Ah, I see. I misinterpreted your comment, apologies.
Would you mind elaborating on what societal impact you think participating in torture has on the US? I'm curious to hear the viewpoint of an American on this.
(From the perspective of a heathen foreigner, the US military has done despicable things for decades, so to some degree this is just business as usual.)
> I'm curious to hear the viewpoint of an American on this. [...] From the perspective of a heathen foreigner
Hey, that makes two of us ;)
But I'm also European, that means apart from the religious aspect, we're pretty much in the same boat as the US, and often times that boat is a heavily armed gunship. In the end, countries are not monolithic entities, or even single ideologies for that matter. People in power are susceptible to atrocious ideas, wherever they live.
> Would you mind elaborating on what societal impact you think participating in torture has on the US?
For what it's worth, I think the impact is that we (US and allies) become a society of torturers, as banal as that may sound. Once we internalize the fact that we are people who torture, our entire values compass becomes skewed.
Would you mind elaborating on what societal impact you think participating in torture has on the US? I'm curious to hear the viewpoint of an American on this.
(From the perspective of a heathen foreigner, the US military has done despicable things for decades, so to some degree this is just business as usual.)