On 26/11/2006, at 3:15 AM, jdiebremse wrote:
This is where language can be imprecise. Torture can mean a
number of
things, such as cutting off digits. We're not sanctioning
that. We
are sanctioning certain practices, which many reasonable people
consider
to be torture - but which does not seem to be universally
recognized as
torture.
Like "Waterboarding". Which the US sought prosecutions for the use of
as torture during wars in the last century, but is now sanctioning.
There's no question that we are walking
right up to the line, and a decently strong case that we are crossing
that line, but I'm not sure that any previous generation has
hestitated
to walk right up to the line and occasionally cross it in times of
threat either.
So people were wrong before, and that justifies being wrong now? And
you wonder why we're looking on in horror from elsewhere in the world.
Charlie.
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