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Torturable

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Tor´tur`a`ble
a.1.Capable of being tortured.
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It is certainly easier to torture if you understand that none of your comrades will turn you in for it and if the victim is from that segment of the population, demonized, dehumanized and beyond the pale of our compassion, that makes up the torturable class.
Up for it: monsters or ordinary people - who are the torturers? by Conroy, John / New Internationalist
 
 
 
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