This is clearly not simulating drowning. It is causing drowning, but giving you a way out.
You'll take that way out everytime, even if you actually wanted to die.
Your brain will force you to try for oxygen.
This is nothing like, for example, a self-inflicted gunshot, where, by the time it hurts you, its too late, or jumping in front of a tractor-trailer loaded with 100,000 lbs of goods.
Its also nothing like bleeding you slowly (which will cause endorphins to block the pain), or cutting a limb off (which will also allow your body to release drugs to counter the pain.)
This is torture pure and simple, but where the body is programmed to give up.
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