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is a perverse intimacy between torturer and victim. It is intimacy transformed into its inverse image the torturer focuses with the intensity of a lover, except .At bottom all torture is rape, and all rape is tyranny. 'Torture is a microcosm (raised to the highest level of intensity) of the tyrannical political relationships that liberalism hates the most.

The answer lies in the relationship between torturer and victim,' that is, 'a torturer, who inflicts pain one-on-one, up close and personal to tyrannize and dominate the victim. The relationship becomes a perverse parody of friendship Intimacy transformed into its inverse image the torturer focuses with the intensity of a lover, except .At bottom all torture is rape, and all rape is tyranny' (39). Says Luban, 'Torture is a microcosm (raised to the highest level of intensity) of the tyrannical political relationships that liberalism hates the most'(39).12

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