Re: Reopening the Torture Debate
Yes to the torture. Yes to the law change, but only with restrictions such as requiring the governor's explicit consent and subject to post judicial/public review with years of jail time for erring. The justification is that life vs life situations, where one person was the direct cause of the threat of another, allows very wide moral boundaries. It's similar in self defence - if 4 guys attack me with knives when I'm unarmed, I can pretty much [censored] them up however I please in the course of the fighting.
I realize this opens up a whole can of worms as I'm generally opposed to torture. I'd also say no to the torture in Iraq.
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