Muhammad Idrees Ahmad responds to my post on torture: I am reminded of what Slavoj Zizek
had to say [in the New York Times] about the whole debate. He asks what does it say about a
society if people were able to debate a thing such as, say, rape. Does
it really signal moral superiority
that people actually talk about torture and express their moral
indignation? He asks, would you want to live in a society where a
similar debate on rape was taking place, where people actually had to
take a position on rape?
