Assertion: torture's crime | /r/HasProperty | detected
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text: Even the great St. Augustine, while deploring the plight of those judicially tortured in the attempt to force confessions, ends by reluctantly justifying this procedure as a seemingly unavoidable evil in a fallen world where crime somehow has to be detected and punished—rather like the death of innocent civilians (called “collateral damage” these days) that is inevitable even in a just war (see City of God, 19:6).