(January 4, 2016 at 1:22 pm)Pony Wrote:

(January 4, 2016 at 1:19 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: I watched Casino Royale with my brother. Didn't like it at all, he did though.

Still slightly better than Spectre. I wouldn't even recommend you waste your time with that one.

Lol, I wouldn't watch another James Bond movie if you tortured me.

Real genuine torture is horrible.

(January 4, 2016 at 3:43 pm)Evie Wrote: Real genuine torture is horrible.

True story brah. Why confuz?

(January 4, 2016 at 4:11 pm)Evie Wrote: True story brah. Why confuz?

It just seemed like such a random thing to say, I guess.

It was in response to you mentioning torture. I used it as an opportunity to state the obvious.

Obvious but true and accurate. It was the true and accurate part I was going for.

Also, despite obvious... some people actual think real genuine torture is justifiable in some situations, I don't.

I think it could be hypothetically justifiable in some situations, but only as a last resort. I'm sure we can come up with better ways to make someone tell the truth or otherwise retrieve information from them without hurting them, though. I'll list some, off the top of my head. Questioning done by a body language expert could help. Scanning the brain or going the pharmaceutical route as well, although I'm not as sure about those two being so advanced as yet. But if, say, you find yourself in a situation where you're left no choice but to torture someone in order to save numerous lives and you have at least some shred of reason or evidence to believe they have the information you need from them and there's no time to do anything else, then yes. As terrible as doing that to a human being is, multiple others dying because of one person's silence on the matter is far worse. It doesn't even have to be about multiple people though, and they don't even have to die. Even if it's just one innocent person having to suffer more or as much as the presumably guilty one because of the later one's lack of cooperation, then I would approve torture in that case as well, but my demand for evidence would increase accordingly(substantially to say the least). The more people in danger we're talking about, and the higher the degree of the danger, the less evidence I would need to approve of it, but I would still need some, obviously.

This is all hypothetical, though, of course, and am sure doesn't describe what the issues regarding torture currently are.

There's also the question of whether torture actually works or not, of course, which I'm not exactly the person to talk to about. I would need to know it works though, before I could ever think of going through with it as described in the above hypotheticals. 'Cause if it didn't it wouldn't serve any purpose, obviously.

Last movie I watched was still the Princess Bride.

Someone truly awesome bought it for me, and it was a truly awesome movie: just not as awesome as the person who bought it me

(January 4, 2016 at 12:47 pm)Pony Wrote: Spectre, watched it basically as soon as it came out. Was a fucking terrible movie.

Elaborate, I'm curious!