Quote Originally Posted by Alric View Post
I will explain it to you right now. There is a simple and very logical reason for why people who are against torture do not have deep uncontrollable hate for terrorists.

Its because every person here knows torture is horrible and wrong. The only way you can defend torture is for you to have such hate for the person it is being used on, that your emotions cloud your rational mind.

If you are thinking clearly on the subject, and your emotions are not in control of you then your going to agree that there is no reason we should ever torture a person.
Then why do they hate the waterboarders?

I am not saying with certainty which individuals here hate terrorists and which don't... because I don't know. I am just talking about what I see from the American population at large. I see a great deal more hate on the whole directed at waterboarders than I do at terrorists. I hope we don't have any more terrorist attacks here, but if God forbid we do, I think the tendency will shift. In the days right after 9/11, pretty much the whole country agreed with the things I have been saying this whole time. I guess the disproportionate hate is a result of how well our anti-terrorism policies have been working.