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It's easy to imagine yourself withstanding torture in order to save a loved one... until you hit your thumb with a hammer or stub your toe IRL (self.showerthoughts)
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Sorry fam, I can buy you maybe 5 minutes. Make 'em count.

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[–] ultrahamster64 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I think stubbing your toe hurt so much is because it's pointless - you did to yourself "for free"

If I'm dying for someone I love at least it's not in vain

[–] Xeroxchasechase 14 points 1 month ago

You've just proved the point of the post: he easy it is tob imagine yourself doing it for a ooved one

[–] Droggelbecher 5 points 1 month ago

Very true, even in a less life/death situation. Example, a piercing hurts much much more than stubbing your toe, but people, myself included, keep coming back for more of them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Can you stub your toe to prove you would be able to withstand torture for a loved one?

It isn't pointless then!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

What if the torturer put you in a dark room with a bunch of steel IKEA furniture and bedfames, (no mattresses) and a heated floor with 2 zones (only 1 is on at a time) so that you would have to either brave the gauntlet of IKEA to keep your feet warm or tell them what they want to hear?