There is No Excuse For The Evil Use of Torture.

[Uncle Joe]

Torture does as much damage to the humanity of the torturer and moral authority of the torturing nation as it does the victims.

The fig leaf promoted by some is that torture is necessary in order to prevent a greater evil or harm, however torture; not only produces bad information, it creates more hatred and hatred begets evil intention, so in effect you feed the very beast you claim to despise.

Thus in two ways, torture threatens national security in spite of the claims by some of needing to torture as a means of security, but what if the intent to torture wasn't to prevent a greater harm to the nation? What if the use of torture was intended as a means to extract bad information on purpose? What if the motivation behind the evil use of torture was to promote an even greater evil; a premeditated war based on false witness? I believe that would be a double evil.

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I hate to say it, but I believe this to be the case.