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Two Americas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-26-09 07:09 PM
Response to Reply #47
52. parsed
You said that torture might be hypothetically justified under certain conditions -

If it worked, which you claim it never does.

If it saved lives.

If the perpetrators were prosecuted.

I said that your disclaimers are all false. It does work, there is no way to know if lives were saved or not and that could always be used as a justification, and governments that authorize torture are not likely to prosecute people for it.

What we are then left with is a statement in support of torture.


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