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Old 06-02-2010, 11:09 PM   #39
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Originally Posted by mykalberta View Post
I guess to some the reason why people are tortured matter, and some think that its a bad thing no matter what.

The reasons matter - the video paints him as some sort of helpless victim who deserves some ordained sainthood.

You know, the irony of your viewpoint is that there actually IS a school of thought that says the reasons for torture matter. But in general, they construct a hypothetical "ticking time-bomb" scenario to justify torture, not one where "the Hell's Angels kind of didn't like you."

Sorry, but this time relativism has no place. The reasons don't matter. Torture isn't somehow "slightly more okay" if the victim wasn't a saint. If it were, we'd live in a terrifying moral universe.
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