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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.

2 comments:

Kardnos said...

I thought your response was brilliant.

Anonymous98507 said...

Thank you, Larry.

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