Comment on When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz

• huf@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  and it was torture before that. it would’ve been torture if the romans had done it.

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  • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It wasn’t though, “torture” was almost exclusively understood as extreme, direct physical violence intended to cause severe bodily injury or pain.

    The techniques were developed to specifically avoid being called torture.

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    • huf@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      oh that makes it so much better, that they were torture techniques deliberately and cold-bloodedly developed by the torturers to slip through a legal loophole

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      • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They were designed to not be torture. Coercive techniques were also discovered to be ineffective.

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