lad

I’m a bit afraid to rely on common sense or regulations being reasonable, but yes, we never reached the bottom yet

If you define it by intent, then the same action performed by different people may be and not be torture. This makes it pretty hard to define, and it becomes completely subjective after that.

For instance, I don’t think it is possible to torture an inanimate object, thus I never have an intent of causing suffer to one. Sometimes I want to break an object, and by your definition it will not be torture however I do that

A rock is almost like a tortoise in disguise