# Sell me on why the US should engage in torture.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sell-me-on-why-the-us-should-engage-in-torture/325655>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 10, 2005, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sell-me-on-why-the-us-should-engage-in-torture/325655 "2005-10-10T23:36:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sell-me-on-why-the-us-should-engage-in-torture/325655/161 "2005-10-20T07:46:11Z")

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> [@enitocinnlonahte](#):
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> I am not arguing against it. The fact that that is true does not contradict my previous statements.

Yes it does. Your view of rape is flat-out 100% uninformed.

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**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sell-me-on-why-the-us-should-engage-in-torture/325655/162 "2005-10-20T07:47:16Z")

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> [@tomndebb](#):
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> **Sailboat** , **tagos** , anyone else interested: look back over the thread. **enitocinnlonahte** is not interested in a discussion. He’s only here to throw out one-liners, unsupported by facts, and then shift his position with each post just enough to keep you interacting with him. I’d suggest you simply not do all that work to provide him a setup for one more one-liner.

You’re right. Didn’t see this before last post.

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**Author:** ![enitocinnlonahte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3bc359/32.png) [@enitocinnlonahte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enitocinnlonahte)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sell-me-on-why-the-us-should-engage-in-torture/325655/163 "2005-10-20T11:50:27Z")

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> [@tagos](#):
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> Yes it does. Your view of rape is flat-out 100% uninformed.

I have the same information as you; I have heard the claim that rape has nothing to do with sex repeated a hundred times. I’ve read the research that indicates that that is the case and I’ve read research that indicates otherwise. The conclusion that I have come to is that rape is about both sex and power. Blindly maintaining that it is otherwise serves no purpose except to reinforce the delusion that it must be one or the other.

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