re: #377 Talking Point Detective

I don’t think you need to get into the psychology of effeminancy and all of that; what I was saying is that people have a quite natural revulsion towards people they think are evil, and so they want bad things to happen to them, and not good things. And so giving prisoners some freedom, letting them play chess and ping-pong, giving them nice things to eat, all of that makes people angry even if it produces a good end result. And torture, even though if they thought about it hard they’d realize it corrupts and undermines the rule of law as well as being ineffective, seems good because it’s doing something Bad to someone who is Bad.