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It should be alarming because it is quite evil, in the truest sense of the word. It actively harms and destroys a person's mind, and what comes closer to soul t
by trod1234 1y ago
It should be alarming because it is quite evil, in the truest sense of the word. It actively harms and destroys a person's mind, and what comes closer to soul than a person's mind?
What happens when you strip objective reality away from people, isolate them, harass them, coerce them, without any agency (hint: these same elements in aggregate meet a clinical definition of torture).
How much exposure is too much? Every person is different.
There's 50+ years, of established material that touches on the perils of this subject matter. Joost Meerloo, Robert Lifton, and many of his partners who researched cult deprogramming.
At its core, this tool strips objective reality from people, isolates them, and does so an arbitrary basis (who defines radical?), and the effect is outcomes towards distorting the person's reflected appraisal.
It doesn't de-radicalize them... it melts their brains in a trauma loop, and people fall into two groups under such psychological induced stress.
The first is disassociation, the second is violent psychosis, but not normal psychosis; a semi-lucid psychosis capable of planning. Each person is different and has different exposure limits, so the resulting outcomes is either no communication, or chaos.
This violates the Geneva convention on human rights, and worse, the entire concept of informed consent. Highly unethical and evil.