Is this a typo?

"at least they understood that threat of death is worse than threat of injury"

Surely you meant to write the opposite? As we've all been told, over and over again, at least since it became clear that President Bush was encouraging torture, is the old slogan "death is what you wish for when you are being tortured."

Personally, given a choice between a quick, painless death and some of the worst kinds of torture, I would always chose death. Rather death than, say, being tied tightly in a chair while someone takes some nails and a hammer and hammers the nails through my hand, or being bound so I can not move and then having rats allowed to eat my face and eyeballs.