorders, right? I'm not sure if you meant your post in jest, but I thought I point that one problem out.

hugh4 11y ago
Regular solitary confinement is complete sensory deprivation. I'm talking about enriched solitary confinement with lots to keep the prisoner busy and occupied.
- norea-armozel 11y ago
  Um, no. As someone who's dealt with supposed enriched solitary confinement (self-imposed) it doesn't work out. You still get mentally disordered. It's just a fact of life that humans have to socialize to stay relatively sane.
  - hugh4 11y ago
    No offence but are you sure you weren't already disordered, and that's how you came to wind up solitaries confining yourself?
    - throaway151030 11y ago
      Jesus fucking christ man. Of course he was ("disordered", to use your phrasing), and of course we all are, to some greater or lesser extent. I spent a few months in self-imposed isolation in my adolescence, and yes, I was already fucked up going into it, but there's just no way of slicing it where those were anything other than the most self-destructive, dysfunctional, long-term-devastating months of my life. Fortunately I had people in my life who cared about me and pulled me out of it - far too late to prevent my social development from being permanently castrated, but I've always been stubborn, at least I'm able, a decade later, to be a more-or-less functional adult in my day-to-day life. Subjecting other people to this goes so far past "cruel and unusual" that idonteven - what the hell - you yourself have got to be pretty much entirely forfeit to think this would somehow be a positive experience for a human being. Jesus. fucking. christ. And yeah, for the record,, that comment would be highly offensive, if the ability to feel offence and outrage weren't one of the casualties a mere 12 weeks of what you're advocating as a rehabilitation mechanism. The mind boggles.
    - norea-armozel 11y ago
      No offence, but do you even have scientific evidence that there can be a form of semi-permanent to permanent isolation which is psychologically healthy for any human beings? Even ascetic monks have to interact from time to time before they crack. Humans didn't evolve for isolation.
- arguseyes 11y ago
  "I'm not talking about torture! I'm talking about 'enriched interrogation methods'!!!"

You realize that constant isolation tends to lead to psychological disorders, right? I'm not sure if you meant your post in jest, but I thought I point that one problem out.

hugh4 11y ago

Regular solitary confinement is complete sensory deprivation. I'm talking about enriched solitary confinement with lots to keep the prisoner busy and occupied.

norea-armozel 11y ago
Um, no. As someone who's dealt with supposed enriched solitary confinement (self-imposed) it doesn't work out. You still get mentally disordered. It's just a fact of life that humans have to socialize to stay relatively sane.
- hugh4 11y ago
  No offence but are you sure you weren't already disordered, and that's how you came to wind up solitaries confining yourself?
  - throaway151030 11y ago
    Jesus fucking christ man. Of course he was ("disordered", to use your phrasing), and of course we all are, to some greater or lesser extent. I spent a few months in self-imposed isolation in my adolescence, and yes, I was already fucked up going into it, but there's just no way of slicing it where those were anything other than the most self-destructive, dysfunctional, long-term-devastating months of my life. Fortunately I had people in my life who cared about me and pulled me out of it - far too late to prevent my social development from being permanently castrated, but I've always been stubborn, at least I'm able, a decade later, to be a more-or-less functional adult in my day-to-day life. Subjecting other people to this goes so far past "cruel and unusual" that idonteven - what the hell - you yourself have got to be pretty much entirely forfeit to think this would somehow be a positive experience for a human being. Jesus. fucking. christ. And yeah, for the record,, that comment would be highly offensive, if the ability to feel offence and outrage weren't one of the casualties a mere 12 weeks of what you're advocating as a rehabilitation mechanism. The mind boggles.
  - norea-armozel 11y ago
    No offence, but do you even have scientific evidence that there can be a form of semi-permanent to permanent isolation which is psychologically healthy for any human beings? Even ascetic monks have to interact from time to time before they crack. Humans didn't evolve for isolation.
arguseyes 11y ago
"I'm not talking about torture! I'm talking about 'enriched interrogation methods'!!!"