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To: Shane M who wrote (743)12/12/2014 11:30:29 AM
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I am posting this here not as a political issue, but to show the psychology involved.

There is noting worse than torture, except the mindset that is not bothered by it-------unless they never had to endure it. This is a subject we should not even be debating.

The torture question is real simple. It is never Ok to torture people.

I saw Morning Joe today and they were all giving a pass to torture, except one of my favorites Sam Stein. He calmly (as he always is) said: it is no surprise I disagree with the entire panel and started to explain himself and then, of course Joe, talked over him and cut him off.

And it is interesting to notice that Brennan could not bring himself to even use the word torture though his entire speech was about torture. He mostly used the acronym EIT which is sort of creepy.

That shows how the people who were involved with the torture were and still are acting like it was not torture, exactly, but also knowing it was torture and that torture is not OK. Cognitive dissonance.

If they want to make a defense for torture then let them say the word: it is OK to torture at times. But they don't, they say it is OK to use EIT at times as though it is OK to torture if you don't use the word.

Look at the psychological confusion and cognitive dissonance involved in defending EIT, but not torture.
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