[neverdem]

PING

[antaresequity]

Wow...what a great post. Ever since 9-11 I too have changed my mind about torture. Who here wouldn't relish the idea of slowly torturing Osama Bin Laden...or approve of a public execution as excellent theatre?

In a way, the whole middle east has desensatized the world, along with some help via sattelite and the internet. The killing of a mother and her four children barely raise an eyebrow...

The real tragedy is not the sub human creatures that were humiliated, but the desensatizing foisted upon us by the Middle Eastern Barbarians.

[Cap Huff]

Lord of the Flies

[Diddle E. Squat]

Which, if you think about it, can explain why ordinary people can become virtual bloodthirsty backstabbing agents of sedition in the Democrat party and media.

Some may think I'm trying to be humorous, but I'm completely serious. It is just a different shade of the same pathology. Little different from the screaming knee-jerk 'nuke Mecca' types that invariably post here.

Which is why a moral compass and societal rules are always needed. The whole 60's worship of 'pushing the limits, breaking the rules, shock culture' is simply playing itself out. Densisitization does occur, whether we choose to admit it or not.

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

Great post!

Bump.

[Diddle E. Squat]

FYI

[ikka]

The NYT has to go back to a pop-psych test, never repeated or peer-reviewed, 33 years ago in order to slander our troops.

[summer]

From article: Prisons, where the balance of power is so unequal, tend to be brutal and abusive places unless great effort is made to control the guards' base impulses, he said. At Stanford and in Iraq, he added: "It's not that we put bad apples in a good barrel. We put good apples in a bad barrel. The barrel corrupts anything that it touches."

Thanks for posting this interesting article. You beat me to it!