Wednesday, January 13, 2010

"Why is torture commonly used?"

To preserve my pearls of wisdom posted on the LTE comments today (tongue in cheek)....

Bubba wrote on 01/13/2010 12:58:16 PM ... it does seem odd that if torture doesn't work, why is it so commonly used? ...

Because it appeals to a certain base mindset of people in a position to do the torturing. It doesn't matter whether or not any good information is obtained or whether the people being tortured even would have been in a position to have any kind of information in the first place, it's the act of torture that is satisfying to that kind of people.
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2 comments:

  1. KardnosJanuary 13, 2010 at 5:25 PM

    I thought your response was brilliant.

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  2. Anonymous98507January 13, 2010 at 5:44 PM

    Thank you, Larry.

    I'm tired of fools not separating the act from the actor.

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