[Skybird]

If you read carefully you see that he was not even allowed to have TV, reading materials, or anything. In his words, he was left with no way to occupy his time, while he got buried alive, as he describes the process of building the isolation cell around him. He was being made disoriented and subject of what as a psychologist I need to classify as sensory deprivation. He gave indication that the officers took personal revenge upon him. He had one hour per week of "recreation", being left in a place where to see nothing and where to do nothing.

Nothing of that is just, or a prevention of him turning aggressive again, or protecting other inmates, and having him living in the open civil society again where he poses a threat to others is something that nobody has mentioned but you. What is described in that article is: taking revenge by torturing him. You could as well chain him to a wall and fixiate him there, like they did with insane people in past centuries.

I see little, if any, difference in the wickedness of treating prisoners like this, and the crimes this prisoner has committed. There are worse things than dying, and the biblical logic of "an eye for an eye" is nothing I see as a basis for "justice" or "communal protectiun".

On war efforts, in past threads I said determination is enough, we must not seek to be cruel beyond military need. But the same is true for law enforcement. Be determined in protecting the community, okay. Cruelty is something different.

I refuse to discuss this any longer, August. Either you have what it takes to understand this from a human point of view, or you have not. To brutalise your own soul is something that serves nothing and nobody, it acchieves no justice and protects nobody.