Torture-- Let's Get Real

[master of the puppets]

a fine and plausible quote for anyone even non christians as it depitcts that innocence is far rarer and to be coveted much more than the ability to kill a guilty.

you must remember that you are an american, you and you forefathers lived by a constitution that was different from all the rest and revolutionary in its design (or at least it was) and in that it states that there shall be no cruel or unusual punishments. i believe that this makes us the moral superiors, we as americans practicew civility, mercy to even those who do not deserve it. if we were to go lower than that, to throw such time honored distinctions to the dirt we become no better than them, we become the savage animals we despise. i see it better to keep being the best, to be higher than those we fight, cause we are americans.

...but i was born to late cause america has already corrupted itself...damnit.

[Idaho]

In the words of the great Jon Luc Picard:

It is a wonder that [torture] is still practiced at all. As a means of gathering information it is at best unreliable. And as a means of controlling someone it is ultimately self defeating.