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Good Thoughts on Torture

Good post.  I've never opposed torture.  It has its uses.  It was just bothersome to hear hacks claim that water boarding wasn't torture.  I've always said, "Yeah, water boarding is torture.  So what?"  If you know a guilty person has information that would save an innocent party, then the decision to torture is easy.  Why should we spare a guilty party pain?  It really doesn't make any sense.  Unless you want to say that we can't make moral determinations of guilt or innocence - which is really the only way to justify prohibitions against torture.  Yet people who criticize torture try doing so by taking some moral high ground.  If there is no morality, then there is no moral high ground to attack from.  So you really can't have it both ways...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on April 21, 2009 (boomark / email).