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The hard choice
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To sum up:

A lot of people say that these techniques never work. This is not true. They do.

This doesn't change the difficult moral decisions that need to be made, but you don't get the easy out of assuming that the techniques are useless anyway, so why not forbid them?

If you take the "high ground" on this issue, you could be trading innocent lives for it. If we had taken the high ground back then, there would very likely be a hole in Los Angeles like the one in New York. That's not something to take lightly when deciding policy.

This doesn't make outlawing these interrogation methods the wrong decision. But it's not as cut and dried as people here have been pretending, and it's a decision that needs a lot more thought than they've been giving it.

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