Assertion: torture | /r/CapableOf | debase the torturer
Facets:
value: besides degrading the victim
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Besides degrading the victim, torture debases the torturer: American advisors alarmed at torture by their South Vietnamese allies early in the Vietnam War concluded that "if a commander allowed his officers and men to fall into these vices [they] would pursue them for their own sake, for the perverse pleasure they drew from them.