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The best way to discourage laughter is to make people associate it exclusively with aversive stimulus

>>19536203
I've always been partial to tickling
>the Moravian Brothers, a Protestant sect of Anabaptists opposed to bloodlettnig, executed transgressors by tickling them to death. Centuries earlier during the persecution of the Albigenses (heretics) during the French religious wars, Simon de Montfort executed some captives by tickling the soles of their feet with a feather.
>Josef Kohout, a man persecuted in the Flossenbürg concentration camp during World War II, allegedly witnessed Nazi prison guards perform tickle torture on a fellow inmate, followed by various other tortures which resulted in his death.
>An 1887 article entitled "England in Old Times" states "Gone, too, are the parish stocks, in which male offenders against public morality formerly sat imprisoned, with their legs held fast beneath a heavy wooden yoke, while sundry small but fiendish boys improved the occasion by deliberately pulling off the men's shoes and tickling the soles of their defenseless feet."
>During the 20th century, the Chatouilleuses helped Mayotte stay French by using tickle torture on local political leaders.

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>>19375989

A Billion Wicked Thoughts

> What if tickling is the way to redeem laughter? It inverts its normal function. Instead of being an expression of gross levity, it becomes a sign of stress and discomfort. And the best part is that the sufferer’s expressions of suffering imitate the conventional noises of happiness, thus encouraging their tormentors to continue tickling them. In effect, they are being punished with laughter for laughing.

> It might be a good temporary measure to use while society is phasing out and abolishing laughter. “If you enjoy laughing so much, then we will tie you down and make you laugh for hours!” The trauma will help make people associate laughter with displeasure. A kind of aversive conditioning.