Torture - Does The End Justify The Means?
That’s the real question here. Are we as Americans ok with anything as long as the end justifies the means? The subject of waterboarding has been in the news a lot lately. There is one case that the administration says that due to waterboarding they got information that saved millions of lives.
Even in 9-11, the worst terrorist attack in history, there were not “millions” of lives lost. But we are supposed to believe that they received information by waterboarding someone that saved “millions” of lives.
They aren’t going to give us actual information to back that statement up. They will say they cannot do that due to national security. So they can claim anything they want without having to provide any proof whatsoever.
But let’s say they really did get information by waterboarding that saved whatever number of lives. Should we then be ok with pulling out people’s fingernails? How about electric shock? How about poking out someone’s eyeballs? How about skinning a person alive? How about burning them with fire? How about using brands to scar them until they talk? How about cutting off their testicles?
How far are we willing to go? The administration wants us to believe that as long as they can claim to get results that whatever they do is ok? We talk about waterboarding, but what if that isn’t enough to make someone talk? Can we go ahead and take it a little further?
How about caning people, which the US condemns when other countries do it? How about using a whip on people like was done to the slaves in our own history? Would those be ok too?
Jesus was tortured. The republican administration and GW Bush say they are christian. Christians are supposed to strive to live like Christ lived. We are not perfect like Jesus was. But we are supposed to try.
So I have to ask the question;
Who would Jesus torture?
