We Know Torture is Bad, But We Just Can't Stop!

[KevinTheOmnivore]

Originally Posted by Preechr

As a society supposed to based in reason and morality, we should have defined the grey areas of such situations before now, but we've failed in that regard. What's needed is for folks to sit down and make some sensible guidelines for what and what is not past the line for what one might do to another in the search for information vital for the salvation of many innocent lives.

Wasn't this called the Geneva Convention....?

And, Kelly, yes, the major media stinks. There's a perfectly good alternative located in a window right there on your computer that's yet to be opened. I hope you will find a way to do so, because you seem very bright and willing to be treated honestly.

Here's the problem: You just have yet to figure out that if you want to know the real truth, it's up to you to find it.

Er, pardon me for making a Preechr here and drawing us further off topic, but I think there's a real danger in simply "opening a computer window" to get your information. Is it really a coincidence that people seem to be getting more and more partisan in the age of internet pandering punditry....? You, Preech, can read the Weekly Standard and Newsmax.com all day long if it pleased you, and I could merely read Common Dreams or Media Matters all day. We're certainly finding "alternative" outlets, but what are we really finding? I think most recent studies have in fact shown that people are simply reading to feel right, not necessarily reading to feel enlightened.

I dunno, maybe there's something to be said for the watered down, abstract nightly news with Brian Willams. :/