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Torture is a real slippery slope. Once you engage in it, you lose any moral credability you might have had.I have heard arguments in defense of torture on the immediate battlefield, to gain quick information in order to save one's comrades.Then there is the institutinalized brutality and torture in Abu Ghraib and other prisons, as well as in the "extraordinary rendition" where prisoners are sent to other countries specifically to be tortured so the US keeps it's public hands clean. In addition, many of the people picked up in these cases were picked up in broad sweeps or with little more then hearsay justifying it. I think any information that could conceivably have been picked up is not enough to outweight the damage done to the US by these actions.Do you think there is any difference in the two sorts of torture? Is one more justifiable then the other?
Torture is a real slippery slope. Once you engage in it, you lose any moral credability you might have had.
I have heard arguments in defense of torture on the immediate battlefield, to gain quick information in order to save one's comrades.
Then there is the institutinalized brutality and torture in Abu Ghraib and other prisons, as well as in the "extraordinary rendition" where prisoners are sent to other countries specifically to be tortured so the US keeps it's public hands clean. In addition, many of the people picked up in these cases were picked up in broad sweeps or with little more then hearsay justifying it. I think any information that could conceivably have been picked up is not enough to outweight the damage done to the US by these actions.
Do you think there is any difference in the two sorts of torture? Is one more justifiable then the other?
