Prove to me you are CRAZY. That is, actually start a debate with me, that torture is ever acceptable. And please, don't start with the threadbare "ticking time-bomb" cliche. And don't tell me about TV shows where torture works, like 24.
If you are pro-torture, then:
- It is OK to wrap a towel around someone's neck, and repeatedly slam them against a cement wall. Better to put up plywood, so you don't kill them.
- It is OK to strap a person to a board and near-drown someone, 6 times a day, for a month straight.
- It is certainly OK to say you will kill a person's whole family, or torture them, including small children, if you don't get the information you want.
And the sad thing is, the methods described above were used by countries like China and North Korea, to elicit FALSE confessions, for propaganda purposes. And for revenge.
Make no mistake about this! To torture, or not to torture -- here is a place where there is no moral or ethical ambiguity on the subject. You are either against it, or for it.
If you are for it, then I am sure you wait with great anticipation for torture to come to a police station, or prison, near you, very soon. And if pro, probably you fantasize that you will be one of the torturers.
Saving the world, one broken body after another! I pity you.
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I am very passionate about this, because certain concepts (like torture) must be vigorously rejected, absolutely rejected, and those who defend it, should be admonished. This in the name of basic decency. I suppose I am with the Te of the Tao in this.
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