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I remember some years ago reading some equally chilling accounts from a writer for a Washington newspaper who did a series on black-ops torture, and how misguided government intel accounted for zero real terrorists in Guantanamo, or other secret sites. Maybe first we should ask, does government dictate morality through law, or man through conscious. If the latter, any supporter of this government is either a not a man, or an evil one.

https://www.thenation.com/article/cia-didnt-just-torture-it-experimented-human-beings/

"The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, worth their bodies. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailers, constables, posse, comitatus, etc. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgement or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. Such command no more respect than men of straw or a lump of dirt. They have the same sort of worth only as horses and dogs."

-Henry David Thoreau