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Originally Posted by m42
My stance doesn't vascillate by the week.  |
Not yours. Sorry if you thought I implied that.
I was speaking about the collective "us" in the West.
We go after torturous villains and often use torture to do it. Makes little sense to me.
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Originally Posted by John Scott
If a person knows about terrorist activities that put innocent people in harm's way, and refuses to disclose that information, I'd torture him. Is it torture? Yes. Why debate that? Call it torture. Call it gruesome. Call it barbaric. I'd gruesomely and barbarically torture the person until he divulged the information.
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How would you justify that? (Not to me or anyone else, but to yourself)
How would you become at peace with that, or would that never happen?
And how do you feel, about getting faulty information? It's been shown that if you torture someone long enough, they will say whatever you want them to say or whatever they think you want them to say.
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Originally Posted by John Scott
I don't think that people should be tortured in fishing expeditions, though. Torturing somebody just to find out what they know is going too far.
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The problem with torture is that it's often very difficult to tell what a person knows, or even if they might know enough to help you, before the torture begins.