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Originally Posted by Moejoe
I'm finding it very hard to take any of your points seriously when you so easily find grey areas in torture, but are so black-and-white about file sharing. You say in an earlier post that you are a "moral coward" but what does this mean? That you can actually, truthfully and honestly see a situation in which torture is the right path to take?
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No. It simply means I cannot categorically rule out the fact that such a scenario may exist. In just the same way that, for example, I think it extremely unlikely that God exists, but because I cannot rule out the possibility that I am wrong, I classify myself as an agnostic and not an atheist. It must be reassuring to have such certainty in your life that you can definitively state that something absolutely cannot happen. I just cannot see the world in such "black and white" terms.