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[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago

Yep. In 2003 when the whole torture program became a public discussion, it started this deep dive for me:

And then my dad started saying torture was acceptable and waterboarding isn't really torture because Donald Rumsfeld says so. And my only argument at the time was that the princess is tortured by the Galactic Empire (specifically by Darth Vader) to show that it is super evil and needs its Death Star blown up.

Twenty years later I'm fairly well read in moral philosophy, but also know my dad has gone full MAGA and wouldn't have cared if I could explain why torture is wrong.

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