I love some Hitchens!!!
Nobody should have the right to authorize torture. No, not even the U.S. President.
Our principles are more important than lives.
if i could save a million lives by slowly hurting some guy i think i would. i know this only happens in movies but it could happen today. I agree with torture only on extremely unique circumstances.
I'd like to torture Bill O'Reilly for a few hours.
Everybody who champions torture should question if it will ever make it to American shores. Because we're not wearing any uniform. Government has shown a great propensity to abuse power.
Agree with WTF. Look what America did to it's own Japanese CITIZENS during WW2. Now ask yourself if torture should be allowed in legislation.
I suppose the "ticking bomb" argument is a poor one, considering the immense suffering that has been caused and given that this event has never happened to our knowledge.
Suppose a ticking bomb WHERE to occur, it isn't likely, in my opinion, that anyone conducting such torture illegally, would be punished, if for example, the code to disarm a nuclear bomb could be determined by this method. Not that nuclear briefcases ever work like this outside Hollywood's fetid imagination anyway.
Hitch at his best.
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