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Before the 9/11 attacks, torture was almost always depicted in television and movies as something that bad guys did. That’s not true anymore. The Bush administration may be over, but Bush-era terrorist torture and assassination policies are growing more popular.
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Institutionalized torture says not look what we can do, but look what we disown, what only the bad apples among us require.

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Torture, though wrong, might work – Its aim is to induce helplessness/despair, which could render the subject pliable.
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