JollyRoger
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Fear makes people do amazing things, like abandon their principles. It really doesn't matter if the type of torture you choose doesn't cause any permanent damage, it's still torture.
You can't act like the bad guys and pretend to still be the good guys. You might fool yourself, but you won't fool anyone else.
Arguments will be made that torture works, and that American lives hang in the balance; but safety, security and expediency can be used to justify ANYTHING. Those who advocate such measures should go study history and see where such justifications lead. You start on that slippery slope and before you know it, the good ole US of A will be a place Mao, Stalin and Hitler would be proud to call home. These guys didn't spring into power fully formed as totalitarian dictators, they started small, with public safety measures, and exaggerated claims of some great, nebulous enemy.
You can't act like the bad guys and pretend to still be the good guys. You might fool yourself, but you won't fool anyone else.
Arguments will be made that torture works, and that American lives hang in the balance; but safety, security and expediency can be used to justify ANYTHING. Those who advocate such measures should go study history and see where such justifications lead. You start on that slippery slope and before you know it, the good ole US of A will be a place Mao, Stalin and Hitler would be proud to call home. These guys didn't spring into power fully formed as totalitarian dictators, they started small, with public safety measures, and exaggerated claims of some great, nebulous enemy.