I saw someone submitting to "waterboarding" on the news in protest. Did this help or hurt his position?

Question

Would he have submitted to other types of torture if they were currently in the news? I am aware you can't speak for him but what do you think?

Answer 1

I think he's an idiot.

I mean really..

If what he was doing is "illegal torture", shouldn't he be arrested for it?

And if he was so easily "tortured", how bad can it really be?

What an idiot.

Answer 2

I think he helped it.   People need to see what it is to really understand it.  I applaud him for having the courage to do it.   It was easy for him, though, because he knew what was going on, he knew that they wouldn't drown him...  imagine the torture from someone having that done to them for real?

Answer 3

Well I think that if he didn't suffer too badly that it hurt his cause.  But if he had to be hospitalized after then it would have helped.

Answer 4

Morgan Spurlock did the same thing with his 2004 Academy-Award nominated documentary SUPERSIZE ME; that is, he subjected himself to a kind of torture (in this case, eating nothing but fast food for a month) in order to dramatize a social concern and heighten public awareness.  It's easy not to think about torture, or where your food comes from, or any number of things... And without such dramatic displays many people would never pay much attention.