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Originally Posted by KSigkid
I'm not saying I'm for torture...but, to be perfectly honest, I can understand the arguments for it in certain circumstances, and I know a few reasonably intelligent people (i.e. people who aren't idiots) who feel the same way.
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To be very clear, the "idiots" portion was simply in reference to the legion majority of torture proponents who promote it as just punishment for going "against America" in some way. Seriously, read any national paper's comments section on related stories, and you'll see tons of "DID THE TERRORISTS CARE ABOUT 2,000 PEOPLE ON 9/11?"-style justifications.
If reasonable people want to argue its situational effectiveness (which I've ceded) as indicative of its usefulness of a tactic, that's a completely different conversation - but these reasonable people are able to convince the throng very easily if the other side's reasonable arguments deny any situational effectiveness. Which was my main point.
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