I agree about torture - we can afford to lose a few wars, but we can not afford the introduction of torture as a tool of State.
I am changing my mind about government sponsored assasination, though. It seems to me that it is a natural progression from war to terrorism to assassins. It is economical to employ resources for a focused "hitman" to stalk an enemy, rather than deploy a whole team of strangers to harass people who have barely a tangential relationship to the target. (Or a team of people to make friends with the same tangential people in hope that they will betray the target.) But it is always hard to justify wars, so I'm open to correction.
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Date: 2011-05-12 09:10 pm (UTC)I am changing my mind about government sponsored assasination, though. It seems to me that it is a natural progression from war to terrorism to assassins. It is economical to employ resources for a focused "hitman" to stalk an enemy, rather than deploy a whole team of strangers to harass people who have barely a tangential relationship to the target. (Or a team of people to make friends with the same tangential people in hope that they will betray the target.) But it is always hard to justify wars, so I'm open to correction.