Reply #5: Torture can and should, if at all [View All]

[Spinzonner]

only be justified in retrospect, in the full light of what the circumstances and risks of not torturing were and the alternatives were.

Granting the permission prospectively is a license for evil and abuse.

Any true patriot, faced with such dire circumstances that demand it's use, should willingly give him/her-self up to the judgment of history and society as to the necessity.