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I used to have a speech made by George on the subject of torture and his opinion of it, which included his prohibition against using it as well as his reasons for it. I'll try to dig it up for you.


Your sentence bolded above may very well be true but still have no relevance to George Washington and his opinions on the subject. Yes, military people have been using it since... forever.  Doesn't mean that George Washington did, nor does it mean that he thought it was a good idea.



Once again you have provided a false choice, you have presented a hypothetical situation that YOU made up so that there would only be YOUR chioce or the "stand by" choice. In a debate this is called "framing the discussion" and it's used in an attempt to back an opponent into a no-win corner. Another example of this technique would be to ask, "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?"


The first thing to do is to make a firm committment to never using torture and then organizing your life in such a fashion that you don't need to. Then an intelligent person or group of people would work to prevent the dire situation from developing in the first place, so that they didn't get backed into a corner where they had no good options. What is called for is "forethought".


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