You know, because the fear was manufactured by the same government.

Thank you so much.

Yes, it’s really dispiriting that so many people have somehow started to condone torture, imagining that it makes them safer.

Increasingly I’m finding people are far too willing to either condone outright or at least remain apathetic to its use against “terror suspects”. The whole ‘us against them’ mentality springs to mind.

I think what many people fail to understand is just quite what torture is. We’re used to seeing a bit of rough treatment in action movies, and think to many that’s all there really is to it. They fail to appreciate the utter brutality and disregard for humanity that is required to be a torturer. In my mind if you couldn’t stomach doing it yourself, you should not be complicit in allowing your country to do it for you.

I have often thought it is the peaceful nature of modern society that had led the unthinking masses to accept such horrific actions.

I do wonder, however, if the west has retained any claim to the moral high ground…