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This post about the practical argument for banning torture as policy ends like so:

It’s a lesson as old as time – unchecked executive power is made to be abused.

I think that's just right. The whole purpose of unchecked power is abuse.  If there is no potential for abuse, there's no need to keep that potential in check.

Thought I had something more to say, but maybe not.  Good post, anyway.  The one I linked to, I mean.  Not this one.

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