(October 24, 2014 at 6:10 pm)lifesagift Wrote: What do people think about torture...?
Waterboarding.. is horrible...
And then there's the position that you might get, not the truth, but the words you want to hear !!
But for me, if you have the guy who has planted bomb, can you find out where the bomb is? What if your captive has your daughter locked up in a box.. is torture right to find out where she is?
Torture is never right, under any circumstances. It is notoriously ineffective when compared to other methods of interrogation, and it puts the torturer on the moral level of the psychopath who locked a little girl up in a box.
Just as patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, so torture is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
