It's a tough call Edward. What is more morally wrong? Torturing someone you know has info that will kill 1000's or doing nothing and 1000's are killed.
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It's not.
@CIA tortured people for years thinking it worked. The Senate read 6,300,000 classified CIA files—years of records—to determine if it was true. They found torture never helped. Never saved a life or stopped an attack.https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-fg-torture-report-20141210-story.html … -
Even if torture was effective—and the CIA proved it is not—torture is wrong. It is a barbarous violation of human rights, and our condemnation of it is what separates us from those we rightly call monsters. A government that tortures has no legitimacy.
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But only for citizens, not for FORRINERS ;)
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It's a war crime under the Geneva Convention.
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Yes, but when you're not officially at war, how are you going to commit war crimes? Note: I'm quite aware of this and being facetious, I do not support torture.
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We’re bombing 8 countries. What do you call it?
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the US have been not at war for how long now... decades... killing how many people...?
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We're not torturing citizens!! Think they are called "enemy combatants"!!
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Per international law, that we helped craft, torture is illegal regardless of clarification.
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You're right. Torture is a violation of human rights. US is the only developed nation that still executes ppl.
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Also a tragedy. Especially considering how many innocent people we put to death.
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The constitution does not apply to enemy combatants
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No, but it does the Geneva Convention, among otherspic.twitter.com/B8mASHLASI
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genuine question. does that apply to people who have committed atrocities and crimes against humanity such as, say, blowing up innocents in the name of religion?
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thanks. good article....
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You are welcome; and a very clarifying one
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the many stories behind terrorism and other forms of extremism
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