Should civilized nations use "Enhanced Interrogation" techni

[Jester]

Hi,
Hell, incarceration causes mental distress, which is damage in your standpoint. So, lets just gently (wouldn't want to offend the scum) tell murderers, rapists and thieves to behave better in the future and let them go. Bah, were did I leave my nausea meds?

I'm not saying nobody should ever do anything that causes mental distress, which appears to me your reading of what I'm saying. But don't let that stop you from getting sick over strawmen.

I'm saying that if you start by trying to establish some kind of dichotomy between allowed "non-physical" and disallowed "physical" torture, you're going to end up with a very peculiar set of norms that allows a very significant fraction of the ways people have traditionally been "tortured," including some rather horrifying ones.

-Jester