The Moral of the Story (my response to a liberal-hating conservative about 9/11 & torture)

[Sweeney]

10. There are moral limits to what you can do to one powerless to stop you.

There are also legal limits to what you can do. No one should be compelled to give testimony against themselves. And; legally even if you want to execute some one their right to life must be removed from them in a legal process. None of these people have been convicted of anything. If you think they are guilty, then prove it first.

It is not because they are so bad that we torture, but because we are so good that we do not, or at least, should not. Some times in life and in the movies there is a moment of recognition, and this can be a good thing where on the verge of tragedy, the comic hero realizes what he has become, and changes his fate, and finds his way back into his community or family. The family of humanity rejects these torturers. The family of humanity rejects all who give succor to these criminals. Only because they hide can such criminals survive.

Sweeney