no matter how innocuous it may seem. It appears Cuthbert that you define torture on a purely physical level, that unless you are bleeding and screaming that anything else isn't torture. Have you ever heard of some of the techniques that certain cults use for brainwashing? The techniques that you describe as "not torture" such as sleep deprivation and humiliation are designed to menatally distress the person in order for the person holding them can get what they want out of them. One of the culminations of this type of distress can result in Stockholm Syndrome where the hostage identifies with it's captors. Torture is basically another form of terrorism.
Someone can correct me on this as I am not really thinking straight today, lack of concentration, and I am not saying what I really want to say.
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