Putting the Ball in the Torturer's Court

While Dogbert may be hell-bent on world domination, his nominal creator Scott Adams isn't quite so ambitious. He's taken to blogging and now to the opinion pages of the Washington Post. This weekend in the Post, Adams relates how he has come to doubt the future of torture. For Adams, the moral issues should be put on hold until those in favor of torture answer a very practical questions: does it work? Adams points out that there's been no good evidence that it does, which is sort of surprising given how extensive it has been throughout human history.

Adams's column has spawned an interesting discussion over at the Volokh Conspiracy.