OK, FINE… MORE TORTURE LINKS. Reason’s blog. Volokhic response. But I thought the necessity defense is specifically prohibited for torture, by treaty. I learned this today, from Jim Henley.

Lynn Gazis-Sax. Powerful historically-oriented post, lots of quotes from victims of torture; she addresses many of the attempts to limit torture that I dissed in my big slippery-slope post, but she comes at it from a less utilitarian stance than I did. (I stuck all my practical concerns in that post and my why-it’s-always-wrong points in the other posts.)

Sheep-Free Zone. (Points for blog title, anyway…)