What I do is make a tax deductible contribution to Victims of Torture. They walk among us.

Case dependant! What happens after? Do we revert back to our own bodies? Or do I have the choice to remain in their unsullied body, to accept it as my new vessel? (As pointed out below) is the torture mental, physical or both?

Is it better to be paralyzed and sound of mind,
Or
Able bodied and have post traumatic stress disorder? This is assuming, the body I got switched with wasn't some frail old, disabled woman already on life support. Meaning if she dies during the torture, my mind dies with her..

And the above is only one possible out out come...

Your question sort of assumes that personality and memory is seperate from the body. In order for a stranger to have the same mental attributes as me their brain would have to be completely reformatted. So if consciousness is derived from the specifics of your own brain you would be better served betting on the new bodt with your brain in it.

I like though experiments.... I'll say torture my body implanted with the stanger "soul" (for lack of a better word) and leave my implanted self alone. I think I would feel being me at the stranger body, right?

I want to know about what body I'm being placed in. That could be a sticking point from the get go as the body I am put into could be filled with disease or be that of someone who is on a hit list or any number of nefarious choices. And then what exactly is my reward for doing this?

This is a loaded question. The concept of the problem innately produces more than two solutions because of the selves involved and their propensities.

I would first want to have proof that he was as claimed.

First I want congratulate you because of this hard problem of thinking!!

I think I would decide that my body implanted with the stranger's mental attributes receives the punishment because I'm thinking there will be alive my mental attributes in body's stranger. And even my body will be hurt, there are my mental attributes safe and the stranger will be able to use everything I invested in my mind and to be a good influence for people.

Depends on what type of torture? Physical or mental? Would I have to watch Trump talking (lying) for ions or are my teeth being pulled? I kinda like my body and spent a lot of money on my teeth ?, but could not withstand mental torture. So I guess if it’s mental, my body and the other brain can handle it. If it’s physical the other persons body can have it. ???

I don't think I see a time scale involved. I would procrastinate until both me and the other person died of old age. I mean face it, all powerful critters can do whatever they choose.

I got confused.

Hidden answer three: tell the demon to go suck a nut.

But in general I choose to put the torment into the body I am consciously inhabiting.

You and the stangers must be veiwed ethically as equal worth, if for no other reason than that they are an unknown quantity.

There for the goal should be to minimize suffering across the group.

We might as well assume the demon will deal out pain equally, the only remaining variable is that we have no reason to know if the stranger has any knowledge of the situation.

Pain and suffering cuase greater mental instability we the come from an unknown source, or for unknown reasons...

Ethically, the person who knows is obligated to accept the pain as their own.

You must not have cable! ☺

I don't believe in demons.

It’s a good question. It makes you think about the enigma of personal identity. We often think that we are our bodies, but that might not be true at all.

We are very different people than we were at six years old, with a handful of memories being the only apparent connection. IMO, even though we are split off into different personalities, at heart our essence is pure consciousness, shared by all. As individuals we just play our assigned roles for awhile. Then the curtain closes.

A demon? Sounds like something god would do.

Neither.
I'd be taking a right proper swing at the s.o.b. though. You know, just for being a sadistic fucktard.