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I'm not sure how torture in VR would be any worse than torture in real life. The focus should be on outlawing torture, not slowing down unrelated technology bec
by kevinh 11y ago
I'm not sure how torture in VR would be any worse than torture in real life. The focus should be on outlawing torture, not slowing down unrelated technology because it could possibly be used for torture.
Are we going to ban the drill? The hammer? Towels? Those can all be used for torture, but that's not the use case for 99.999% of all uses.
- kbenson 11y agoI think it's less about VR torture as a replacement for torture in general, and more about VR torture as a more effective replacement for current psychological torture. There's nothing preventing them from continuing with physical torture to in addition, or as a supplement to VR torture.
- krapp 11y agoUnless we're talking about some sort of implanted brain-machine interface that directly alters human perception I don't see VR being even an effective replacement for psychological torture.