I hate being on this side of the torture question. I hate thinking that maybe its okay.
Is any action, any attitude all right as long as it destroys a despised and hated foulness? What if it just weakens the foulness? Do we back off? Or do we then say that we need to kick it up a notch, because the level of intensity we were at was not good enough, not meeting its desired purpose?
Who gets to decide? The instruments of the action? Or someone else?
And if we truly got material from what we did that could not have been gotten any other way, and if that material was truly worth it -- was the action ok?
Why isn't this obvious to me?
