Absolutely Un-fucking-believable Polling Results

I find this appalling:

Many adults in the United States believe their federal government should not endorse the practice of inflicting pain as a means of getting information, according to a poll by YouGov/Polimetrix released by The Economist. 49 per cent of respondents think it is unacceptable to use torture when interrogating suspected terrorists.

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Is it acceptable for the U.S. government to use torture when interrogating suspected terrorists?

Yes	34%
No	49%
Not sure	17%

Notice the phrasing of the question, which specifically asks the respondent if he or she endorses torture. Only 49% appear to understand that torture is wrong ... a full third of the people polled are fine with attaching electrodes to someone's testicles ... and nearly one in five "aren't sure."

So this poll basically finds that 51% of Americans don't know that torture is wrong ...