I really found this first half of the book to be really interesting. I think that Dayan really brings up some ideas and theory that I'd never thought about before. When does something become torture? There is the civil, social, and soul deaths. When do we start to take account for these results from penal life and other forms of punishment?
I also find it very intriguing that we have been giving rights to things which are not tangible or cannot be proven real, while those who are physically here and solid are losing rights. This slowly creeps into the aspect of the abortion issue. Do we give a fetus rights even thought they are not yet truly here? When do they get rights as a person, etc.? Dayan defines victimization as taking place when the "banishment, torments and loss equally shared by all personalities whether animals, humans, gods, or ghosts."
My overall question I'm left thinking is: When do we look at the law and decide to lightly interpret vs. when we follow it strictly? We interpret the law in ways that are for our benefit and sometimes to make things at a disadvantage for others. Is that a form of torture? Seeing as the end result may be life in prison which could possible be sentencing a person to a "soul death"?
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