People who talked about how 24 and Jack Bauer showed that torture was good actually included a goddamned supreme court justice and I think the SecDef? The Bush Jr admin was openly fans of the show.

Oh, and the cast were invited to have a panel at a conference for the fucking Heritage Foundation!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P52G4Kyq5M A look at the 24 world and it's insane violence by Jon Bois

Yeah, the “justified torture” is when I had to stop watching.

The jack bauer power hour is a strong memory of my childhood.

Yes, it was sickening to watch a lot of people - even self-proclaimed libertarians – flip on torture during that period. There was a stark reversal from the 90s where the War Crimes Act was unanimously passed because back then anti-torture laws were thought of as affecting enemies like the Viet Cong, which lasted less than a decade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Crimes_Act_of_1996