On 3/20/2011 8:34 AM, eckinator wrote:
2011/3/20 Paul Stenquist<pnstenqu...@comcast.net>:
Flying an airplane full of civilians into a building is torture. Beheading a
journalist on videotape so his family can see him die is torture. Waterboarding
is just damn unpleasant.
uncontestedly waterboarding is less evil. but perpetrating something
less evil to possibly prevent something more evil makes you just that:
less evil. but nonetheless evil. not good. and by a far cry not
morally superior. maybe you're a bit farther down on the food chain
but still an evildoer.
Lesser evils are sometimes necessary evils. The bombing of Dresden
springs immediately to mind.
-- Walt
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