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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 12:46 PM Original message |
I take it back - the Jack Bauer scenario is real - and it is happening |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
1. You're forgetting 1 point |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 12:53 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. After a while, I think the torturers stop caring whatever the context. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 12:50 PM Response to Original message |
2. Lets say the insurgents capture a U.S. troop... |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
3. You don't support torture. |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
4. If it is worth torturing someone, then it is worth going to jail for doing the torture. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 12:57 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Except in the US, the torturers rarely go to jail. |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 01:01 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. THAT needs to changed. n/t |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 12:57 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Yep. That's the ethical response. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
6. Insane. My answer to the Russert 'hypothetical' is ... |
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Fovea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 01:11 PM Response to Original message |
10. What do you do with the soldiers who committed torture when they come home? |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
11. Torture is intimidation of populations, not information gathering. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 01:52 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. You can be tortured in to a confession, or as George Orwell taught us, |
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