Damned Republicunts

[Edwardo Piet]

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.

Lol I was joking around I wasn't being serious.

For what it's worth I agree with you, if it's just a matter of survival a headshot is not remotely sociopathic, it is instinct. However if it was done purely for fun that would be sociopathic. I know we're not talking about that, but basically I'm saying I don't think it's the act itself that makes it socipathic. But I think that goes for torture too.

As for torture I think it's done out of fear and if it's a survival instinct at all it's only on a much higher level - it's paranoia basically.

It definitely can be sociopathic, but so in the right contexts can a headshot. But I think it's more likely survival intinct of the higher more paranoid kind like the paranoia of "If we don't torture them more of us might die, and that might include myself or my loved ones." - it's totally irrational and unjustified and highly immoral, but I don't think either torture or headshots are sociopathic unless the context is specific so it's not done out of fear or paranoia of some sort.

For the record: I am completely against all forms of torture regardless of the situation and not just because it doesn't work as a method of interrogation: even if it did work I would be against it 100%.