The mistake you're making here is thinking about it as a value judgement about the article. It's not. The article is solid. I read it. I've been following the story.<p>It simply has <i>nothing to do</i> with what Hacker News is about, and sticking it here to maximize the number of eyeballs it gets is an abuse of the site.<p>Here's some help, if the guidelines seem fuzzy:<p><a href="http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a><p>There is nothing about this story that gratifies anyone's intellectual curiosity. Those of us who are inclined to believe stories reported in Harpers (myself included) already know about the torture problem. It isn't evidence of a new trend.<p>The rest of you reading this would be doing the site a favor if, instead of voting me up, you simply hit the "flag" button on the story.