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Originally Posted by Undertoad
I totally disagree.
We're so firmly in semantics-land here, that just to say what we do is "torture" puts us in moral equivalence with, you know, actual torture, things that nobody disagrees is torture.
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You've got it wrong. "Things that nobody disagrees is torture" is essentially the set of things that Al Qaeda does that we don't. You're the one in semantics-land, Mr. "Stuff your mama did to you as a kid".
Yay us that we aren't as bad as Al Qaeda, but it doesn't excuse the things that we do.