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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Do you think it was wrong for the North Vietnamese to torture McCain, or was it justified by the fact that they were at war and might have learned something?
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Justified has nothing to do with it. They did what they did and if it was effective it was effective.
I'd like to think we're better than that, and that we would only stoop to that level when all other techniques are exhausted.
Weigh the value of the information to be discovered (possible attacks on our soil) against the disturbing reality of having to torture someone.
You may stand on principle and say we can NEVER torture no matter what. And doing that would make the perfect the enemy of the pragmatically sensible. When I've done that in the past, you've chided me for being unrealistic. Rightly.
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