In the case of abortion, I&#x27;ll grudgingly admit that reasonable people can differ, at least in cases of rape or incest; in life-of-the-mother cases (pregnancy in the Fallopian tube), the other side might even be right.<p>But on torture? I&#x27;m not willing to make any concession to people who think that hanging a Japanese general for waterboarding US soldiers is fine, while leaving a US president entirely unpunished for waterboarding actual and suspected terrorists is not fine. Either we owe the Axis (and especially that general&#x27;s heirs) some enormous apologies, or we need a few trials of a certain past political administration.<p>I tend be a fan of bright lines in general. If you don&#x27;t know that some things are wrong (and, therefore, that any line of reasoning that leads to them has a problem with it somewhere), how do you know when you&#x27;ve gone astray?