The Priory of Universal Truth

It is said that there is no pleasure without pain... and also that life without pain is life without meaning... well there seems to be plenty of people out there who will take great pleasure in giving your life meaning! Whether used as an instrument for extracting confessions, as a correctional tool, a way of prolonging an agonizing death or as simply a sick way of getting off, there is always a twisted element of the population who will give torture a go and won't find it necessary to resort to the old excuse of "I was just following orders guv." Torture is, of course, useless as a means of gaining a confession or intelligence, for people will admit to anything and go along with any random train of thought the interrogator wishes to pursue - if it makes the pain stop... unless they're into it, in which case they'll never talk.

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