I've always thought of torture as being a physical thing - starvation, beating, carving people up, etc. Or else being forced to watch your family or fellow soldiers being beat up, etc.
Something to think about: are humiliation and torture the same thing?
You are a recently captured insurgent. You are forced to stand naked, with electrodes clipped to your nipples. Before you get too turned on, realize that this is an exceptionally common, exceptionally cheap, and occasionally fatal method of torture: put 110/220 across someone's heart repeatedly until they talk. It's particularly common in places where they have electricity.
Is it torture to blindfold someone and hold a knife to their throat? The important part of torture isn't physical, anyway. You hurt after soccer practice. You hurt after running five miles. (you do if you're me, anyway). You hurt when you fall off your bike and scrape your knee. No, the most effective part of torture is the mental aspect.
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anonymous
October 20 2005, 20:43:15 UTC
You know, maybe I've been desensitized with all of the media coverage of this, but personally, I think they should have let her off scott free. Our guys and gals go over there and have to worry from day to day about whether they're going to even get to come home - who do you trust over there? There's no way to know whether the man, woman, or child walking up to you is carrying a bomb or a gun... and if you get ambushed? Well, you're body isn't worth sending home. Yet we're worried because Achmed had to deal with a little humiliation. In my opinion, they're getting nowhere near what they should. We're taught to "roll over" and put up with the damage they inflict, yet we're NEVER supposed to inflict any of our own. It's sort of a one way street, wouldn't you think?
Re: A small comparison...dejaflynnOctober 20 2005, 22:25:42 UTC
I've got the keys to my fiance's journal while he's away at BMT. I haven't read enough on the situation. Too busy trying to graduate college. Did she violate the UCMJ or is she just a fall-girl?
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You are a recently captured insurgent. You are forced to stand naked, with electrodes clipped to your nipples. Before you get too turned on, realize that this is an exceptionally common, exceptionally cheap, and occasionally fatal method of torture: put 110/220 across someone's heart repeatedly until they talk. It's particularly common in places where they have electricity.
Is it torture to blindfold someone and hold a knife to their throat? The important part of torture isn't physical, anyway. You hurt after soccer practice. You hurt after running five miles. (you do if you're me, anyway). You hurt when you fall off your bike and scrape your knee. No, the most effective part of torture is the mental aspect.
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