Dearie, I don’t know this Red fellow (he sounds distastefully monochromatic), but I am curious as to what his views are. Perhaps, if I might indulge myself by looking into the mind of the blandly-colored one (very dark!), he sees the neocortex as the source of “cognitive distortions” that can take root in the limbic system. In other words, Red may be saying that torture begins in the neocortex (i.e. thinking mind) with a misperception of our needs (i.e. That there is a “need” to follow the tribe’s wishes and torture the poor sap). Following this misperceived need, one may lose connection with the “real” desire for physical safety for all humans and engage in this torture to maintain limbic connection with the tribe.

Frankly, I believe that the torturer is residing in a place of fear maintained by authoritarian rule which fill his mind with “have-to’s” thus denying the greatest power we have a humans: free choice.

Of course, to place fault on one part of the brain or the other seems to be tantamount to blaming the length (or the width) for the area of a rectangle.

I hope you and Red are able to work out your differences without torturing each other :)

Good day,

Happily multi-hued