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Because you have someone not fighting, but capture. Someone without the ability to defend or even try. You have to get another human being to inflict on another in a systematic and cruel way. It's more deliberate. It's more harmful to both the tortured and the person doing the torturing. It lasts with people far more than battle.
And again, no one is prevented from dying. No evidence of that claim has been presented. It's a myth some simply want to believe.
Once again, as even you yourself acknowledged, in modern combat most of the people "killed in battle" are utterly helpless and defenseless as well.
I suppose you are right that something lasts "far more than battle", because virtually all of the people the U.S. hurt lived through it.
And from the report everyone is talking about, ONE person in U.S. custody is referred to as dying.
Do you really think that someone who is waterboarded suffers more than a guy in an SUV hit by a Hellfire missile? Or that the guy in the SVU is any less helpless when killed by a missile he can't see fired from a drone he has no idea is there than a guy strapped down in a prison?