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Comment author: PlaidX 19 May 2011 09:52:03PM 4 points [-]

I haven't read TOO much mainstream philosophy, but in what I have, I don't recall even a single instance of torture being used to illustrate a point.

Maybe that's what's holding them back from being truly rational?