Arms dealers justify torture sales by comparing them favorably to napalm sales.

Evidence

Advantageous comparison also is a handy self-exonerative device for the lethal methods that are used. The renegade CIA agent and international weapons merchant Frank Terpil justified his sale of torture equipment: “by comparison with Dow Chemical selling napalm”—which the United States used as a weapon against the Vietnamese people (Thomas, 1982). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2150