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Hullaballoo today, tristero deconstructs all rationals for approving torture concluding:
"The ethics of torture" is a topic that no one in a healthy democracy should have to spend too much time discussing because its immorality should be self-evident to its citizens. But we don’t live in a healthy democracy - and, after Bush, it is at least arguable the extent to which we actually live in a democracy. ... So now, to quickly conclude a tedious subject, please remember this if nothing else:
Torture is always immoral. End of discussion.