In each case the experimental group estimated the interrogation tactics to be significantly more painful , less ethical , and less acceptable as a practice than participants who made their judgments free of pain , as policymakers normally would . Three GOP presidential candidates say this is not a form of torture . So which is it : Illicit torture or an acceptable interrogation practice ? asks John Nordgren . Nordgren : People who do n't experience something ca n't know just how painful it is . People who have to undergo it see it as torture , Nordgren says .
Three GOP presidential candidates say this is not a form of torture . So which is it : Illicit torture or an acceptable interrogation practice ? asks John Nordgren . Nordgren : People who do n't experience something ca n't know just how painful it is . People who have to undergo it see it as torture , Nordgren says .