34 Part I: Recognition and usage • Compensation aimed at providing material redress for material damage and for all manifestations of damage that cannot be remedied through other actions. This is a depiction of the inter-relatedness of diverse principles, rules and actions. The dynamism between all these forces derives, however, from a single source of energy: the conviction that torture is intolerable and must be eradicated. In this respect, the first and principal obligation of the state, the foundation for prevention, protection and redress, is to underline the abhorrent nature of torture, and not to attempt to legitimise it by any means.