Total sensory deprivation/eternal nothingness.
If I ran Limbo, I’d have everyone limbo dancing. When people invariably asked, I’d explain that was where the name came from.
Listening to the Captain and Tennille for 8 hours every day.
For whom? I think some people are missing the point of the thread:
Although, that’s easier said than done, and I haven’t come up with any good answers myself.
This is what I fantasize about doing to ISIS fighters - solitary confinement for the rest of your life, locked in a cell with no books, computers, magazines, etc. Fed through a slot in the wall, and never seeing or speaking to another human again.
Agreement…also with the addendum. Infinite punishment is out of proportion.
I can see some validity to the “threefold law,” so maybe making Hitler experience the lives of all his victims thrice would be proper. I dunno. I’ve never been comfortable with the threefold law, as it sounds to me too much like “three eyes for an eye and three teeth for a tooth.”
But some kind of consciousness-raising exercise seems wholly valid. Maybe get a very good lecturer/teacher to explain, quietly and rationally, why some actions are wrong. If the person in question can be educated and reformed, that’s a good thing, isn’t it?
For any evil leader, solitary.
Itching like mad, all over, w/o a scratch mechanism.
Being all-knowing, which I presume the CEO of Hell would be, I would intuit what activity would constitute hopelessness for each individual. Then, like Sisyphus and his boulder, I would doom the individual to spend each day engaged in that activity, only to have it all disappear overnight and have to start all over again in the morning.
I’d start with innumerable paper cuts on their thumbs and then ensure they had teeth sensitive to hot, cold, sweet, and random “yikes” for no reason at all. If they had been really nasty people, then rapid cycling bi-polar with nary a shrink or pill to be had. I’m not nice.
If I ran Hell, first thing I’d do would be a serious reorganization and rebranding. I’d create several new circles to directly compete with Heaven and these would be filled mostly with good people who were disqualified from Heaven on a mere technicality. Galileo, Einstein, Empedocles and the millions of generally good people had he misfortune of being condemned to Hell simply for never having heard of religion.
Then I’d form a big marketing department to get the word out that New Hell™ is an appealing alternative to the stuffy, preachy boring Heaven.
I’d still keep the lower circles for the truly evil people. Televangelists would run those.
So the ultimate HOA.
You are an evil bastard.
Excellent.