In response to Lauren’s question, “Do you think that wanting to torture others is in our nature?”

Unfortunately I think it is a part of our human nature to want to torture others. But lucky I think it is something that is suppressed in the background until it is triggered by something. The reason I think this is because some people get violent for different reasons and for some of us it takes a lot before we actually become violent enough to inflict physical harm on someone else. I suppose it could kind of be consider a survival technique that we all have available to us if we needed it.

Question:

With torture in mind how do you classify self-defense??