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Changelog: On Torture

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albusteve11/04/2010 6:41:21 pm PDT

re: #739 yasharki

I respect everyone’s opinion who disagree with use of torture to extract vital information from one’s lethal enemy. However, it seems to me that (and my argument may be a fallacy) if it’s right, proper, and arguably honorable to pull a trigger and kill someone who’s got you in his/her sights before they do the same to you, in order to save your own and possibly other people’s lives. Why is it so wrong to exert physical force on a captured enemy during wartime, in order to gain life saving information on someone who’s been captured while waging open warfare on yourself, your family and your countrymen instead of giving them the ultimate punishment?

it isn’t, regardless of the pablum posted here