tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22302193.post3389343862628099205..comments2023-11-03T06:24:23.301-04:00Comments on The World As I See It.: Bill O'Reilly Answers My Mail...And Takes It Out Of ContextThe Flamingohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496635650219254434noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22302193.post-2804521122329105052007-11-10T17:05:00.000-05:002007-11-10T17:05:00.000-05:00Sam Harris provides an interesting defense of tort...Sam Harris provides an interesting defense of torture in his book "The End of Faith", you may be familiar with it. He ends it, however, by acknowledging that our moral problem with torture doesn't really come from logic. If there is even a small chance that the torturing of a known terrorist would save lives, shouldn't we allow it? I'm not so sure.<BR/><BR/>Most everyone who knows anything about the subject (I'm not one of them) seems to say that physical pain as torture is unreliable and counter-productive. There was a saying I came across a few times that said something like "The strong will resist and the weak will say anything to stop the pain."<BR/><BR/>My problem with torture is that it implies that in order to defeat the terrorists, we have to become a little bit like them. I don't think the War on Terror will be won with machine guns. If we become what the terrorists portray us to their youth as, we help their cause.<BR/><BR/>I also think that the War on Terror will be won by the internet and the free exchange of information, similar to your theory about young earth creationism, which I agree with.The Flamingohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03496635650219254434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22302193.post-6539072375010299742007-11-10T12:26:00.000-05:002007-11-10T12:26:00.000-05:00Torturing for crucial information is something I c...Torturing for crucial information is something I can go along with.<BR/>However, overall treatment should be reflective of the society that captures the detainee.Baconeaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11134934827966299989noreply@blogger.com