stoicsentry: 1.) Lock you up.
2.) Figure out what your greatest desires are in life.
3.) Put them just outside of your reach and consistently taunt you with them. For example, if it's love then I will keep locking up a love interest with you, then I would take her away. She will pretend to like you then at a pre-designated time she will berate and belittle you and then leave.
If it was wealth, I would present you with great riches and promise that if you win my "game" then you will be let go to enjoy your freedom and get to keep all of the riches. However, I will rig each "game" so that it appears winnable but you CANNOT win!
4.) On random days, I will spike the food/water I'm giving you with hallucinatory drugs. Just to mess with you.
5.) Each week, at a scheduled time, you will have a fingernail, toenail or tooth extracted. I will call this "rent." Sometimes I will play with you by delaying the scheduled time, making you think I forgot. BUT I DID NOT FORGET!
6.) Toddlers will be brought into the room once a week to beat you with sticks as you are tied down.
7.) Depending on my mood, your room will be constantly subjected to country music or rap at unprecedented decibels.
8.) When the music is not going, you will be watching the same episode of Joanie Loves Chachi over and over and over and over...
9.) You will urinate in a bucket. This urine will be collected and then periodically dropped on you from the ceiling as you sleep.
10.) After 2 years of this, a loaded shotgun "mysteriously" appears in the room. I'm not going to use it on you. It's just there....
This way, my conscience is blameless.
....I need therapy.