Quote Originally Posted by Cloud No.9
taking orders is not an excuse. simple nuremburg principle. the defining one in fact. she performed torture not out of duty (there is not such thing) but out of self determination. she smiled for the same reason as all the other soldiers there. you can look at many other stories of abuse and torture and we can see similar patterns. the laughing and fun had by gaurds by inflicting pain on others. one story i will try and find later shows how deep this goes.
I didn't say it was an excuse. What I said was that she never claimed to be torturing for fun. That's the point. Her statements say that is was for other reasons, so to say that it was for fun is simply false.