> Scott wrote: > You feel torture is morally repugnant yet would be willing to kill someone > who committed the act. Seems a bit hypocritical to me.
NOT prosecuting is hypocritical. You are either a principled moral nation or you are not. You either enforce the law or you do not. The severity of the penalty should be proportional to your value of the depth of the crime. The United States will either come through this challenge a moral principled nation that makes no compromise on principle or it will whine about difficult circumstances and head into moral decline and erosion. I agree with Regan on this: there no "grey" area and no compromise. But, if someone feels torture is absolutely necessary, then they should have the courage to jump on the grenade, and we should have the courage to prosecute them for it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:296083 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
