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°.
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.
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?
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.