Its a trick question, Politician family, I simply don’t care. Now the nice lady down at the gas station, we can talk. Yes, seriously.
Failure to define terms.
Harsh treatment runs from being impolite to hot irons and all that. At some point it crosses a line into torture.
Anyone who argues about “torture” without bothering to state where on the spectrum they place that line should not be taken seriously. They are not trying to argue for a better policy, they are simply grandstanding moralistically.
BTW, since they portray this ias a moral issue, where are all the people who claim “we can’t legislate morality?”