“…A Question Fitting for the Holidays”

“What is the most petrifying weapon to get tortured by?”

Ah, a question fitting for the holidays.

Christmas dinner with the least favorite relatives immediately comes to mind, as does being locked in a room with this playing at top volume for hours:

I would even venture to suggest that I would be a wonderful architect of madness if I was ever allowed to design airports…

However, actual implements of torture throughout history are never amusing and often the source of nightmares. I mean, you could take your pick of any one form and it would make just about anyone flinch and wonder: “What in the HELL was WRONG with people back then?!”

Me? My own point of petrification?

Hands down: the “Spanish donkey,” or any sort of gravity-based torture.

What in the hell was WRONG with people back then?

EDIT:

I posted without commenting on what is a truly terrifying instrument of torture:

Ideas.

After all, every device created to inflict a slow and excruciating death was the result of an idea and the product of a society where such notions were the norm… Yes, a far extreme of the norm, but accepted as justifiable nonetheless.

So yeah… Ideas.