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Community => Serious Topics => Topic started by: Pugnate on Monday, February 23, 2009, 11:29:20 AM
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7906381.stm
Just read through the whole thing. It is quite terrifying. I mean, you read that, and you pray to god that he was guilty and deserved what he got. Because the alternative just crushes you.
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I started to post, then realized I have absolutely nothing of value to say about this. What really goes on behind the scenes is unknowable to us here. If it prevented a single slaughter of innocents, it was the right thing to do. If the man is himself an innocent, it wasn't. But how can we know?
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You gotta think about how that kind of treatment could potentially turn a man into a monster. Any man imprisoned and tortured for 6 years for no good reason would be inclined to repay his tormentors.
This is all pure speculation of course. We really don't know the truth.