Originally Posted by
sycld
if they have time "to see if the information checks out," then obviously we're not in a hypothetical "time of crisis" when we have to resort to torture to quickly obtain information. that's what the pro-torture people claim, that if there's an emergency and we need information quickly we should be able to torture, even though there's plenty of evidence to show that information obtained from torture is unreliable. then again, these same people's view of reality isn't constrained by "facts" and "evidence."
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