re: #102 celticdragon

I meant it seriously.

Kilgore is pretty damned smart, and I am working out whether his opinion here is based on empirical sensibilities or an emotional attachment to the concept of “torture can work”.

He makes statements like that above which are based on his subjective understanding and are not really self evident to those he is arguing this with…so I am going with emotional attachment for the time being.

If there is a case to be made for torture, we can have that out…but we have been going over this for over 400 years, haven’t we?

I’m not 400 years old, so no. I haven’t followed this closely lately, so I’m not sure what Killgore has said, or even whether I agree with him or not. But to accuse Killgore of dismissing something because it “doesn’t work” for him is just silly, IMO. From what I’ve read of Killgore over the past several years, he almost always has good reasons - I may disagree with him, but his reasons aren’t based on something vague like “it doesn’t work for me”.