Omar: I think that torture is wrong by definition,
and no argument about
the moral badness of the tortured can justify it.
If you support capital punishment, killing in
defense of one's country--you certainly seem to do
so in the case of Iran--or killing in
self-defense, I don't see how you can maintain
that torture is absolutely morally wrong.
If you do not believe that all killing is morally
wrong, how can you believe all torture is morally
wrong? The tortured person lives and usually
recovers, but the dead person is...well, dead.
Torture, as opposed to death, is temporary.
There are many arguments against torture, but
unless you are opposed to killing even in
self-defense, I don't see how you can advance the
absolute moral argument.
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