Described as both “rat torture” and “rat excitation,” these techniques employ rats to conveniently exploit the common human phobia toward rodents. The inquisitor out to get a confession places a few rats in a bucket, blocks the vermin’s escape with the victim’s stomach, then heats up the exposed end of the bucket to annoy the rats. Whatever method is used, the end result is always the same: Hungry rats, excited by fire, only have one escape path: they must burrow through the poor victim’s flesh.
Abby, I don’t have a discourse-specific blog, so I’m reblogging this to my transmed blog. I need to talk about this. You, my dear, are the victim of brainwashing.
You made this post more than a month ago so I pray that you no longer agree with the view you expressed here, but if you do, I feel so so so sorry for any children you have in the future.
All that aside, let’s address the actual video you’ve linked above; it’s atrocious. The woman in it outright says the book is ‘unbiased’ for whatever reason - as if the author is providing both sides; he isn’t.
But here, this review on Goodreads explains the issues much, muchmuch better than I can: (below the cut because it’s long)
Vaccinations keep not just you healthy, but those with less stable health that need protecting.
do you know what they put in vaccines?
have you researched that? stories from both sides?
For fuck’s fucking sake.
You know what they put in salt? Have you researched that? Were you aware that salt is made of two elements that will both KILL or HARM you??
Listen to me. Listen to my words. The things put into vaccines seem scary INDIVIDUALLY because either they’re complex or, on their own, harmful… but all together (in minute quantities I might add) they can HELP you.
Do you know what percent of people who get vaccinated are made seriously ill from the vaccine specifically? Do you know what percent of people would be seriously ill WITHOUT them?
Look up herd immunity. Look outside the anti vax bubble. Realize there’s a reason that anti vaxxers are relentlessly mocked by the outside world.
Fucking realize that choosing not to vaccinate doesn’t just affect you. You are putting pregnant women, young children, people with allergies, chronically ill people, and far more at risk. You are part of the fucking reason so many preventable diseases are killing people.
Here is some fucking research for you before you fuck up a life.
Show me some fucking anti vax facts that you’ve researched. I fucking dare you.
I am done here.
I don’t have time to respond to someone typing smug words from behind a screen.
calm down. just calm down.
Do you fucking hear yourself? You think I’m being smug? I am angry, Abby. You are acting dangerous. You are spouting bullshit and then claiming that everyone else needs to ‘do their research’. Get the fuck over yourself and stop plugging your goddamn ears.
Part of the problem is thay she’ll never listen. Mostly because followers of pseudoscience are basically straight up cult-like when reality comes in with facts and even outright incintrovertable evidence. See folks who take a whole bottle of homeopathic sleeping pills and stay awake and even living when that much according to homeopathy should kill them.