re: #626 researchok

So you would not agree torture that might stop the carnage could ever be justified?

I would say, rather, that I am not too interested in finding special situations that might, in some very specialized hypothetical situation, justify torture.

Are there some? Sure. There’s probably some specialized situation in which a person might feel justified or coerced into doing damn near anything. But it doesn’t, to my mind, have much to do with general policy or social mores. In general, overwhelmingly, I believe that Americans do not and should not torture.

If some dude ever ends up torturing a Janjaweed field commander who know where the time bomb that will kil the assembled world scientists is or something, he can explain himself to the court, and the court can decide if his reasons were justifiable.