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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
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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A ruler doesn't always have the option of acting honorably. In a perfect world, this wouldn't be an issue at all. But it's not a perfect world.
Really, let's have a show of hands here.
Who is losing sleep because someone is being tortured in a prison camp right now? There are things that go on behind the scenes that make torture seem like a walk in the park, all done to keep what ever country is doing it safe and to keep them men in power where they are. I happen to have a pretty comfortable life over all, and I'm not going to shed a few tears because some guy who wants to kill me simply because I was born here is being beat to a pulp or robbed of some food. Not to mention that many of the people saying we are torturing them are saying so just to make us look bad in the public eye, not because we are. It's part of Al-Qaeda's freaking hand book to claim tortured if they are captured to make us look bad for Gods sake.