Psychological studies and experiments have shown that about 50% of any population will participate in administering torture when told to do so by authority figures.

That means there is a 50-50 likelyhood that you are willing and capable of torture under the right circumstances even if you think differently at this moment.

If you have noticed that there is a lot of cruel people out there you can see why. There is about 10& who always take an evil delight in torturing but the other 40% feel they are just following orders, but after awhile even more of that 40% begin to enjoy their authority to inflict cruelty pain and even death.

Politicians that preach that there are two Americas or that the JEWS are to blame for Germany's economic woes or that the HUTU's are to be executed or that the Sunnis are evil and the Shiites good and vice versa, are all using the same proven basic human failings to do their neighbor harm.

By year 5 of the George Bush years we came damn close to a regieme that supported harm and violence against the "less patriotic" Americans.