RE: Torture report
December 12, 2014 at 11:06 am
(This post was last modified: December 12, 2014 at 11:09 am by Nope.)
I can understand the desire for revenge when you see a beheading video.
The problem is that it seems that torture doesn't work and might actually cause the loss of more lives. There is also the fact that once we allow torture for one group, how do we know that our government won't slowly begin to add other groups that are worthy of torture? And how do we know for certain that the people being tortured are guilty of the crimes that they are accused?
It is not antiAmerican to hold our country up to a high standard and to point out when we fail.
Why would we want to become like the enemy that we fear? If we allow torture, doesn't that mean that we are really no better then the groups that we are torturing?
The problem is that it seems that torture doesn't work and might actually cause the loss of more lives. There is also the fact that once we allow torture for one group, how do we know that our government won't slowly begin to add other groups that are worthy of torture? And how do we know for certain that the people being tortured are guilty of the crimes that they are accused?
It is not antiAmerican to hold our country up to a high standard and to point out when we fail.
Why would we want to become like the enemy that we fear? If we allow torture, doesn't that mean that we are really no better then the groups that we are torturing?
