Umberto says it better than I have, and what's more, is probably one of my favourite writers of this age. I feel he is vastly underrated. Although I should add that painless torture is possible; the pain is not necessary, but discomfort, disquietude, and potential imminent threats to innocents that the person values is. The chemicals of arousal can also be fed into the body without using the pain synapses of the nervous system. Why would people want to do this to people? Its as simple as it is psychopathic. Power.
"“There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.”
-Umberto Eco
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