Tortuous Fallacies 0
See Andrew Sullivan. A nugget:
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The torture of Winston Smith (in Orwell’s 1984–ed.) is designed specifically to force him to say that two and two equals five, just as the point of the “enhanced interrogation techniques” once used on John McCain was to get him to say things that were untrue. And it worked. If it really works, torture will force someone actually to believe that two and two equals five.
But torturing was never about the truth. Torturing is their pornography.
