ENHANCED INTERROGATION TECNIQUES

Torture. Lets all pretend for a minute and get in touch with our animal side of our nature. As base as our human nature is, imagine you had physical control of the partner of the man who kidnapped your daughter. Lets pretend further that the kidnapper was a known sex offender. So now it's just you and his partner, all alone in the woods, all your thinking about is your daughter, she's missing, your full of rage beyond imagination. What would you do?
I imagine myself beating the man half to death if he wouldn't tell me where my girl was. So now, he is only half alive, he's completely at your mercy, and you still don't know where your daughter is. What do you do?
Knowing me, I would probably kill him. I've never been in this situation and I hope it never happens, but I do see a dark side of me where this could play out. The tragic thing is, that even after I killed him, I still don't know where my baby is and I just killed a man. I've turned into an animal at this point. Even though this is an extreme scenario, I can see it happening.
As extreme as that example was, it was still only an example of 1 man, in one situation, doing 1 thing against his nature. What happens if a society adopts this as policy?
In my view, I have just became the same as the person who kidnapped my girl. Who wins? My girl is still suffering, I didn't save my girl. All I've done is cut off one hope, one chance to at least get my girl back!
After watching the Republican debate the other night, it seems to me that you won't get the Republican nomination unless your pro- torture. In other words,' enhanced interrogation techniques'. You can watch and listen to the audience applaud the candidates endorse torture and moan for those who didn't embrace torture. Republicans still make up a large percentage of America. How did America become pro torture? How does an advanced society have 50% of it's citizens embrace torture?
After George Washington crossed the Delaware and defeated the German mercenaries, he had many prisoners, about 230 if I remember correctly. Many of his men wanted to kill the prisoners. What did the honorable GW do? He let them go, gave them marching orders to report to an encampment some 150 miles away. George Washington said(paraphrase), We will not be as cruel as our enemy, We will not become them. Guess what, every one of those prisoners marched across the wilderness, without escort or guards, reported to the prison camp and the majority of those Germans eventually became American citizens.
My point is this," If you intend to use the same evil tactics as your enemy, why fight them, just join them and give up up your morals, and quit calling yourself a civil society".
LET'S NOT IGNORE THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM