re: #270 Tigger2005

You did not read my post at all. I never said it was OK. I said it was ridiculous to say we are “just as bad” as the Nazis or Imperial Japanese for doing it.

I ask you. Do you think we were just as bad as the Nazis and Imperial Japanese, for what we did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

For that matter. Do you think torturing a known terrorist believed to possess actionable intelligence on a massive terrorist plot against a civilian target is just as evil as rousting Jewish families out of bed in the middle of the night and sending the children and old men off to the “showers?”

I am not saying it’s “OK.” I’m saying making that kind of comparison does not help matters. People are less likely to admit they did something morally wrong, and change their minds about it, when they’re basically told they’re the spiritual offspring of Josef Mengele. That makes them angry and defensive.