Against Torture
In THE TORTURE DEBATE, Maggie Gallagher takes the morally correct stand:
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In THE TORTURE DEBATE, Maggie Gallagher takes the morally correct stand:
I have found few things more distressing than discovering so many of my fellow citizens support not just harsh interrogation techniques, but outright torture....
The Wall Street Journal opines: "A strange code of morality would allow the killing of (a known terrorist) but not his stressful questioning to prevent further murders he might plan against innocent civilians. "
Let me tell you about that strange code. It used to be called "Christianity." For centuries it chiefly justified deadly force only in self-defense, or the proper defense of another. When a terrorist is out there trying to kill you, you may be justified in using deadly force. But once you capture him, then different moral rules apply. Others once referred to this strange moral code as "civilization." Its veneer over the human heart is razor-thin. Under threat, most of us revert to the primitive ethic: Hurt the bad guy.
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Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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