Sound investment would be to assume you continue, if you are unsure. If you continue, it would be fair to consider that there might be a higher power looking over you and your life has been as it were a test. The result of this test is a pass or fail.

As with any test, you must have always known what you should have done (conscience). Therefore, what do you need to enable your conscience?

Isn’t that the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?

Do we have that, in any stretch of the imagination?

A few of you bright people will now start to see the light!

Meanwhile FWIW my brief layman’s version of torture is, extreme pain or suffering and/or threat of imminent death. Why do it?

Objectively, there must be something it accomplishes, otherwise it wouldn’t exist. The animal world doesn’t seem to have a problem with it. My cat tortures prey all the time. As far as I can tell, he does it for entertainment or maybe a feeling of superiority.

The best I can come with is that people torture for similar reasons.

The Ministry of Culture has begun insisting that tourists visiting the country’s monuments, including the Taj Mahal, pay the entrance fees in rupees rather than in dollars. Entrance to many sites for foreign tourists is priced in dollars and then converted to rupees, but the ministry has been losing tourism revenue as the dollar slid more than 12 percent this year against the rupee. The government had fixed a $5 entrance fee for World Heritage sites like the Taj Mahal and Humayun’s Tomb and $2 for other monuments at a time when the dollar was worth about 50 rupees. It is now worth around 39 rupees. The new rate for Heritage sites is 250 rupees, meaning a foreign tourist will pay the equivalent of about $6.50.

end of hegemony.