torture victim double agent (or maybe torturer or) is taken to a human trafficking conference
speaker: “and it was horrible and we arrested hundreds of traffickers”
attendee: “oh i arrest human traffickers yes”
attendee 37: “we all arrest human traffickers! they’re so bad and we are so tough and we arrest them all the time!”
tvda: “i don’t understand why they are arresting people for something that doesn’t exist”
speaker: “thousands of trafficked people were —“
tvda: “i don’t understand why i am somewhere that doesn’t exist”
tvda stares at disguised experimentee
disguised experimentee looks compassionately at tvda
disguised experimentre: “oh you poor torture victim double agent, the cognitive dissonance doesn’t make any sense at all”
a pause
tvda: “i can’t believe boss lied to me”
tvda: “i can’t believe boss lied to me and i did horrible things to everyone i loved”
tvda looks like he might die of tension or go beserk