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Ronald D. Cretlinsten contends that torturers acquire the ability to cope with the moral dilemmas of inflicting pain upon and murdering their fellow humans primarily through the processes of "routinization" and "dehumanization", and also through the notion of "authorization" (191). With such as the case, an individual adept in the art of torture would necessarily have learned to be cruel, however, that argument neglects the very reality that many engaged in such activities are intrinsically perverse, and in fact willingly and happily do harm to others.



The prevalence of torture throughout the world can be accounted for in part by the process of "routinization" in which a regime, in essence, desensitizes a given torturer to the atrocities that he is committing in its name. In such a process "what is being done to someone transforms into what is being done: information gathering" (191). The task of amassing information and confessions eclipses the reality in which the......

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