(November 26, 2015 at 4:44 am)Evie Wrote:(November 26, 2015 at 4:08 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I'm unsure what this has to do with the conversation at hand.
Headshots were mentioned and torture was described as sociopathic. I said both were sociopathic and posted a video displaying how sociopathic headshots can be.
But yeah, torture is the most sociopathic.
I think the two things are very different, and the comparison not very apt.
A headshot delivered in combat is a survival move that is taken to eliminate someone who is out to kill you. The shot is taken not with the intent of inflicting ongoing agony upon your opponent, but to render him dead as quickly as possible.
That is vastly different than torture, where the object is to inflict pain to the extent that the person's will is broken. Because the interrogator doesn't know the truth, there's no clear-cut definition of "successful" torture, and therefore, more often than not torture drags on long after any useful information has been gleaned -- meaning that it has become the infliction of entirely needless suffering, and quite the opposite of a headshot delivered in combat.
A sociopath may relish combat, but that doesn't mean every action taken in combat is sociopathic. Torture, on the other hand, requires a sociopath in order to have a possibility of success, because an empathetic person is far less likely to pursue torture to the extent that the prisoner's will is broken.