Remember folks, "Prohibition never works." Making torture illegal only compounds its horrors. It should be conducted openly, above-board, with appropriate rules and regulations and a suitable pay scale and union representation for victims. Torturers, released from the burden of skulking secrecy and low social status, will suddenly treat their victims with more respect and stop getting off on hurting other people. Or, heck, possibly many people will volunteer to be victims once the arbitrary and unreasonable social stigma of being stripped, beaten, bound, sodomised, made to perform or emulate fellatio, pissed/wanked on, sleep-deprived and generally insulted -- and photographed or filmed during all of the above -- has been lifted.
Torturers and torturees will be able to sell and trade their photo and video records of torture sessions openly and freely instead of clandestinely, and shares can be sold in the torturetainment business -- thus subjecting it to shareholder oversight and market discipline. That will make it all OK.
And pigs will fly :-)
[sigh] The difference between theory and practise in practise ...
My own version of utopia is an anarchist paradise populated by responsible individuals. The problem is, human beins are not responsible. tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
There's a reason why indifference should have been one of the seven sins.
