Torture Advocacy

Where I differ from basic Marxism is a belief in quasi-objective spiritual forces, not all of which are inherently benign.  In part, they are a sort of parasitic side effect of struggling finite entities,  insofar as they as an aggregate constitute a sort of force that is more than the sum of its parts and to varying degrees are at variance with the will and intent of the individual agents that constitute it.   I believe there is even yet more to it than that, but I don't want to get any more deeply into metaphysical and theological waters

By way of a sort of shorthand, insofar as the leaders and the spokespersons of the Republican Party are speaking out *in favor* of torture as an instrument of U.S. policy that is as close to a real exemplar of possession by St. Paul's "powers and principalities" 

as I can name...