Originally Posted by filtherton

Whenever I see this thread, I think to myself "Should the United States of America gang rape people?"

And then I think that there are some people who would have no problem, if we, as a country, enacted a policy to engage in the selective gang raping of certain people who might possibly have useful information. We would probably have to use some sort of euphemism for "gang rape", though. Perhaps "coercive intrusion".

In any case, It's a tough call. On the one hand, there is that ultimate torture-porn wet dream of a situation where we just gotta torture some dude because he knows about a bomb that's supposed to go off in an hour. On the other hand, there's that guy that's completely innocent, who gets caught at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and ends up naked in a man-pyramid with some hick soldier, cigarette hanging out of her slack jaw, giving a sociopathic thumbs up in the foreground.

It's tricky. I imagine most of the people who like the idea of torturing think of it in the Jack Bauer context, while most of the people who've actually been tortured think of it in the Uday Hussein rape-room context.