No Surprise There!!

[RATTER15]

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/week-god-122014

[solvitquick]

Well Yes RATTER, Surprising, if those answering were sincere in their beliefs!
How can white protestants favour torture except for the (ir)rational belief that it will somehow protect them or others in their society? (which it won't of course).
Many tortured are innocent and have nothing to divulge while those who do know anything significant are trained to resist torture even if it is through religious belief.
That's pragmatism which supports morality - a potent mix.
I presume this is a USA poll, in which case the overall findings are not a Complete Surprise as they believed they were immune from international war on their own doorsteps.
That's not their fault, as the USA is a relatively young country and, civil war excepted, they have not experienced the deprivations, blood-loss and cruelty which, we, their European founders have done.
Torture based on "intelligence" as opposed to hard evidence only makes the inhumanity move from the cruelly immoral to the gratuitous evil.
SIQ.

[birdie1971]

SIQ

Wow. You post is so full of half-truths, suppositions and downright absurdities that it's difficult to know where to start deconstructing such a travesty of a post!

[solvitquick]

Oh yeah? Who of any intellect says so?
SIQ.

[wildwood]

SIQ

//That's not their fault, as the USA is a relatively young country and, civil war excepted, they have not experienced the deprivations, blood-loss and cruelty which, we, their European founders have done. //

I am not a great fan of USA generally, but if it was not for them we may not be as free as we are now. Find me another country that has lost more soldiers overseas in the last 40 years while protecting the unjust.

[wildwood]

// protecting the unjust// should read protecting FROM the unjust.

[DaisyNonna]

So if you are not white or not of a specific religion or non religion you do not count?