Posted by Declan on November 10, 2005, at 13:08:28
In reply to Re: t o r t u r e » Declan, posted by lil' jimi on November 10, 2005, at 12:20:15
There is an academic here (Australia) in some law department made who the usual arguments in favour of torture (What if ripping someone's fingernails out would save a thousand lives, let's regularise it, we can't rule it out). It was controversial and dealt with in the quality press, but it would only take (the expected) terrorist attack to make such arguments more acceptable. I've been dreading what such an attack would do to politics here. It's already bad enough.
Declan
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