Torture isn't the point of the erasing in the article. The point was to hide the crime by erasing all memory of it.
I then wondered about the threat of erasing as a torture technique. Ursula, just now reading your CNN article about memory.My favourite part is the luxury of having a nomenclator to supply you with the names of people you meet...
Julie Krueger wrote:
And how does that, then, make it "torture"?
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