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Date Posted: 12:33:14 09/12/00 Tue
Author: oyster
Subject: Re: eh?
In reply to: Brain 's message, "Re: eh?" on 09:24:22 09/12/00 Tue

> > > he's forgetting ofcourse the fact that there is no
> > > such thing as a "truth serum", it's like saying
> > > "hypnosis makes people tell the truth", no, it
> > > doesn't, it merely leaves them open for suggestion
> > and
> > > they become highly entrenched in fantasies. there
> > > isn't any drug that truly makes you tell the truth.
> >
> > I didn't know that. Truth serum is just a convenient
> > thing for movies and television. Miseducation is
> > everywhere.
>
> Miss education is when he believes that when a person
> gets pentotal natrium in the right dosage, that he
> would have ANY will power at all left. The will power
> and the resistance under the influence of pentotal
> natrium in the right dosage simply does not exist
> anymore. It’s ALL gone.
>


That would be misjudging. Miseducation would be if he was told that.

Sounds like being hypnotized, basically. You're so suggestive in that state that testimony shouldn't be valid if it is... I would guess that it isn't, but I don't know.

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