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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
...I'm happy to live with approving torture. War isn't about ettiquette and doing things right. It's about being the last man standing.
War isn't civil. It's not meant to be, trying to make it so is stupid by itself.
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Do you have any limits, or would you advocate exempting the US from the provisions of the Geneva conventions....?
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"We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips as well" ~ Robert H. Jackson, chief United States prosecutor Nuremberg 1946
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Who do you cede the authority to, to determine when it is appropriate "to torture", and to what degree. When they do it, they say they do it in your name.
What are your principles, what do you stand for, if you can use "happy" associated with the practice of torture ? Do you really believe they would only use it on "the bad people"? Who determines who the bad people are, and by what standard of evidence or collection of evidence?