Quote Originally Posted by manfrommaine View Post
discounting humanity is a slippery slope. It starts with torturing a terrorist who we are 100% sure has knowledge concerning an attack that would kill half the planet....and before not too very long, it becomes routinely beating every suspect in routine robberies to speed up and solidify the confession-obtaining process.

If you would torture a terrorist you KNEW had knowledge of an attack that would kill millions, why wouldn't you torture a terrorist suspect you THOUGHT had knowledge of an attack that would kill thousands, or a possible terrorist who MIGHT have knowledge of an attack that would kill hundreds?

And beyond that, how would you EVER hold the moral high ground against any enemy who treated captured Americans the same way?

My GOD...does being an American mean anything special anymore? Are we not BETTER than our enemies?
We have held a higher ground and we continue to. Do we pull fingernails out with pliers, cut off digits, drive nails through hands, hang people by their arms behind their backs? No, we ARE better than our enemies.

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