The tickle belt is an extraordinary contraption. According to Spongebob, the tickle belt is locked to the waist of someone and with the push of a button the person gets thrown to the ground in a fit of laughter. Many things in Spongebob are not feasible such as a squirrel living under water, and a talking sponge. However, the tickle belt is in fact, very feasible. Based on Kody and I's research, we have concluded that a simple vibration device on the inside of a lightweight metal belt that can be remote activated. There's really not much to a tickle belt, which is why we focused the majority of our research on the effects of the tickle belt and how the tickle belt would be used in everyday life. If the tickle belt were to be created, it could revolutionize parenting styles, teaching obedience, and correctional practices. Parents could use the tickle belt on their children as a new form of punishment. It would get a message across, without causing physical pain or hatred toward their parents. The tickle belt could be made into a device for a dog. It would be easy enough to adjust the size of the belt and could be used to teach dogs obedience. If your dog starts to bark, you could give him a tickling sensation which would stop the barking almost instantly and would not make your dog want to bark anymore. The tickle belt could also be used in correctional institutions to keep prisoners in line. If the tickle belt was implemented, Prisoners could be controlled much easier because they would be a button push away from being forced to laugh while having minimal movement over their bodies. Those are some of the uses of the tickle belt in every day life. There is no doubt that the tickle belt would be effective, the question is whether or not the belt should be used in everyday life due to the physical and psychological effects of it. As Kody and I have already proved in our previous post, Tickling does not bring joy, it actually causes pain and laughter is just a defense mechanism to the tickling. A lot of tickling can also lead to serious nerve damage and death. If the tickle belt were to be used in everyday life, it would be used in cases as minor as a dog barking, but could lead to consequences far more severe. It reminds us of the saying "the punishment must fit the crime" and with the tickle belt, the punishment might be too much for an innocent misbehavior. The tickle belt could also cause severe psychological effects. Before having the tickle belt used on you, you wouldn't mind being tickled, but if the tickle belt was used too much, it could cause you to develop a fear of it very easily. If a fear developed, every time someone would come near you, you would back up in fear of being tickled again. This fear would also make the tickle belt to serious of a punishment, so it could again, cause far too serious consequences. Based on all of these factors, Kody and I have decided that the tickle belt should not be implemented into society because it could cause serious physical and psychological pain, and it is not ethical to cause all this pain for some minor crimes or even misbehaving.
Group collaboration: Kody and I worked tremendously together. We have both spent the past three weeks researching topics such as the pain tickling causes and how nerve damage works. Kody did not have access to a computer, so he was unable to write any of these posts but he more than made up for it in the amount of research he did for this project. We were able to divide the work evenly making this a great learning experience for the both of us.
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