Sic Semper Tyrannis

I got Andrew Sullivan'd (second letter).

I really had three points with this letter: (1) engaging in torture forfeits a moral high ground, (2) it is strategically dumb unless you have a 100% accurate capture rate, and (3) it gives the government a power that it could one day turn against you, especially if you deign to dissent at all.

I wrote in because Andrew is one of the few people who care enough to speak out doggedly on this issue of prime importance. When most people are apathetic on this issue, I think they are implicitly committing the common statist fallacy of conceptually separating the people upon whom enforcement is exercised from themselves.

I'm glad I got printed, but I cringe a little to see my superfluous "for" in the second paragraph was left in. Warts and all, I s'pose ;)