OK, so once again...its bad to scare someone, but OK to kill someone. I think this is finally making sense....NOT. Can we make the same rules for the touchy feely, asking for the information nicely people too?
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Stroz wrote: > > But, its not OK to make me feel like I am drowning to get me to tell you > > about the same attack? > > > > The question is moot because you don't KNOW the person KNOWS; that's > why you're torturing them. > > But let's see if we can find a nexus of agreement, so how about this? > > We would agree that, say, soldiers and police and Secret Service are > volunteers. > > And we would agree that they volunteered to put their life on the line > in defense of citizens (or the President). > > So how about this? > > Just as a Secret Service person will take a bullet to save the > President, let's have the torturer make the same call: if he truly > believes that the information he'll get will save lives, then he'll be > executed for violation of law. > > In other words, the American must be so morally certain of his actions > that he's willing to die. > > That way we don't violate our ethics and principles and the great > information you claim torture will provide will be made available. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:296027 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
