Different people are going to think different things are cruel. I know parents who think putting their kids in timeout is cruel. Whatever. There
is gray area, but that gray area doesn't begin until well past the point of known torture methods that were designed to be unbearable and frighteningly cruel.
Surely even you, mubs, can understand why, if the aim of a punishment is execution, stoning is an excessively cruel method with which to do it. Like many ancient punishments, it was
designed to be that way. To inflict enormous physical pain in addition to the execution. To be torture and execution rolled up into one. Did you really need that explained to you? I think not.
By the way, the UN does not agree that such stoning cases are 'torture'
Torture, according to the 1984 United Nations Convention Against Torture
"It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in, or incidental to, lawful sanctions"
Let me remind you that the stoning law is in effect in many countres that have good relations with the UK.
Tried a couple times before to shut this down. I'm not interested in you discussing the United Nations' history and criticisms with me. I don't even care. The reason I brought their document into this was that I had already spent too much time on you, and I was hoping for a way to cut corners by referring you to a pretty decent list of human rights instead of just writing up my own. Apparently I
should have just paraphrased the key points from the start, because you've demonstrated that you're very much incapable of staying on subject, and bringing the United Nations into it gives you more room to squirm around in and more places to flee to instead of just answering the question at hand.
So please, take off your political science hat and go back up in the ivory tower so we can finally get to the bottom of whether or not you think that it is better that women in India and similar areas should be murdered for witchcraft because the alternative (protecting them) is too damaging to the culture and therefore not worth it.