[Nononce]

Based on your statement, the correct conclusion would be that no /innocent/ person should be imprisoned, ever. (To which I agree).

Torture, like drone murders, false convictions, does and will continue to effect many, many innocent people. It's a matter of moral; is it acceptable to to torture/kill innocent people to accomplish an object or not.

Personally, I cannot for the life of me justify torture. Torture, unlike ending someone's life, is something the victim will have to live through, and possible, with, for the rest of his life.

It's disgusting to do this to any living thing, let alone a human being.

[SilasX]

>Based on your statement, the correct conclusion would be that no /innocent/ person should be imprisoned, ever. (To which I agree).

But the OP was trying to extrapolate from there to "so no one should be tortuted (simply to avoid doing so to an innocent)", and that inference is what I was criticizing.

[nickff]

Personally, I cannot for the life of me justify imprisonment. Imprisonment, unlike ending someone's life, is something the victim will have to live through, and possible[sic], with, for the rest of his life.

note: this is not a statement of my actual beliefs, but a foil to show the error of the post I am responding to.