torture, n.All

IN WWII, after their bomber crashed in Japan in 1945, eight American Airmen were taken to Kyushu University Medical School and dissected alive.

Treadmills used to be torture devices

Torture is an argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth.

Torture is a 'natural slavery,' a 'living death,' a kind of 'anti-life.' it inverts, at the highest level of intensity, the very principle of human dignity in social relations.

Torture 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.

Torture is any systematic infliction of acute physical pain, physical exhaustion (endangering the health of a person), or mental suffering (which could lead to severe physical damage)... or use of chemical, drugs or other natural or artificial means aiming at bending the victim's will.

Torture is also the use of rape and other forms of sexual violence by a person acting under color of law upon another person under his custody or physical control.

Torture is a barbarically nonsensical way of discovering truth in that it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

Torture is a kind of sovereignty, the ability to reduce a person so entirely to a body and a whimpering prey of death a God or, at least, a demiGod.

Torture is anti-liberal in that it constitutes a self-betrayal of the victim whereby it forces him 'into the position of colluding against himself through his own affects and emotions, so that he experiences himself simultaneously powerless and yet actively complicit in his own violation.