[...] It was said by Seneca that everything, which others deem to be bad, may change to be good for anyone, rising above it.

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Yet, if this is so, why then is torture bad? Does it not bring the tortured to virtue? [...] Does it not stregthen his will and mind, his ability to overcome pain? [...] One must notice, that it is upon the recipent of an action, to determine whether or not an action done to him is good for him. Yet, it is not necessarily upon the actor of this very same action, if this action is good for him. There are many instances, in which we discover an ambiguity. In these cases, the way the actor approaches an action determines whether or not it is done with virue or not. [...] Yet, we can discover other actions, that are always bad for a human being, that can never be done with virue. Torture is such an action.