http://trueslant.com/ryansager/2009/04/09/torture-and-the-brain/ A newswire of human stupidity Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:16:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://trueslant.com/ryansager/2009/04/09/torture-and-the-brain/comment-page-1/#comment-928 Ryan Sager - Neuroworld – What We Talk About When We Talk About Torture - True/Slant Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:11:14 +0000 http://trueslant.com/ryansager/?p=689#comment-928 [...] So, how do you argue against torture without the “it doesn’t work” argument? Well, it’s not easy (which is why people adopted the “It Doesn’t Work” argument in the first place). You can argue from pure morality, but that’s not very persuasive to the great body of people who would pull out KSM’s fingernails personally. And Americans aren’t likely to be convinced that terrorists (and don’t tell them there’s a difference between accused and actual terrorists, they won’t hear you) deserve any rights whatsoever. [...] [...] So, how do you argue against torture without the “it doesn’t work” argument? Well, it’s not easy (which is why people adopted the “It Doesn’t Work” argument in the first place). You can argue from pure morality, but that’s not very persuasive to the great body of people who would pull out KSM’s fingernails personally. And Americans aren’t likely to be convinced that terrorists (and don’t tell them there’s a difference between accused and actual terrorists, they won’t hear you) deserve any rights whatsoever. [...]

]]> http://trueslant.com/ryansager/2009/04/09/torture-and-the-brain/comment-page-1/#comment-885 Ryan Sager - Neuroworld – Torture’s TV Morality - True/Slant Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:32:59 +0000 http://trueslant.com/ryansager/?p=689#comment-885 [...] The availability bias would be hard enough to counteract — we’d need years of stories about innocent people being tortured and torture not working and torture backfiring on U.S. goals. But it’s also coupled with the fact that we simply don’t care very much about people in out-groups (as I explained in this old post about torture and the brain). [...] [...] The availability bias would be hard enough to counteract — we’d need years of stories about innocent people being tortured and torture not working and torture backfiring on U.S. goals. But it’s also coupled with the fact that we simply don’t care very much about people in out-groups (as I explained in this old post about torture and the brain). [...]

]]> http://trueslant.com/ryansager/2009/04/09/torture-and-the-brain/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Welcome to Neuroworld at Miscellaneous Objections Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:21:01 +0000 http://trueslant.com/ryansager/?p=689#comment-60 [...] * Torture and the Brain [...] [...] * Torture and the Brain [...]

]]> http://trueslant.com/ryansager/2009/04/09/torture-and-the-brain/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Torture and the Brain - LDS Mormon Forums Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:21:34 +0000 http://trueslant.com/ryansager/?p=689#comment-45 [...] http://trueslant.com/ryansager/2009/04/09/torture-and-the-brain/ Torture and the Brain Do Americans feel moral outrage about torture? Even those who say they opposed the interrogation techniques of the Bush administration [...] http://trueslant.com/ryansager/2009/04/09/torture-and-the-brain/ Torture and the Brain Do Americans feel moral outrage about torture? Even those who say they opposed the interrogation techniques of the Bush administration

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