What Is This Thing Called Logic?

[misscam]

You know what a chapter is gonna be about when your story notes for it simply says "the seduction of Sara Sidle". Grissom, you naughty man. Cam, you naughty author. And that makes 21 chapters I have written of East of the Sun, West of the Moon, which will very soon make it the longest serious story I've written, surpassing Faded Scars. It certainly will have by the time I'm done, since the end is still only vaguely in sight. (And I would regale you all with these chapters, but my beta is a little preoccupied, it seems. Sniff.)

And it today's 'What the hell was he thinking', I bring you...
Lawyer defends torture
Smackdown! And defence

I quote: Professor Bagaric has defended his paper, which is entitled Not enough (official) torture in the world?"I would only condone it in the rarest of circumstances … when it is the only means possible to avert a moral catastrophe," he said.

And legalizing torture ISN'T a moral catastrophe? Sometimes, I really, really wondered about this ability we have called logic. How is it that some have so much of it and some seem to lack it altogether? Can logic be unlearned? Can it be relearned? (Please!)

Can someone learn it to this chick? And the tinhats? And babydoll? And the guy who told me Scandinavian women were bedhopping hoes since we had legalized gay marriage?

It would be much appreciated.

Meme of the day: If logic could be relearned, you would demanded classes for: ...? (Give reasons.)

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Comments

logic? what logic?

[immoralilly.livejournal.com]

Crazy pro-torture article. Though perhaps it could be justified in extreme logic re-learning classes. I would have to nominate the horrendous babydoll, my English teacher who seizes an idea and runs with it in defiance of all sense and George Bush. Though he might have to learn to speak before he could move on to logic.

Of course legalizing torture isn't a moral catastrophe!

[sinneahtes.livejournal.com]

And why didn't my parents realize while I was a little kid that I should have been allowed to learn that hurting people is the way to get what I wanted! I mean, they stopped me before I started progressing from hitting people who did mean things to biting random strangers who just happened to have something I wanted!

Okay, now that I've said that, I wonder if there are any studies that show that torture becoming okay in "certain cases" leads to torture becoming okay in yet more cases.

[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

Re that pro-torture guy... there is not enough WTF in the world. It was all over the papers down here in Oz, and his university blasted him into the ground. If thoughts could kill, he'd be dead unto infinity.

Leaving that awful topic... logify physics, ToK, politics, environmental practices (ie. NOT cutting down all our forests and actually doing something to save the planet) and teenage hormones. Or at least find a way of reducing them to neglible levels, because they're being bloody annoying right now.

[talestra.livejournal.com]

I can only prey that none of you will ever have to face a choice between hurting someone and saving life of people you care about.

Personally, I don't believe in legalizing torture, it simply will promote using it more and more. Torture is not very productive, developing better truth serums could get more information.
But I really hate when people take high moral ground and start preaching without ever facing some hard situations and decisions.