Just curious.
Do you condemn the torture by Nazis or Commies?
If so, on what moral basis do you ground that condemnation?
Or is it simply that we’re the good guys, so anything we do is right? If so, what is your explanation for why we should be considered the good guys?
You apparently, as usual, also seem to be comprehension-challenged in reading. Where exactly did I condemn anybody?
I simply said that how we as a society decide to treat helpless people in our power says important things about us and our morality. Do you disagree?
I will tell this; what you fail to grasp is captured soldiers HAVE GENEVA CONVENTION PROTECTIONS. So if a Nazi or a Commie tortures a captured soldier they are committing a war crime. A CIA agent torturing a terrorist has committed no crime at all. DO GET IT YET?
>I simply said that how we as a society decide to treat helpless people in our power says important things about us and our morality. Do you disagree?
Of course it is also possible to take the position that all violence is wrong, even self defense. There are all manner of different moral positions one can take. Many of them are extremely impractical in the real world.
A position that inflicting retribution on people in a manner commensurate to their actions is just fine with me. Terrorists do not abide by any of the rules of war or protections afforded by a civilized society to either soldiers or civilians. As such they should not be afforded any protections whatsoever. If you do not treat them in a manner which reflects their actions, you do nothing to deter those actions.
As for the ‘helpless people in our power’, the number of these scum who have been released from our custody (after being well treated) only to go onto resume fighting us in a barbaric fashion is quite large.
It’s nice to take the moral high ground. It’s just a question of how much of our blood do you want to sacrifice to hold it.