|
I recently voiced my opposition to torture and got "but they're terrorists!" as a response. I think that a lot of people are comfortable with torture because 1) they don't have a problem with doing bad things to bad people, 2) they don't believe that the government is likely to label an innocent person as a terrorist, and 3) they believe that even if there's only a small chance of getting useful information, it's still the best/only way to get that information. The mentality is "We're being attacked and we must do whatever is necessary to defend ourselves. It's us or them."
__________________
And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.
|