For 1000 sheets a second I'd do a few minutes.
But of course its torture. If you are going to do it to people you need to have the courage to admit to yourself what it is youre doing. And I think most experience shows that torture is often a hopeless method of gathering information - because it just makes people tell you what they think you want or anything to sop the torture.
America and the UK are hardly the worst nations for employing these types of techniques against people and other supoerpowers such as China have committed far greater human rights abuses: but you cant really fight under the banner of freedom and liberation when you must abandon your ideals to fight for the things you want to defend. (not that I call the UK a superpower of course, not since WWII have we been a great power)
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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