army1987 comments on Don't Build Fallout Shelters - Less Wrong
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It's not obvious that disutility would scale linearly with amount of torture; would you be indifferent between a 100% chance of getting a dust speck in your eye and a 1 in 34 trillion chance of being tortured for five years?
(My intuition probably doesn't work right with such small numbers, so I don't know myself.)