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04-20-2009, 09:52 PM
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Is waterboarding torture?
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04-20-2009, 10:05 PM
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This question is an exercise in intellectual honesty.
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04-21-2009, 04:07 PM
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Gosh, not a single person who doesn't think it is torture.
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04-21-2009, 04:32 PM
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04-23-2009, 09:36 PM
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Gosh, we can't get a single person here to say that waterboarding is merely "harsh", and not torture.
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04-23-2009, 10:14 PM
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For an act to be torture, it must do more than inflict the fear of death or serious pain.
I don't use the label "torture" lightly, which is one reason this poll is bunk, as is the chest-beating trying to get admissions that this-and-that is torture. It assumes way too much. Torture according to what? US law? International law? The hovering Moral Code? The light of Christ? For how I define torture, waterboarding is not. But I'm sure I'd attach many of the adjectives to the act as Mike Watersboarding would.
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04-23-2009, 10:17 PM
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do you think it is a war crime?
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04-23-2009, 10:23 PM
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04-23-2009, 10:30 PM
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04-23-2009, 11:05 PM
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That term seems to be invented by the winners to execute the leaders of the opposition. Are you asking is torture wrong? Yes. Are you asking if those who do it, should receive extra punishment as opposed to those who merely kill? Are you using the term to state, somebody maybe exceeding the rules of war as generally accepted by "civilized" nations? I'm not naive to the term but its usaage seems quite political and not always motivated by the good will of men.
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