Originally Posted by roachboy

ustwo--your scenario was idiotic.
no-one is "trapped" by an idiotic scenario except, perhaps, an idiot.

pan: the definition of torture is a legal matter, mostly.
when i have a bit more time (if someone else doesn't do it) i could--or you could for that matter--gather the various geneva conventions that outlaw it, the various treaties that outlaw it and derive definitions from there.
it is not as though there is no working definition of the term.
i just don't have the time at the moment to do research for you that you could do yourself perfectly well and as easily as i could.