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Re:CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach ... by rendall on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @03:06PM (#30689683)
These kinds of conversations always devolve.

"Torture is bad and should be abolished".

"Well, what about this other, very contrived situation where it's good?"

You can use that non-sequitur to justify literally anything. "Murder, slavery and rape is bad". "Well, what about this situation where it did good?"

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Re:CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach ... by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:13PM (#30690901)
That's why law is hard. Even the contrived situations occur.
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Re:CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach ... by rendall on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @07:06PM (#30693124)
No. There is no "difficult moral conundrum" about torture, nor slavery, nor rape, nor genocide.

There are only people who inexplicably insist that a tortured non-sequitur is a pro-torture counterfactual.

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Re:CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach ... by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @09:19AM (#30698433)
That's one viewpoint. In some situations, it allows innocent people to die in large numbers. That's part of the moral situation too. Ignoring it, insisting it's all black-and-white, is easy from an armchair.
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