*yawn*
I suppose that's one way to look at it. But in reality you can sit on your computer and critisize events all you want but at the end of the day there are people out there deciding what to do with informants who might know something about terrorist attacks. If you had one of these people in a cell and you knew he had information on an imminent terrorist attack, what would you do? And would you give a fuck about what some asshole was typing about you in his safe apartment lol?
It's a morbid, tough question. 24 will not be looked back as some indictment on American acceptance of the "torture" we may or may not be using. It's a very complicated issue in my judgement
It's not a complicated issue at all. Torturing people is inhumane, even if it can gain info that can save lives. Similar to how the death penalty is inhumane for the simple reason that it is absolutely wrong to take the life of another human being.
The answer is not nearly as clear cut to those who are actually involved in these situations.
I'm against capitol punishment - that should be left up to the higher power - but I disagree about it being absolutely wrong to take life. If you have to defend yourself - be it your life, your family's, country, etc - then of course you do what you have to do.
I was in a pretty cool sociology class not too long ago, and one of the students in the class was fresh from Iraq (dude had some of the most fucked up stories I've ever heard). As usualy some jackass tried the whole "oh yea they're just killing innocent people over there rampantly, they all are guilty, etc" and the marine raised his hand to speak and then said "sir, has a 12 year old ever pointed an AK-47 at you?" On the surface that seems like a simple statement, but it's far more complex and layered and really demonstrates just how little credibility people have when they automatically jump onto this shit and critisize. If your life is on the line and you have a second to act, you're not going to be thinking "what ifs"
