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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (482794)5/22/2009 1:57:24 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1576111
 
Torture is also an ordinary word. And its a word with different legal definitions.

As a common English word, the examples I gave "keeping someone awake all night in order to try to get them to talk", and "slapping someone once because he threw feces at a guard" (note one night, and one slap) are not torture. Thus if the law defines them as torture the law in question is using an overly broad definition and calling something torture that isn't.

Which isn't to say the current controversy is about single slaps, only that the definition you provided was overly broad and thus a poor one.

If we passed a law that said verbal sexual harassment was rape, then it might be prosecuted as rape, but it wouldn't actually be rape. The same applies to torture.
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