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nonsense. Locking someone in a cell and keeping them awake for the purpose if inflicting suffering is torture. Making noise so that someone in the freedom of t
by s1artibartfast 2y ago
nonsense.
Locking someone in a cell and keeping them awake for the purpose if inflicting suffering is torture. Making noise so that someone in the freedom of their own home has to put ear plugs in is not.
conflating them ignores the clear differences and stretches the meaning of the word. You might as well say an ice cream display in the super market is torture.
- CamperBob2 2y ago[flagged]
- s1artibartfast 2y agono, the translation is that something can be bad, but not everything bad is literal torture.
- dang 2y agoPlease don't break the HN guidelines like this, and please don't perpetuate flamewars. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (Yes, the other commenter was also breaking the site guidelines and I've responded to them elsewhere.)