As long as it is someone else being tortured a lot of people are OK with it. When I say "somene else" I mean someone readily identifiable as "different" - in a western context that would be Muslims or Asians or random little brown people with funny accents. Doesn't matter what Amnesty International says, they're a bunch of commies anyway.
As soon as a western government starts torturing the middle classes, most of those who support torture will change their tune.
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