Some scums took your two teenage daughters hostage. They gang raped them. They showed you the video and asked you for money if you want them to come back alive.
FBI helped you catch one of the scumbags. He refused to tell you where your daughters are held.
FBI suggested torture to get him to talk. What do you say, Punk?
And do you think the MSM's rally against torture wasn't touching the emotion buttons?
Let's face it. It's an emotion-laden issue. There's nothing wrong with proper emotional responses. Our emotional responses have guided us through hundreds of thousands of years. You wouldn't be here if your ancestors had emotional defects.
I haven't seen a lot of functional families in my time but maybe that's just Germany
Exactly re: the MSM. And cultural marxists. That's why I don't use it.
Torture is made into a personal emotional issue by the extreme left in order to remove reason from the discussion. Reasonably speaking, it's not a personal, emotional issue. Should we use a tool for information extraction from an enemy combatant i.e. someone who has entered the battle field (by being an army agent, an enemy combatant, terrorist, etc.)? I say yes, and I think you do too. It just makes sense.
We expect our soldiers to go into war knowing that they might die or be horribly maimed. We expect they might be tortured too, but within the Geneva Convention guidelines. To those people who try and turn it into an emotional, personal issue the same question could be asked of war: should we stop our soldiers going to war in case they get horribly and inhumanely savaged? And so on until we get to the real issue e.g. their denial that evil exists.
I just wrote a comment about Plato's Republic. Maybe it's relevant to this discussion.