Why we can all get along!

Here is a fantastic post from a conservatice blogger about torture. It makes several excellent points:

1) The government is fallible, hence even given the best intentions horrific wrongs will be committed.

2) The constraints given in many torture hypotheticals (the ticking bomb) are such that lacking those constraints the presumed answer (that torture would be justified) is no longer reasonable.

3) There is no relationship between hypotheticals and how we should set policy.