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Re:China announces 25% tariffs on $16B worth US goods by 394549 on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @01:17PM (#17717606)
> It intuitively feels, to me, "more bad" for a country to torture its own citizens than for a country to torture citizens of its enemies (although both are still bad).

I agree with you. The citizen scenario includes extra immoral elements like in-group betrayal and abuse of friends in addition to whatever immoral elements come from the torture itself. The enemy scenario feels like the immoral elements may even be a bit muted by that fact that you're probably already willing to kill the enemy, which feels like a more extreme action.

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Re:China announces 25% tariffs on $16B worth US goods by pm90 on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @02:36PM (#17718259)
> already willing to kill the enemy, which feels like a more extreme action.

Tell me, would you rather be tortured in Gitmo for a decade and live with the scars for the rest of your life or just take a bullet to your head and be done with it?

Torture is immoral, full stop. No human being should ever be tortured.

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