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Originally posted by Spanky
Am I naive or is this not reasonable:
1) Rape of anyone is never acceptible in any circumstances.
2) Innocent people (non-combatants) should never be tortured.
3) Torture of prisoner combatants should be avoided whenever possible. The only possible excuse for torture is that the prisoner combatant has information that is needed immediately to prevent harm to fellow combatants or innocents and the information can only be obtained through torture.
4) If extrating information is necessary:
a) Drugs and trickory or other methods should be tried first. For example threatening to use violence or other stuff against their family. But under no circumstances should stuff like that ever happen.
b) If torture is used, the physical abuse should be kept to a minimum. In other words use sleep deprivation, ridicule and starvation.
These rules hold true no matter what the enemy is doing to our prisoners.
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Understanding that (1) the circustances you describe in #3 are exceedingly rare and (2) any information you get from torture is almost certainly wrong, I don't disagree.
