Tyrannical said:
You can also argue that it is effective and morally right. The needs of the many (the lives saved by averting a terrorist attack) out way the needs of the few (the terrorist being tortured). You could also further argue that sacrficing the rights of the unjust terrorists saves the lives of completely innocent people that were in no way involved with the torture. |
So doesn't that argument justify what the terrorists are doing too? They are looking out for their religion and there interests. They kill a few Americans and are able to justify it in the name of Islam as a whole.
I find it very ironic that supporters of the political party who claim to be the "Christian" party make these kinds of arguments.
Who would Jesus torture? Who would Jesus bomb? Who would Jesus invade?
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
