On one hand your right, he's trying to justify torture and most of us here probably don't agree with that. On the other hand statements of the "when you start

On one hand your right, he's trying to justify torture and most of us here probably don't agree with that. On the other hand statements of the "when you start a sentence with X then you're wrong" variety are just a more wordy and upscale analog of the jerks who are posting "yikes" in reply to any comment they don't like on Reddit and add nothing to the conversation.