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Originally Posted by Seer666
Torture is like assassination. A useful tool, but one that should never be stated as part of a countries doctrine. Leave it for the black op guys. To declare it as a part of your normal doctrine sets a dangerous pressidence. Use it in sparing situations in which you can claim total ignorance.
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So publicly have ethics, privately do what ever the hell you want?
Of the many, many problems I have with this logic- who gets to decide what situations require using it sparingly may be the biggest.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
like i keep saying, pan, there is alot of information missing from the story.
personally, i don't have a judgment because i don't feel like i know basic stuff about the situation. the distinction would turn on what dc said, but there's no way to know anything about that from the info we have to work with.
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Yeah, it's kind of like asking a mechanic what's wrong with your car and only telling him it doesn't work, but no details and he can't look at. Could be anything from out of gas to a blown engine, not enough data input.