UT: thus the qualifier, for pleasure (where pleasure is the sole and efficienct cause for the person inflicting the pain).
Innoculting an infant agaist disease, even where it causes discomfort, is a very different thing from giving a baby the disease for the sole purpose of watching it suffer. One would be a justifiable act, the other is clearly not.
An interesting thought experiment, but it doesn't fit the initial conditions.
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