But equally during the period a person is being tortured (and in some cases thereafter ) the person 's world is almost entirely taken up by extreme pain and their asymmetrical power relationship to the torturer , i .e . the torture victim 's powerlessness . Indeed , given the extreme suffering being experienced and the consequent loss of autonomy , the victim would presumably rather be dead than alive during that period . So , as already noted , torture is a very great evil . However , it does...











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