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Originally Posted by Undertoad
Stuff your mama did to you as a kid is now "torture". Stuff you would do to win a $100 bet is now "torture". Stuff weaker than any 15 second segment of Jackass is now "torture". And why. Because it's the only way to win the argument.
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Right on -- we can even do more than that. Some people have been able to fast for as many as thirty days or more
and they did it willingly. Imagine what kind of great information we could extract if we withheld food for even longer periods of time! Bring them right to the edge of death and make them talk. In the end it isn't torture -- not a mark on 'em! They'll live. We never ratified -- never even signed -- the Inter-American Convention, so we can do everything from beat someone "less-than-severely" everyday for months on end to perform mock executions so often the prisoner suffers cardiac arrest or embolism from stress. Again:
not torture! Death by natural causes, people pull pranks worse than this, etc etc.
On a parallel, I once had a neighbor with a husband who screamed, insulted, mocked, and called her worthless everyday for years while they were married. She had the nerve to call these non-physical events "abuse" and ended up saying she needed prescribed medication to keep the panic attacks away to function normally in society and sleep at night. Guy never laid a finger on her and now she says she's having trouble with relationships
because someone yelled at her. Whatever. Geeze. My mom yelled at me when I was a kid and I turned out just fine.
