• Eheran@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That is crazy hot. And obviously very bad. I don’t know the right term for that (negligence?), but it is not torture, just like with the child in the car. Torture is with intent to get something etc., this here are “simply” shitty people that risk the health of others to… save money?

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      1 year ago

      Torture, says the Oxford dictionary, is “the action or practice of inflicting severe pain or suffering on someone as a punishment or in order to force them to do or say something.”

      Your argument, then, is that since the prisoners would be confined in the same cells even on a cool spring morning, it’s not ‘torture’ to confine them there when it’s 145°.

      Is that where you stand?

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        1 year ago

        Using the term torture for something that is negligence would strip all meaning of actual torture. Actual torture is on a whole different level. That is what I am trying to say. That does not mean that this negligence is without consequences or harmless.