Joanna
andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>>Carrol Cox wrote:
>>
>>"I want torture to stop -- but it's incidental to me
>>whether someone is made morally responsible for its
>>occurrence."
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>No, you don't. This is the sort of silly claptrap that
>liberals and leftists feel obliged to pronounce
>because they think that retribution (channeled
>revenge) is ugly. It is ugly, but it is justice and
>virtually everyone, including you, really accepts its
>moral, psychological, and social necessity. It's time
>to stop lying to ourselves. You want see the torturers
>jailed or executed, the same as all decent people do.
>You would not think it was OK if the torturers were
>just to walk away from their tools, leaving the
>prisoners unchained and the doors of their cells open.
>That would be good, but it would not be right. What is
>right is that the prisoners go free and the torturers
>are punished proportionately.
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