Is torture ever “justified”?

On Twitter, generic viagra treatment Wil Wheaton, cure the guy who played Wesley on Star Trek: the Next Generation, wrote:

Look, all you people who think torture is just great and is *ever* justified? You sicken me. Go watch 24 and leave me alone.

I don’t know if torture by the state is ever justifiable; but if anyone ever kidnapped someone I loved, “torture” would be too tame a word for what I would do to them.

10 comments January 13th, 2009