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Not only do most people not consider depriving a day's rations to be torture, I highly doubt it is an effective means of getting information from a hostile POW. I think we can skip all that and get to the point where we are causing people discomfort and pain - mental or physical.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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