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Originally Posted by Bacchanal
Everyone here who wants to share their opinion on whether or not it's torture should have to perform the same experiment beforehand. Legal questions are fine, but don't say it is or isn't torture without knowing for yourself.
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Ha. Clever little empiricist, are you? Fortunately, it doesn't need to work that way. I don't have to put someone to death with my own hands before arguing against capital punishment and whether that is unnecessarily cruel.
This is a moral question, not just a technical one.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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