Torture and Gamergate
The Senate report on torture came out a few days ago. Unsurprisingly, it said we tortured people, sometimes for no good reason. A number of people, including (perhaps shockingly, such loons as Ted Beale) pointed to this article which said that willingness to torture became a "litmus test of seriousness with respect to the fight against terrorism
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“without incurring any risk to themselves.” Note the semantics - you're ascribing poltroonery to armchair warriors that might not be the case.
[One of the complaints made against, what is it, Grand Theft Auto, is that it's basically a sim training regimen for gangbangers, and there was a case a few years ago where a guy did in fact “take it to the streets” doing just what he'd learned, until he ran out of ammo…]
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