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2月12日 Torture and TVI'd highly recommend a couple stories about how an advocacy group, Human Rights First, met with the people behind "24" about the show's use of torture. Kim referred to one of them earlier.
As anyone who has read my recaps of the show could probably attest, I have a real problem with how it has sanitized torture. On the show, torture is almost always treated as the only resort to find out crucial information, it almost always works within minutes, and it is always directed at the guilty.
In reality, of course, it is unreliable as a means of getting information, as people can and do lie despite torture. There are almost always other methods of investigating threats, and innocent people often get swept up with the guilty.
The Parents Television Council found that there were 624 instances of torture from 2002 to 2005, as compared to 102 from 1996 to 2002.
To a certain extent, I can understand the notion of "It's just a television show, so why have a problem with it?" But it subtlely influences people's thinking about the issue of torture, and that's a problem.
It also has people who are actually doing the interrogations taking cues from what they see on TV instead of actual techniques. That's totally troubling.
It also says who we are and what we value. Like one of the advocates points out in the story, it'd be unthinkable that Capt. Kirk (or any number of heroes) would torture someone.
I don't think it's just fuzzy liberal moonbats who should be having problems with this.
This quote comes from a retired colonel and interrogation expert: "I am distressed by the fact that the good guys are depicted as successfully employing what I consider are illegal, immoral and stupid tactics, and they're succeeding. When the good guys are doing something evil and win, that bothers me."
Here's hoping Hollywood listens.
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