There are many reasons why allowing torture is a bad idea and not all of them have to do with compassion. Some of is about what type of a world we want to live in and self preservation.
For example, would you want a former Guantanamo Bay torturer living next to you? You better hope you don't piss them off, because their version of what's normal acceptable behavior could be pretty screwed up. Later, some of these screwed up people run for office and they try to impose their version of normal on the rest of us. Next thing we know we are flogging people and chopping off hands.
Also, its pretty hard for us to complain when our adversaries torture and execute captured soldiers, when we routinely torture and execute their soldiers.
Eventually what goes around, comes around...
Actually, this treatment is far kinder than some of the things experienced by Guantanamo detainees. Imagine being drowned and revived over and over for days, weeks, and months. Eventually some of these detainees will be executed. Some have already died in custody.
If I understand you, you believe that we should become more like them. How does that make us better than them?
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"kicked and beaten, denied medical care, confined in small boxes, and physically and psychologically abused. "
"U.S. policy makers did not act in good faith to ensure that their enhanced interrogation techniques were “safe, legal, ethical and effective.” In fact, interrogations included unauthorized “acts of torture,”
“The abuses reported in this case series could not be practiced without the interrogators and medical monitors being aware of the severe and prolonged physical and mental pain that they caused,”
Guantanamo Doctors Ignored Signs of Prisoner Torture, Group Says - Bloomberg
Sounds like a wonderful place. Yet you guys choose to believe these people are living at a health spa as claimed by many of the same sources which claimed that Iraq had stockpiles of WMDs ready to be launched in minutes and were involved in the events of 9/11.
How often do you guys have to find out that we are being lied to constantly before you guys become skeptical?
gul·li·ble/ˈgələbəl/
Adjective: Easily persuaded to believe something; credulous.
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