Joe Carter has written an excellent post on torture, pacifism, and the moral legitimacy of “enhanced interrogation.”
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yes that was an effective demolition of yet another stupid, stupid person advocating torture.
“matryoshka doll of false choices”= a great line
The calls for torturing the “Xmas Bomber” are so depressing.
As if Al Queda is stupid enough to give details of future operations to a man who isn’t involved in them and doesn’t have any need to know them (not least since he is planning on dying in THIS operation) .
Why are those calls for torture so depressing?
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