\> > > torturer is walking in the woods
the woods is beautiful and torturer wants to experience this beauty
but his expert skill is torture :/ so the woods is not very safe with him walking through it.
he habitually thinks of ways of doing things that utilize extreme suffering of other beings.
[unsure whether to skip cut to torturer buying carton of milk by sadistically coercing passersby
this is actually harder for torturer's friends and acquaintances than it is for torturer
what is hard for torturer is leveling and talking about it which involves processing his own experiences
but the business has been through a lot now. they have tools for processing these things.
they know (a) that torturer's skillset is still useful if they can reach the people needing and valuing it in legal and moral situations (b) that torturer can recover or change if he desires, and learn a new skillset [especially if human enhancement training is used (c) that there are ways of holding, processing, and moving beyond torturer's experiences of torture that stimulate his behavior (d) that these behaviors do not make torturer himself inherently evil; that he has a self and a soul underneath his training/torture-based programming
<torturer is happily enjoying the words, whistling while ripping things to shreds--capturing anima--