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		rendall on March 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CIA black site detainee served as training prop to... No. There is no "difficult moral conundrum" about torture, nor slavery, nor rape, nor genocide. There are only people who inexplicably insist that a tortured non-sequitur is a pro-torture counterfactual.

JoeAltmaier on March 16, 2022 [–]

That's one viewpoint. In some situations, it allows innocent people to die in large numbers. That's part of the moral situation too. Ignoring it, insisting it's all black-and-white, is easy from an armchair.

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