"Sure it does. Torture in the infliction of gratuitous pain on a subject without any legitimate warrant."
Torturing for a "legitimate warrant" doesn't change the fact that it's torture.
"It is the infliction of pain for pain's own sake."
That's sadistic torture or intentional torture. I can say it's torturous to be outside in the freezing cold even though no one did that to me. I can say it's torturous for professors to give me homework (that would be an exaggeration, of course) even though their intent wasn't to torture me, but to help me learn/retain/practice knowledge and/or skills.
"Not many people with AIDS, I'm guessing."
Don't know the stats on that one. And any way, I think the best way to eradicate AIDS is prevention.
"And visa versa. It really comes down to a matter of aesthetics."
And if that is true, then aesthetics is a terrible reason to mutilate someone. And as far as the "sexual pleasure" thing neither of us is going to be able to prove it either way. Does that mean we should just take that chance?
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Date: 12/6/11 01:26 (UTC)Torturing for a "legitimate warrant" doesn't change the fact that it's torture.
"It is the infliction of pain for pain's own sake."
That's sadistic torture or intentional torture. I can say it's torturous to be outside in the freezing cold even though no one did that to me. I can say it's torturous for professors to give me homework (that would be an exaggeration, of course) even though their intent wasn't to torture me, but to help me learn/retain/practice knowledge and/or skills.
"Not many people with AIDS, I'm guessing."
Don't know the stats on that one. And any way, I think the best way to eradicate AIDS is prevention.
"And visa versa. It really comes down to a matter of aesthetics."
And if that is true, then aesthetics is a terrible reason to mutilate someone. And as far as the "sexual pleasure" thing neither of us is going to be able to prove it either way. Does that mean we should just take that chance?