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Reply #189: I think your definition broadens "torture" beyond a useful point. [View All]

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Raskolnik

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Tue Dec-12-06 10:22 PM
Response to Reply #162

189. I think your definition broadens "torture" beyond a useful point.

Prison is meant to be, at least in part, a punishment. I think the state can legitimately punish people for breaking the social contract. I do not think that a humanely run prison, in which prisoners' human rights are respected, constitutes "torture".

Given that you consider imprisonment to be torture, do you think that the state may ever legitimately imprison someone?

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