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He thinks when someone breaks, fear, not pain is what does it.
他認為一個人不是由于痛苦而是由于恐懼才崩潰
McCoys chapter on the history of torture takes up two 20th century innovations in breaking people.
McCoys所寫的酷刑史也提到了兩個20世紀發明的讓人崩潰的辦法
Found through research by psychologist funded by the US government to come up with improved interrogation technics.
這是美國政府出資心理學家通過研究所想到的改善過的審問辦法
One innovation was called 'self-inflicted' suffering.
一種叫做自己造成的痛苦
This enlists the interrogees will as in stress positions.
讓受審者處于極大的壓力環境下
The other was sensory deprivation as in putting or severe isolation.
另一種叫做感官剝奪將受審者完全地隔離起來
If the new techniques are less painful during interrogation than the classic ones they are comparably stressful.
如果說這些新的技巧相比于那些老方法帶來的痛苦更少他們帶給受審者的壓力卻是同等的
Pain is not always the most effective source of stress.
痛苦并非總是最有效的壓力來源
If stress both does the work in interrogation and produces long range harms incidental to tortures end,
如果壓力在兩種審問中都有效并且造成長期的傷害
stress is morally more basic than pain and a perspicuous definition should substitute stress for pain.
那么從道德上說壓力比痛苦更基本清晰的酷刑定義中就應當將痛苦替換為
Truth serum would still not be torture however objectionable in other ways.
壓力不管如何有異議吐真劑不能算作是酷刑
But the other new interrogation methods would be.
但是其它的新型審訊方法就能算是
The advantage of the new methods is that although they are as harmful as the old ones, they are less apt to leave marks,
新方法的優勢在于盡管它們和老方法一樣造成傷害但它們
at least the kind that tell tales, which is important to plausible deniability.
不那么容易留下痕跡至少不是那種一看便知的這就有利于審訊者否認施加酷刑
Stress lasting beyond interrogation is called the aftermath.
審問之外持續的壓力就叫做余波
Yet victims experience it as continuous with the torture.
受害者在酷刑中會持續感受到
The sister Diana Ortiz tortured in Guatemala around 1989 says, 'we are never healed from the torture but it most learns to cope with the aftermath.
1989年左右在危地馬拉遭到酷刑的Diana Ortiz說過我們從來都沒有從酷刑中恢復過來最重要的是要處理酷刑帶來的后果
