Re: Iran captures British Forces at Gunpoint
Easy there...those are awfully brave words...yet you say that you've never been in any kind of a situation like that where you had to fear for your safety? Don't be so damn cocky.
Keep in mind that while your captors may face future retaliation for whatever they do to you, that's not going to help you right then, when they are interrogating you. And keep in mind that you wouldn't know SHIT. You don't see the news, you maybe don't know what they did with your buddies, you don't know if you'll be spending one week there or one year...and you don't know the limits of these specific people who hold your life in their hands. Will they really spare you from serious discomfort? Just how far would they go? Are they rational?
You'd have no idea where they'll really stop and how and when it will all really end. You really think you'd have the luxury to sit there and say "hey, I know! you guys can't hurt me, because you'll get in trouble if you do!" ...please.
And let's just say hypothetically that it came down to abuse or physical or psychological torture. You really think you'd be such a defiant superman? Bull. shit. You wouldn't spit in their faces. You'd fear for your life and break under the pain, just like me and 99% of humanity.
It's easy for you to sit there surrounded by your comfortable civilian life and talk a big game...and trivialize the way others have reacted in those kinds of situations. Before you pass judgement on them, go try it out yourself.
Easy there...those are awfully brave words...yet you say that you've never been in any kind of a situation like that where you had to fear for your safety? Don't be so damn cocky.
Keep in mind that while your captors may face future retaliation for whatever they do to you, that's not going to help you right then, when they are interrogating you. And keep in mind that you wouldn't know SHIT. You don't see the news, you maybe don't know what they did with your buddies, you don't know if you'll be spending one week there or one year...and you don't know the limits of these specific people who hold your life in their hands. Will they really spare you from serious discomfort? Just how far would they go? Are they rational?
You'd have no idea where they'll really stop and how and when it will all really end. You really think you'd have the luxury to sit there and say "hey, I know! you guys can't hurt me, because you'll get in trouble if you do!" ...please.
And let's just say hypothetically that it came down to abuse or physical or psychological torture. You really think you'd be such a defiant superman? Bull. shit. You wouldn't spit in their faces. You'd fear for your life and break under the pain, just like me and 99% of humanity.
It's easy for you to sit there surrounded by your comfortable civilian life and talk a big game...and trivialize the way others have reacted in those kinds of situations. Before you pass judgement on them, go try it out yourself.
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