Quote Originally Posted by Universal Mind View Post
I don't think any of that is torture if they have a reasonable, viable, moral way of avoiding what has been threatened. If I know where your daughter is being held captive and you put a gun to my head and tell me to tell you where your daughter is, I am not being tortured. That is because I will gladly tell you where your daughter is and, with that knowledge, I will know that I do not have to fear death or severe pain. Shooting me in the knee would be torture. Threatening to shoot me in the knee if I don't do something I can do and should do any way is not torture. It is not severe pain. It is the threat of severe pain in a situation where I can easily avoid the severe pain by doing what I morally should do.
Assuming that you know where my daughter was and then stripping you naked, throwing you in a Burger King freezer and dumping ice water on you every five minutes to get information that you might not even have, for an untold length of time (remember, you are assuming that all of these people being interrogated actually have the information), would be torture.