Quote:Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. Many of those are unconsious hypocrite - they talk about respecting other cultures but at heart they believe, and act, as if everyone was like them, as if bin Laden was no different from the Archbishop of Canterbury. They do not comprehend the nature of a fanatic. Nor does declaring evil a null concept make it so.
The only conclusion I can come to is that those behind it deliberately and maliciously wish to strip us of the tools we need to prosecute a war against fanatics who want us all DEAD and will stop at nothing to get what they want.
As for 'Far beyond normal', it is using Buffy axioms which don't work well in crossovers. In Buffy virtually every authority group is corrupt or incompetent, sometimes both. Buffy and friends are the only effective group with a working moral compass, and everyone else must defer to them.
Take this assumption into crossovers and you get SG1 (or Dumbledore, or even Gandalf) meekly accepting Buffy and friend's moral superiority, as here, but SG1 et al are themselves heroes. To have them defer to Buffy on their home ground, with no more than a token attempt to question her moral authority, shows no respect for their characters
I find it particularly annoying when post-season 7 Willow shows up all glowy-eyed to lay down the law. Too often, it makes her seem no better than a playground bully, and it is sheer hubris. The brightest star can fall, blinded by its own light.
[However, I will note the same author as handled these same issues much better in another fic, The Bitter Truth
Torture is wrong, but sometimes there are no good choices left. Sometimes we can only choose the lesser evil, which is acceptable provided we do so reluctantly, never forgetting it is evil or coming to enjoy it.
NID have crossed the line; SG1 haven't, and never would.
Given a choice between torturing a Goa'uld and the enslavement of the entire earth, I'd go for the red hot pokers every time, and a bottle of vodka for afterwards.