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  • That’s kind of an absurd statement, isn’t it?

    If you murder me by shooting me in the back of the head while I’m not looking, that’s not torture.

    Obviously I still don’t want you to kill me, but… It’s still not torture, it’s a different thing, and we have different words for that… it’s murder, or killing, or slaughter.

    Please keep in mind I’m not making a moral or ethical judgement, but a definitional one. Torture is a different thing.

    If, as you say

    there’s no way to avoid torturing an animal while taking their life when they don’t want to die.

    How are you defining torture?

    Did I torture my dearly beloved pets when they had cancer or infections bad enough that I had to have them put down? No! What an odd and cruel thing that would be for me to say!

    But they still didn’t want to die, and I didn’t want them to either. That’s not torture.














  • If we’re asking what people mean when they use those descriptors, then you’re correct.

    However, literally speaking, in this context, immutable only means read-only, and atomic only means that updates are applied all-at-once or not at all (no weird in-between state if your update crashes halfway through).

    The rest of the features (rollbacks, containerization, and immutable meaning full system image updates) are typically implied, but not explicitly part of the definition.