The Illuminated Donkey

Jim Henley of Unqualified Offerings is not mad at me. This is quite the relief. His torture argument, which I appear to have misunderstood, wasn't so much that he opposed it for practical reasons, but rather that he opposes it on a moral basis and was using the practical doomsday scenario to counteract any arguments for it. If I'm wrong about this I blame the acetaminophen with codeine I smuggled across the Canadian border, so you should probably just read it yourself. I might respond more coherently to this at a later time when I don't want to knock my tooth out with an ice skate blade like Tom Hanks in Castaway.