What About Torture?
Jimmy Atkins, our favorite apologist, writes about torture and hits on something in the Catechism:
The Catechism's discussion of torture (CCC 2298) focuses significantly on the motive that is being pursued in different acts of torture. If it means us to understand that having a particular motive is necessary for an act to count as torture then it might turn out that some acts commonly described as torture are in fact not torture--just as some acts commonly described as stealing are not actually the sin of stealing, such as taking food to feed one's family during a time of starvation when the person who initially had the food has plenty. The same might turn out to be true of torture (i.e., not everything that looks like torture would be the sin of torture).
posted by David at 5:28 AM
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Trying to justify torture (or "enhanced interrogation techniques" or whatever: torture by any other name is just as foul) is not likely going to win votes for Bush, but may contribute to his losing the election. They don't call it the Stupid Party for nothing...
By the way, it's Akin not Atkins. Atkins is the diet, Akin the apologist.
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