This is a bit of Meta-Comment about commenting:

As you noted in your post, people in the original thread objected to choosing torture for reasons that basically reduce to the "non-additive badness" position. For me, that position is motivated by the badness of torture you described in your post. So I read the other commenters charitably to include consideration of the sheer wrongness of torture. I simply can't see why one would pick dust-specks without that consideration.

Now you say I'm reading them too charitably. I've been told before that I do that too much. I'm not sure I agree.