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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet

May 22, 2009 - 3:49 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2009-05-22 22:41:28

Now let’s try and talk about the hardest subject of all. What is torture?

Perhaps I am amoral, but I don’t really care what is or isn’t torture. I care about who is being tortured. If there’s little doubt that the prisoner is complicit in terrorism and may have useful information, I’m okay with pretty much any technique that is likely to extract accurate information (pure sadism though is out).