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THE OTHER SIDE

Actually, I am not sure that it is the other side.

I mean the rationale for torture. Specifically water boarding and stress positions.

Soft torture.

I agree with a good deal of what this guy says.

Why We Torture

On the other hand, I don't want shit happening in secret in my name.

If there is to be another set of guidelines then I think that they should not need to be lied about..

Look.

Everyone knows we do this stuff. Everyone knows that 'they' do it too.

There is a line and I don't know where it is.

Do I think that they should be torturing people? No.

Am I glad they did?

Sometimes.

I happen to know that there are instances where a twist of the nuts and a little extended pain led to someone spilling the beans.

What a surprise. An ambiguous moral position in an immoral or amoral world.

This is why I don't write about torture in this blog.

I think that there is a lot of immoral shit that is done and it is not ambiguous. Pollution. Cruelty to kids and pets and adults who are incarcerated—enemy combatants or not. Some politicians. Some parts of the military industrial complex and so on.

It is like they say about pornography. I know it when I see it.

And I don't always see it about torture.

I do see it about the lying about it and when it is simply harassment and stupid besides and without any purpose on people caught up innocently.

All that.

Not clean cut at all.

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