(THREAD ON TORTURE) Yes, waterboarding is torture. US convicted Japanese soldiers of war crimes for waterboarding in WWII. Watch video of it (not recommended)--it's obviously torture. But no, torture's not "entirely unreliable." Torture opponents should stop saying so. Here's why https://twitter.com/DocPeteyJ/status/974044222071259136 …
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Some professional interrogators say this psychological torture yields info better or more quickly than non-torture techniques. Others strongly disagree. Scientifically, it's impossible to answer. Can't run an experiment with a control group. 6/x
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The reason not to torture isn't because the technique always fails. It's because it's wrong. Deeply, morally, inhumanely wrong. 7/x
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"Torture never works" is the wrong argument to make. It's illogical, countered by many interrogators who have used torture, and, ultimately too easy. If the moral and the practical line up perfectly, there's no debate. But there is a debate, because they don't. 8/x
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Don't torture, even if it works. We're better than that. We have to be. We'll find another way. That accepts an element of risk: What if we don't torture and then there's a terrorist attack? We didn't do absolutely everything. Right. That's what makes it a moral argument. (END)
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