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Old 10-13-05, 06:40 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Re: Torture

No.

Why?

Because if we torture prisoners, the moral line between what we do and what our enemies do disappears. Once that happens, more people will start to question our own government and our own country. People will have to question their own beliefs and nobody wants to do that.
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