In Defense of Torture, by Sam Harris
After reading Harris' position paper, I was left with a lot of redundant thoughts. Harris struck points that really struck home with my own position on torture. The concept of torture is inhuman and evil, but as reinforced by Harris, is a necessary evil. A common lesson that is taught to us by our parents is "Treat others as you would treat yourself", but if a thug or a terrorist were to treat me inhumanly, then by all means! we should feel obligated to torture or treat them poorly. This becomes a blatantly obvious course of action when there is a risk of other people being hurt!
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