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Originally posted by Bulbus:
I was just thinking about the Book theory post up here, and back on War Stories, and realized that Book doesn't seem to hold a preacher's traditional views on things like torture. When he's describing the state of River's mental scars, there's almost a bit of admiration for the job the Alliance did on her; the thoroughness, the utter ruthlessness.

Now the Bible is pretty clear about torture and things like that (though it doesn't follow it's own advice from time to time, and neither do some of it's readers...) but Book didn't seem to mind, which got me to thinkin', does he not follow every creedo in it, or has traditional morality in Firefly changed that much?

Now, we know that in Firefly, eastern and western philosophies have been melded together, but how much? In ancient China, and some could argue, modern, torture was an acceptable, even completely natural, practise. Though to be fair, there aren't many societies which can't claim that.

What does everyone else think? Is this moral thick skin just a remenant of Book's past, or does torture not mean as much as it used?

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