Custos Sophiae, I think you missed a bit of my point... They never defined torture in 'Far Beyond Normal'... so When you say:
I did mention that Buffy was rather self-deluded in this, possibly a direct side effect of her brain chemistry being altered by all those psychotropic drugs they injected her with. Come to think of it, we never did find out how much time she was tortured for did we?
I also noticed that many of you picked up on one of my other points "the woodchipper of one shot background characters". Faith was basically released in the wilds to fend for herself. More importantly (well not to Faith), Willow could have solved the "Xerox"'s main issue. Not just because she is Uber hacker, no, its because she is an outside prospective that can use the POWER of plot herself. The Uber system has been down for weeks or months, nebulous time in effect here, possibly those psychotropic drugs again. By the Cheese Scented god of Monky Spleens, it would probably end up 30% better if Willow got screen time again. I mean, without those sorcery skills to eat character creation points this Willow could probably write the entire code from scratch in a week and have it be better.
Quote:We can't actually say that about the story in question. This is, because "torture" in this case is a Gloobleflarg. It is NEVER actually defined in the story, when they are arguing over it (my main problem with it)... so 'torture' cant actually be declared wrong... because it is never defined. Only that Hammond forbid it. Which either means he had people working for him doing the kinds of things that happened to Buffy earlier, which contextually he blatantly wasn't. Or that he looked up the current legal definition of torture... and since he didn't allow that anyway he just let her have a meaningless victory... except it was pointless to have the argument in the first place in that case.
Torture is wrong, but sometimes there are no good choices left.
I did mention that Buffy was rather self-deluded in this, possibly a direct side effect of her brain chemistry being altered by all those psychotropic drugs they injected her with. Come to think of it, we never did find out how much time she was tortured for did we?
I also noticed that many of you picked up on one of my other points "the woodchipper of one shot background characters". Faith was basically released in the wilds to fend for herself. More importantly (well not to Faith), Willow could have solved the "Xerox"'s main issue. Not just because she is Uber hacker, no, its because she is an outside prospective that can use the POWER of plot herself. The Uber system has been down for weeks or months, nebulous time in effect here, possibly those psychotropic drugs again. By the Cheese Scented god of Monky Spleens, it would probably end up 30% better if Willow got screen time again. I mean, without those sorcery skills to eat character creation points this Willow could probably write the entire code from scratch in a week and have it be better.