While I oppose the use of torture, I am skeptical of those who claim it is ineffective. By the accounts I’ve read it was very effective when used by the French in Algeria and numerous dictatorships against internal threats.
Is atheism incompatible with a belief in morality? For me it was, but I appear to be unrepresentative of atheists. I still have pretty much the same attitudes that I did when I was puritanically religious, but now I recognize there is nothing “true” or “correct” about them that others should be swayed by and that they are merely my personal preferences.
While I oppose the use of torture, I am skeptical of those who claim it is ineffective. By the accounts I’ve read it was very effective when used by the French in Algeria and numerous dictatorships against internal threats.
Is atheism incompatible with a belief in morality? For me it was, but I appear to be unrepresentative of atheists. I still have pretty much the same attitudes that I did when I was puritanically religious, but now I recognize there is nothing “true” or “correct” about them that others should be swayed by and that they are merely my personal preferences.