Killing people is not the same as torture, and is not serving the same purpose. The Firefly gang fight and kill all the time, the first episode forces a pacifi

Killing people is not the same as torture, and is not serving the same purpose. The Firefly gang fight and kill all the time, the first episode forces a pacifist (Book) to confront his objections to violence in a nontrivial moral situation. What they don't do routinely as a tactic is torture people. A better counterexample would be Jayne and the fed: "Damn, and I was gonna get me a ear, too..."