Just Punishing a Kidnapper
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One "civilized" mans torture , is another mans punishment.
. "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies;"
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Using the Declaration of Independence as justification for torture could be the lowest-energy take of the millennium so far
And this no-absolute-right-and-wrong, "one man's torture is another man's whatever" thing is similar to leftist amorality bullshit. Stringing someone up by the wrists with their arms behind their back, slowly dislocating the shoulder joints, by itself constitutes torture, if words mean what they really mean and not whatever we want them to.
A forty five year Missionary from Scotland once told me that when he arrived in Zimbabwe in 1947 he was trying to save souls. He said that it took him 15 years before he realized they "were not immoral but rather pre-moral." So he spent the next 30 years teaching hygiene ,irrigation ect. He only left because so many of the Tribe defending him and his family were being killed. He was Bwana (chief justice of supreme court to his King)
Justifying the King of England for 250 years after the declaration seems a greater torture.