Buchanan: Torturing Terrorists is Moral

Is the deliberate infliction of pain always immoral? Of course not. Twisting another kid's arm to make him tell where he hid your stolen bicycle is not wrong. Parents spank children to punish them and drive home the lessons of living good lives. Even the caning of that American kid in Singapore that caused a firestorm was not immoral.

Coincidentally, I had to write a paper on this topic a couple of years ago in a law school jurisprudence class. I think I came down on the side of being against it.