"The American Medical Association and the Red Cross both condemn force-feeding as a form of torture. And yet, the U.S.…"

"If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of th…"

"RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living …"

"I was kept awake for many days straight. I was forced to remain in painful positions for hours at a time. These are t…"

"If everyone could feel everyone else’s pain, who would torture?"

"Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number …"

"Question: Films like Funny Games (2007 films) have a strong streak of sadism in them, with psychological as well as p…"

"I want to make sure that if my government ever does this horrible, terrible, extraordinary thing, that somebody takes…"

"Each local Cheka had its own speciality. In Kharkov they went in for the ‘glove trick’ — burning the victim’s hands i…"

"Torture, encouraged from above, became a fact of life [in occupied Iraq]. Perhaps some good liberal apologist for Bla…"