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Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

"Iain Banks: Even at my age I still have something to prove". Interview With Maxton Walker, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2009.
Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.