Originally Posted by Cynthetiq

I'm sorry to hear that. My uncle was tortured, drained of blood to transfuse to wounded Japanese soldiers, beheaded, and tossed into a mass grave. This happened because he was an insurgent providing information to the rebels and Americans during the occupation of the Philippines by the Japanese.

Still doesn't affect my choice of finding torture acceptable. I don't condone it, won't do it, but it is part of the range of what happens when humans war with each other. I don't find killing acceptable either, but yet somehow that's part of what happens in war. It's not like it is a football or baseball game. To believe that war can be civilized or pussified is some manner is folly. War isn't pleasant. It isn't flowery. It isn't nice. It sucks and there is a lot at stake.