We cannot be baited into a question of a false choice

Torture or die...you choose.

Im REALLY surprised no one has brought up the "OK well what if their was a nuke in a city and this one guy had all the answers?"

"Huh ?!?!? Huh?!?!?! What about that ?!?!"

Torture is a question of ethics.

The question of what does a good man do when desperate?
What does he compromise?

Is torture ever justified?
Real torture such a burning people with acid or skinning alive

Should we torture all terrorists or just reeeely bad ones?

eg. some punk kid with an AK who ran off and was caught or Abu Musab al-Zarqawi?

Are we to torture for the simple sake of revenge or for intelligence purposes?

How do we know when they have told us everything ?

Who determines who a terrorist is?
The US government administration? The individual soldier on the ground who found him? The people in that town/village?

What if they are US citizens found aiding terrorists?
Should we torture them to see if they know more traitorous Americans?

Does it matter if they are citizens? Should the government be able to strip your rights at will and begin torture?

What about suspected criminals?
It would be much easier to prosecute when they just confess.

A fundemental question:
Are human rights inherent?

Are human rights, in even their most basic sense, truly universal?
Do some people have more basic human rights then others?

first among equals kinda stuff or pretty blond goes missing vs well anyone not pretty blond

Do your personal ethics change when you see others disregard any sense of ethics?

eg. Does the fact there is a hoodrat dealing crack right now make it more ethically acceptable to you personally to sell crack.

or

The terrorist piece of shit just murdered a group a schoolkids is it now morally acceptable to go into his village and murder their schoolkids?

At what point do we become the psychotics we despise for their savagery?

I have always thought that the United States holds itself to a higher standard because we are the LAST force for goodness and decency.

The only true test of morality is what a man does when no one is looking and its hard to do the right thing