Torture in the Middle East

[aerftghyjk]

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I've known about this for... a few months?

But still...

[genuine anarchist]

I am on the fence on the whole issue of torture. On one hand, it's morally wrong and using fear and violence to solve crime just doesn't work. On the other hand, I have a tendency to think torture and death eventually control population growth and help the most hardenned criminals. So I am neutral.

I'm pretty sure these have to do with primitive, religious retribution rites. Nothing against most religious followers, but hanging, an eye for an eye, flogging, and other medieval tortures make me think of a time of superstition rather than rationality.

[Absnt]

Not to mention some regimes who actually practice worse shit than that.

Acid bathes.

Burning people.

Popping kids eyes out in front of their parents to get info.

Things like that.

But sudam did all of that... and he's dead.

Also, I'd rather get shot in the head than anything. Better chances of fighting back or getting away. A firing squad would suck ass, but getting shut in the back of the head would be painless.

[Rebelnerd]

Torture is wrong for many reasons, especially in a war like the one we're fighting today.

-It's often ineffective
-It gives terrorists a valuable recruiting tool and turns prisoners into martyrs
-It loses us the moral high ground in the world's eyes
-It can produce false information
-It gives the government the power to distort the facts by manipulating the prisoner into giving the answers they want us to hear. If they wanted to, they could torture some captured Iraqi until he makes up some bullshit story about WMDs just to stop the pain.

Honestly, I really can't see how anyone who claims to support freedom can be in favor of torture. But I guess you all have the right to think what you want.

[Absnt]

You all?
Support torture?

Wat?