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Changelog: On Torture

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)11/04/2010 3:42:03 pm PDT

re: #312 celticdragon

It does make us better. Very much so.

We didn’t set out to commit genocide against a race. We didn’t industrialize a process to do that. We didn’t rationalize it in a thousand different ways.

It is terrible that we tortured. But there is no comparison between us and the Nazis, any more than there is a comparison between Lincoln, as someone who made some iffy constitutional moves, and Hitler.