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Yes, but it is painfully evident that there are people in America willing to support a candidate that endorses inhuman tactics.
The argument that it is "just plain wrong, inhuman, and evil" will not work on everyone, and if there is avenue of argument that has a chance of changing the minds of that demographic, then I think it has some merit.
I see a parallel in my own opinion on the death penalty. I don't feel particularly moved by the state putting to death terrible people. But the argument of anti-death penalty activists that was most effective on me was the exceptionally flawed legal process that may happen to put an innocent person on the lethal injection table. It's for that reason--not necessarily moral reasons--that I don't endorse capital punishment.
So I think there is still a role for the "it doesn't work" argument, especially since essentially every expert that has studied torture will tell you so.
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