[lit-ideas] Re: Is torture wrong by definition?

  • From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 14:05:04 -0400

> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 4/6/2006 1:38:08 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Is torture wrong by definition?
>
>  >>There is no way that one can say let's act like 
> barbarians and civilization
> will follow.
>
> As Monty Python argued, "What have the Romans ever 
> done for us?"
>


James Joyce once likened Rome to "a man who lives by exhibiting to
travelers his grandmother's corpse."  In addition to which, Rome was a
brutal, brutal society.  Is that what they've done for us?



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